Oscar Requer

{{Infobox police officer

|name = Oscar L. Requer

|image =Oscar Requer.jpg

|caption = Oscar Requer inside the Baltimore Police Headquarters on March 22, 2013

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|badgenumber =

|birth_place =

|nickname = Rick
Bunk

|department = Baltimore Police Department

|service = United States

|serviceyears = 1964-2007

|rank = Detective

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Oscar "Rick" Requer is a former detective of the Baltimore Police Department.

Requer joined the department in 1964 as a Western District patrolman who would eventually move into the department's Homicide Unit.

{{cite book

|last=Simon

|first=David

|title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

|origyear=1991

|edition=4th

|year=2006

|publisher=Owl Books

|isbn=0-8050-8075-9

|pages=[https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1/page/641 641]

|chapter=Post Mortem

|quote=Rick 'The Bunk' Requer left to man the department's retirement services bureau, though his homicide incarnation lives on in Wendell Pierce's portrayal of the legendary Bunk Moreland on The Wire, right down to the ubiquitous cigar.

}}

He was featured working under Sergeant Jay Landsman and Lieutenant Gary D'Addario whose Homicide unit was featured in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book.

{{cite book

|last=Simon

|first=David

|title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

|origyear=1991

|edition=4th

|year=2006

|publisher=Owl Books

|isbn=0-8050-8075-9

|page=[https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1/page/ Inset]

}}

An African American, Requer's investigative skills earned him a position in the BPD's Criminal Investigation Division during a time period in which African American officers were still subject to racial harassment in the district roll call rooms.

{{cite book

|last=Simon

|first=David

|title=Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets

|origyear=1991

|edition=4th

|year=2006

|publisher=Owl Books

|isbn=0-8050-8075-9

|page=[https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1/page/253 253]

|chapter=five

|quote="Requer is the veteran investigator in his squad and one of the most tenured black detectives in the homicide unit; he made his way up to CID at a time when black officers were still hearing racial jokes in the district roll call rooms."

}}

Requer would later man the retirement services bureau before retiring in 2007

{{cite web

|work=Ever on the Watch: The History of the Baltimore Police Department

|last=Hackley

|first=W.M.

|title=Retirements

|url=http://mysite.verizon.net/vzesdp09/baltimorepolicehistorybywmhackley2/id82.html}}

and would provide inspiration for fictional Detective Bunk Moreland of the HBO drama series The Wire.

A character named "Oscar Requer" appeared in the "Transitions" episode on the fifth season of The Wire. The fictional Oscar Requer (played by Roscoe Orman), was a patrolman working a night shift and a former partner of detective Lester Freamon's.