by Gregg Chadwick From Birth - Baltimore April 2015 Photo by Lara Davidson * " Schoolteachers, Johns Hopkins employees, film crew people, kids, retirees, everybody went to the city jail. If you think I’m exaggerating, look it up. " - David Simon on Baltimore's anguish. "Are you going to tell me the story of my life, or am I going to tell you yours." - Baltimore Resident to me in a coffee shop near City Recreation Pier in the Fells Point neighborhood in Baltimore in the late 1990's. Homicide: Life on the Street's police department scenes were all shot there . Eddie Gray's death at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department is sadly not an isolated event. To understand the current situation in Baltimore, it pays to read the thoughts of David Simon on Baltimore’s Anguish: Freddie Gray, the drug war, and the decline of “real policing” in The Marshall Project. David Simon's history with Charm Cit...