god help you if you don't have something to say. >> let's understand each other. i'm in a western district. i'm not a narco. i don't dirty people because i don't give a [ bleep ] about a possession charge. i'm murder police. i care about the bodies. >> david simon was a newspaper reporter in baltimore. he spent a year embedded with the baltimore homicide unit to write a book. he and ed burns, who was a police officer, got together and said, what if we tell the whole story of the death of the american city, the futility of the war on drugs through the eyes of cops? of drug dealers. >> i've got the best territory and no kind of product. >> i got the best product but could stand a little more territory. >> of teachers, of politicians. just make the entire city into the character itself. >> you follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. but you start to follow the