Wednesday, September 28, 2005

September 28

The blogger will be away until late next week. Please leave links to stories that readers might "enjoy" in the "comments" department.

Here's a good one from the Sun archives about the differences in the application of the death penalty between the city and the county from 2002.
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

According to to Murder Ink columnist Ditkoff

http://www.citypaper.com/news/story.asp?id=10946

the death of local artist Myron 'Terry' Koenig has now been classified as a homicide. I guess that's because he was *killed* before someone set fire to his house. No, he wasn't a drug dealer or a fence. He was a perfectly nice, ordinary neighbor. What this means, folks, is that it could perfectly well happen to you, too. The fifth murder this year in a very small inner-city neighborhood full of hoodlums. I wonder, will the Mayor *ever* require that the Commissioner fill the 150 vacancies in the police force, or should all the decent people just move out of this horrible city. About a block from the scene, I called 911 because my neighbor's door had been kicked in and was open. The police came and responded "We see no sure sign of a crime. Maybe he just left it open." With a busted door jam? I don't think so. The officer was upset at being called to respond to what he called a 'trifling crime'. Break-in. Trifling? Not where I come from. If Baltimore thinks that break-ins are sorta OK, then your population is gonna drop a whole lot once the housing bubble bursts. Baltimore Believe? No,... Baltimore We Leave.

Wed Sep 28, 12:59:00 PM EDT
Anonymous said...

It is now official: assaulting a police officer in Maryland is a crime. Like, duh!


http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-md.assault28sep28,1,5276508.story

Thu Sep 29, 06:32:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

An easy to use to use tool for comparing crime levels here in Baltimore with those in other, generally better, cities may be found at:



http://www.homestore.com/Move/Tools/CrimeLab.asp?poe=homestore

Sun Oct 02, 08:48:00 PM EDT

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