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Detective Edward Burns (retired) served in the Baltimore Police Department's
Drug Control Unit. Edward Burns is a retired 20-year veteran of the Baltimore, Maryland, Police Department, where he specialized
in homicide investigation, and worked extensively on inner-city drug gangs. After retiring from the police department, he
began teaching in Baltimore middle and high schools. He has co-authored the book The Corner with David Simon, creator of the television program Homicide, and co-created
the television series The Wire with Simon.
According to one review, The Corner, “is a powerful book, a window on
aspects of America most people would rather ignore. To their great credit, the authors--David Simon wrote Homicide, the basis
for the popular television show; Edward Burns is a former Baltimore police officer, now a public school teacher--refuse to
sensationalize their subject or make its people into stereotypes. For a year the two hung out in a West Baltimore neighborhood
that was a center of the drug trade. At the center of the narrative is the McCullough family--DeAndre, age 15, and his drug-addicted
parents, Gary and Fran. While reading The Corner, there are times when we pity them, times when they make us angry”
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