Jay C. Landsman is an American

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and

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. He was featured in

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's 1991 book about the

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homicide unit '' Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets''. According to the book, Landsman was the last of his family line on the Baltimore Police Department. His brother Jerry was a detective in the agency who left in the 1980s and their father was the department's first

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district commander.

Acting career

The book was later developed into the television series '' Homicide: Life on the Street''. He was the inspiration for the fictional character

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on that show as well as a character named Jay Landsman on the television series ''

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'', created by Simon (although the Landsman character is not played by Landsman himself, but by

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). Landsman portrayed himself in a brief appearance on the HBO miniseries '' The Corner'' and, later, appeared in ''The Wire'', playing the character of Lieutenant Dennis Mello. He appeared in season five of the food and travel show '' No Reservations'', when host Anthony Bourdain stopped in Baltimore on a tour of America's

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Police career

In December 2015, Landsman was promoted to lieutenant in the Baltimore County Police Department. Landsman retired from the city's police force in 1994, when he joined the county. In 2004, he and his son Jay C. Landsman Jr. were simultaneously promoted from corporal to sergeant in the department. By 2015, Landsman Jr. was a captain, having commanded Precinct 6 since April 2014, and by September, 2017- when he was appointed Commander of the Technical Services Division at Baltimore County Police Headquarters- a Major. As of March 2016, by which time he was a Lieutenant in the Pikesville precinct, all four of Landsman's children were serving with him in the Baltimore County Police Department, as was one granddaughter. His nephew, Richard Landsman, also served in Baltimore as a Lieutenant, as did other members of the Landsman family.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Landsman, Jay Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Jewish American male actors Male actors from Baltimore American police detectives American male television actors Baltimore Police Department officers 21st-century American Jews