Terrence McLarney

Terrence Patrick "Terry" McLarney is a lieutenant assigned to the Baltimore Police Department's Southwestern (8th) District.

McLarney is best known as a longtime city detective, who from 2008 through 2011 was the commanding officer of Baltimore's Homicide Unit.

Early life and education McLarney is a native of the suburbs of Washington, D.C., and an alumnus of American University (SPA/BA '75). In 1981, McLarney graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law with a Juris Doctor degree.

Early Baltimore Police career McLarney joined the Department in 1976 and was assigned as a patrolman to the city's Central (1st) District. Later he was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to the Police Department's Western (7th) District. In 1985, McLarney survived an incident where he was shot in the abdomen while patrolling the Western District.

Relationship to David Simon's Homicide: Life on the Street In 1988, McLarney along with Detective Sergeant Roger Nolan and Detective Sergeant Jay Landsman were each heading individual squads of detectives under the command of Detective Lieutenant Gary D'Addario whose Homicide unit was featured in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book. McLarney has also appeared on the commentary describing the production of HBO's The Wire, another work of David Simon displaying the Baltimore Police Department.