words that have been said

Bunk: You could go a long way in this country killing black folk. Young males, especially. Misdemeanor homicides.
McNulty: If Marlo was killing white women—
Freamon: White children—
Bunk: Tourists—
McNulty: One white, ex-cheerleader tourist missing in Aruba.
Bunk: Trouble is, this ain’t Aruba, bitch.
Freamon: You think that if 300 white people were killed in this city every year, they wouldn’t send the 82nd Airborne?
-From an episode of The Wire (“Unconfirmed Reports”)

We are fifteen days into the new year and there have been 13 murders in Baltimore, Maryland. The city’s homicides are covered in the weekly column, Murder Ink. A fucking weekly column for an American city with less than 640,000 people — dedicated solely to those who have had their lives shortened at the hand of a fellow human being.

Murders in other cities last year: 344 in Detroit, 332 in Philadelphia, 124 in Oakland. These are improved numbers — All these cities had more homicides the previous year.