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Baltimore, home of the misdemeanor homicide.
— Det. Meldrick Lewis · Homicide: Life on the Street
Behind the line May contain spoilers.
Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker offers a bitter civic slogan, calling Baltimore the place where killing is treated as a minor offence. The exaggeration suggests homicide there is handled as routine, almost trivial, and the dark humour carries a note of weary cynicism about how cheaply lives seem to be weighed.
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