Above the three right hand sections is a letterplate bearing the name of Lieutenant Robert Stanton, who commands the homicide unit's second shift. To the immediate left, below the name of Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, are the three remaining sections. Underneath the nameplates of the two lieutenants, affixed to the top of each section, is the name of a detective sergeant: McLarney, Landsman and Nolan for D'Addario's shift: Childs, Lamartina, and Barrick for Stanton's command
Below each sergeant's nameplate are brief listings of dead people, the first homicide victims of the year's first month. The names of victims in closed cases are written in black felt marker; the names of victims in open investigations, in red. To the left of each victim's name is a case number - 88001 for the year's first murder, 88002 for the second, and so on. To the right of each victim's name is a letter or letters - A for Bowman, B for Garvey, C for McAllister - which correspond to the names of the assigned detectives listed at the bottom of each section.
A sergeant or lieutenant trying to match a homicide with its primary detective, or the reverse, can scan the sections of the white rectangle and in a matter of moments determine that Tom Pellegrini is working the murder of Rudy Newsome. He can also determine, by nothing that Newsome's name is in red ink, that the case is still open. For this reason, supervisors in the homicide unit regard the white rectangle as an instrument necessary to assure accountability and clerical precision. For this reason, too, detectives in the unit regard the rectangle as affliction, an unforgiving creation that has endured far beyond the expectations of the now-retired sergeants and long-dead lieutenants who created it. The detectives call it, simply, The Board.
In the time that it takes the coffeepot to fill, shift commander Lieutenant Gary D'Addario - otherwise known to his men as Dee, LTD, or simply as His Eminence - can approach The Board as a pagan priest might approach the temple of the sun god, scan the hieroglyphic scrawl of red and black below his name, and determine who among his three sergeants has kept his commandments and who has gone astray. He can further check the coded letters beside the name of each case and make the same determination about his fifteen detectives. The Board reveals all: Upon its acetate is writ the story of past and present. Who has grown fat on domestic murders witnessed by half a dozen family members; who has starved on a drug assassination in a vacant rowhouse. Who has reaped the bountiful harvest of a murder-suicide complete with a posthumous note of confession; who has tasted the bitter fruit of an unidentified victim, bound and gagged in the trunk of an airport rental car.
Note: The above text is shamelessly taken from David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets. It is taken without permission, but is used as a lure to get people to check out the book. Yes, it is that good.
Note: Episode: "Identity Crisis"
Air Date: April 30, 1999
| BALLARD | BAYLISS | FALSONE | GHARTY | LEWIS | MUNCH | SHEPPARD | STIVERS | WARRANTS | ||
| 002 UNGER 046 FINAN 043 LINKOUS 062 BAKER 074 EHLERS 083 RABER 111 DAMRON 130 WAGNER 150 LUDWIG 172 BILLINGS 207 DEPPMEIER 224 SCHADE 237 ROTH 265 HUSE |
036 HUFTNAM 039 FENNELL 044 NEALY 059 DOE 063 CURRY 073 NOAKES 094 GLAESER 126 JEAGER 145 DUDEK 160 PALMER 178 ALSTON 210 SCHEIB 239 BELVINS 247 LUTHRO |
021
ALVAREZ 037 OGDEN 038 FLETCHER 058 DEACON 065 FERGUSON 086 OSMAN 114 CORT 137 PERRY 162 McGARVEY 187 PITT 202 MOSS 231 DAWKINS 234 LINDE |
001
LYONS 023 McCUSKER 042 GELLER 060 ROOKS 076 MEEKINS 097 DABNEY 118 HARTER 140 MARSH 167 CAVARETTA 182 UHLER 190 CYMEK 200 WILLIAMS 232 CAREY, L 233 CAREY, Z |
009
CUTTER 010 GILL 011 HANCOCK 024 SMART 041 JOHNSON 066 WALKER 107 QUILLEN 129 REYNOLDS 147 LUCKEN 169 FEENAN 196 FELDER 214 MONTGOMERY 215 FELDMAN 263 CORBETT |
003 RUSSELL 012 RIDGELY 044 WASIKOWSKI 047 REEVES 082 DILLION 089 McBRIDE 120 MICKLE 142 GELMAN 155 EBERHARDT 218 REBER 242 EDWARDS 267 MACK |
004 BLOWEN 077 SIEGEL 078 COUNCILL 097 KNELL 104 ROBBINS 133 PRESTON 149 COMBS 163 CORSON 177 TALLEY 194 LIPPMAN 205 CRAMER 249 KEIB 251 RAEBURN 258 SMITH |
002 DEATON 026 SAMMONS 046 BECKMAN 061 NEUMAN 075 DERME 100 ERNEST 123 BRODER 143 GRAY 158 DAWSON 175 LANE 180 CANTY 212 BURKE 221 HERSH 246 McNABB 261 JOYCE |
SULEK CLANTON FORLOW HEBRON LANKFORD BLECKINGER ZORBACH BARROWS SALAS LENNET TEGELER XXXXX XXXXX XXXXX XX XXXXX XXX XXXXX XXXXX XXXX |
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| 043 KEELTY 052 HOLTHAM 068 RAMSEY 187 KIDD 208 MYERS 253 NOBLESMITH |
024 REIDY 074 HEGAILY 093 GAYNOR 199 GIARDELLO 274 HINSON |
035 DUNNE 062 KILLENBECK 113 CORNELL 133 RAINES 175 VAZQUEZ |
038 NUGENT 104 KEASLING 123 PEDRICK 206 HUTTON 220 KIDWELL 228 KNIGHT 251 DOE 272 DARUSZKA |
020 BOSWORTH 080 ABBOT 115 BIHARI 155 NULL 172 EWING 184 LENZ |
013 INTENGAN 031 LEONE 065 DOE 120 SELLNER 167 VILZ 170 COWAN 223 COLOSANTE |
166 WAWL 194 UNTI 202 GIPSON 212 DOE 214 MACON 224 HEINZ 228 WEHANER 253 HENNESEY |
057 BENBENEK 081 REIS 122 CRUSSE 151 BENSINGER 180 MALIN |
The information contained in this table is thoughtfully provided by JimKing@aol.com. Jim does this on his own time and is subject to his interpretation of the glimpses of the board that we see each week. Thanks Jim! And thanks for letting me put it up here! If you want to see the "offical" board page, check it out here
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