Donald "Don" Worden is a retired Baltimore Police Department detective who was featured in David Simon's non-fiction book about the homicide unit, Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets (1991) and provided the inspiration for the Homicide: Life on the Street television series character Stanley Bolander, played by Ned Beatty.
Biography Worden, a native of Baltimore's Hampden neighborhood,: "I'm just a poor, dumb white boy from Hampden, trying to make his way through this world and into the next." joined the Baltimore Police Department in 1962,: "the department had been his home since 1962." and had worked in the department's Northwestern district: "He had gone downtown after more than a decade in the Northwest district…" before becoming a Homicide Detective. Nicknamed, "The Big Man",: "The Big Man sits…" he was a veteran member of Sergeant Terry McLarney's Homicide squad working under Shift Lieutenant Gary D'Addario.
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