In the Annapolis Area, Delbert Maurice Owens stabbed his estranged wife, Andterri Ora Thompson, and himself in front of their 11-year-old son. Both adults were flown to Shock Trauma in Baltimore.
See your tax dollars at work and scare the kids straight from 9 a.m. to noon today at a free tour of Baltimore County's new jail at Kenilworth and Bosley!
How did Gilbert Sapperstein, who pleaded guilty in May to conspiracy, bribery and theft in connection with a scheme to defraud the city school system of $3.3 million, get his jail time cut in half?
Neighbors in the York Road corridor have started a crime watch listserv. Also in the Messenger, stolen mopeds, CDs and wallets.
In White Marsh an officer is on routine administrative leave after shooting a gun-toting car thief from Essex in the elbow.
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People become ENTITLED to early release for good behavior? Fascinating. And here I thought good (or at least lawful and compliant) behavior was required.
Does my tax bill get cut in half because I paid it? It seems to me that if we expect that people will behaviorally comply and they are entitled to , let's say, a 25% reduction for 'good behavior', well then we need to up all the minimum sentences by 20% so that the reduced sentence is... what we originally intended. Call your delegates in Annapolis, ask for a penalty hike.
The nonsense around this place!
Frederick Ave. - sounds like the St. Valentines Day Massacre all over again.
You know the routine about "if a tree falls in the forest but no one is there to hear it."?.... well, in Baltimore I guess the story is, "if a pedestrian gets killed by a murdered man driving a car, and there's no perp. to take the rap for the manslaughter... was any crime ever committed?"
Come on people, require that your legislators provide for long-term incarceration of these violent repeat offenders. Personally, I think that a state of emergency should be declared in Baltimore City by Annapolis until the murder rate is down by at least half. During the emergency, penalties for violent crime are doubled and a curfew is in effect after sunset for all active, supervised Parole and Probation cases except for going to work or medical emergency. Why should Annapolis step in? Because the administration in Baltimore will never, ever do its job. These mayors should have been called before City Council and asked to resign years ago. Murder in this town is tolerated.
This on the new jail in Balto. Co.:
When the county's new jail opens in Towson, one unarmed correctional officer will sit at a desk surrounded by about 56 inmates in each cellblock. The arrangement called direct supervision is meant to reduce inmate fights.
OK, but here in the City the ratio of Parole & Probation cases at large in the community to patrol officers is about 30 total, or 120-150 on any given shift, so an officer is in appreciably better company in detention than on the street??? Only in Charm City, hon, or maybe, like, Detroit, since New Orleans is empty. Oh, BTW, anyone notice that 50% of evacuees relocated by government from New Orleans have criminal records? Great, let's create some more mega-ghettoes in the cities foolish, and kind-hearted, enough to welcome disaster victims.
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