Ed Norris Show
Mark Hughes and I will be appearing on the Ed Norris Show on 105.7 FM Tuesday morning; we're told there will be two segments, around 6:10 and 8:10 a.m.
Norris, of course, is the former Baltimore police commissioner who played a small part as a homicide detective on "The Wire." Here's his character's bio from the show's Web page. Norris said he recently went to England, and though his character only made brief appearances on the show, he was recognized frequently.
As a police commissioner, Norris oversaw one of the biggest year-to-year drops in homicides in recent memory. He was at the helm in 2000 when the city finally got below the 300-mark in homicides, dropping from 305 to 261 in one year. A similar drop in following years wasn't in the cards, as the homicide total only fell by eight slayings over the next two years before creeping back up under his successors.
Sound familiar? Current police commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III oversaw a drop from 282 homicides to 234 in 2008, but the city is on pace this year to record only slightly less than that. Still, any downward trend is a good thing, and Baltimore hasn't seen totals this low since the 1980s.
Comments
A Great Police Commissioner? sure. But his radio show is just hours of meaningless drivel. This is the same mind that served the Police Dept so well? what the hell happened?
Posted by: Ray Barcia | November 2, 2009 3:55 PM
Meeting our history revising, ex-con ex-commissioner? Well, if one wants to become familiar with this city's crime I guess it makes sense to go right to the criminals.
Posted by: CharmedCity | November 2, 2009 7:15 PM
I missed the airing of the Ed Norris show this a.m. I thought the show would air tonight. Is there any way I can listen to the show now?
The producer told us they would be getting a podcast of the show up on their site, though I don't see it just yet. Check later at http://www.1057thefan.com/pages/219796.php
Posted by: joy teitelbaum | November 3, 2009 10:20 AM