Ed Burns is an Emmy Award winning television writer. He usually works with his writing partner David Simon. They have collaborated on "The Corner" and "The Wire". Burns is a former Baltimore detective and public school teacher and often draws upon this experience for his writing. Wikipedia
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Writer and producer Ed Burns draws on his experience as a former Baltimore detective to create the acclaimed HBO series The Wire, now in its fourth season. It's a crime drama with a central theme of surveillance technology used to capture drug dealers. www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6524743
