The security director there, a former Baltimore Police Department officer, reassures him that Hopkins is a perfect place to work security after retiring from the department.
The building remained in use by the Baltimore Police Department until the mid-1980s, when it was sold to a local non-profit group.
Stringer plans to regain control of the Barksdale organization by sending Avon back to prison, betraying the location of his safehouse to Baltimore Police major Howard "Bunny" Colvin.
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He is based on Baltimore Police Department Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, a member of the BPD homicide unit described in David Simon's book Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets which served as the inspiration for the series as a whole.
Carcetti is idealistic and ambitious, and has the backing of the local Democrats in Maryland's 1st congressional district as well as Baltimore Police major Stan Valchek.