Roger Nolan

{{Short description|American police officer}}

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|name = Roger Nolan

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|birth_place = West Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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|known_for = Homicide Squad Supervisor featured in "Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets"

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|service = Baltimore Police Department

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|department = Homicide Unit

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|serviceyears = 1963 – 2009 (46 years)

|status = Retired

|rank = Sergeant

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Roger Nolan is a former sergeant of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit. He is notable for being a Homicide Squad Supervisor, alongside fellow sergeants Terry McLarney and Jay Landsman, under the command of Lieutenant Gary D'Addario, whose work was featured in David Simon's Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets book. A native of West Baltimore and a former Marine, Nolan joined the department in 1963 {{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/273 273] |chapter=Five |quote=A product of the West Baltimore ghetto with 25 years on the force.... }} working in the State's Attorney's 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 |page=[https://archive.org/details/homicideyearonki00simo_1/page/274 274] |chapter=Five |quote=before his testimony, he had been a sergeant assigned directly to the state's attorney's investigative unit. }} and the Western, Eastern, and Northwestern Districts,{{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/273 273–274] |chapter=Five |quote=Nolan had never been a homicide detective,in fact he had spent much of his career in patrol, working as a sector supervisor in the Northwestern and Eastern districts.... }}{{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/274 274] |chapter=Five |quote=In 1973, almost half of the Western District....Nolan was working plainclothes under Watkins' Command..... }} before becoming a supervisor in the department's Homicide Unit.

Nolan retired a day before his 70th birthday in 2009.{{cite news |url=https://www.baltimoresun.com/2009/10/25/old-school-officer-leaving-quietly/ |title=Old-school Officer Leaving Quietly |last=Hermann |first=Peter |work=The Baltimore Sun |publisher=Tribune Publishing |date=2009-07-25 |access-date=2016-05-17}}