Dos hombres mataron a una mujer en el condado de Somerset.
A man stabbed to death in Dundalk Friday night was identified as 20-year-old Gregory Joseph Takacs.
Butterfingers! A 25 year-old gang member and murder defendant was mistakenly released in PG County.
Enviro-crime that makes you go hmm: traces of pharmaceuticals in the runoff from the Blue Plains sewage treatment plant, which serves VA and DC as well as Montgomery and PG counties, has created mutant fish and bivavles with "bizarre sexual traits".
Speaking of MoCo, a 17-year-old employee of Jerry's Subs was stabbed during a robbery attempt.
So MoCo isn't perfect, but overall the county's crime is down 12 percent and it has excellent schools, and the powers that be are supposedly adding police and correctional officers. And Silver Spring has been cleaned up (nowhere near the challenge of Baltimore City, but it's something). Because of that, this site is endorsing Doug Duncan for dem. candidate/governor. BTW does anyone know-- if O'Malley loses the gubernatorial thing, will he still be mayor? Or will we be electing a new mayor at the same time? And if so, who's running?
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My neighbors have notified me of a disturbing trend in Baltimore City police conduct. Officers responding to property crime apparently ask whether the owner is going to file an insurance claim and condition the writing of an incident report on the insurance claim. That is, if you tell them you're not filing a claim (probably because you don't want premiums to rise), they file no report, so the crime stats go down. It happened to me and I didn't like it, but I figured it was an isolated event with one officer. Now I'm hearing it from everyone in my neighborhood. Folks, this is why crime is 'down' and we don't have patrol cops deployed in our neighborhoods. If they don't want to file a report, you call your councilman.
Dear Readers, If anything of yous get stolen or vandalized or you get assaulted, always get a copy of the police report! You may change your mind about filing a claim, and/or you may later discover damage you didn't notice at first. And it's your responsibility to ask for a report-- the cop may have been part of a vast number-altering conspiracy ... or s/he may have just thought your broken side mirror was not worth the time, especially if you weren't going to bother filing a claim.
Clarification: the house was broken into, cop inquired about insurance claim, upon hearing that no claim would be filed he wrote it up as vandalism (not B & E), I did request the copy of the report - it said vandalism not B&E, cop refused to rewrite it. Vandalism is a nonstarter for BCPD, they don't care. Burglary, however, shows up on COMPSTAT. There absolutely is a very consistent conspiracy to lower the numbers - this is not an isolated incident. Conduct complaints get bogged down in an FOP management practices agreement which makes it impossible to discipline officers in realtime. One of the reasons Baltimore is sooo bad is that anytime you want something done right, even if it's just to pick up your garbage in the right spot, you have to take the day off and make the rounds at city hall. {Government of the people (no), for the people (no), and by the people (Oh, yeah.)} Self-serve in Charm City.
BTW, if O'Malley loses for Guv, we'll still be stuck with him. I understand that among those interested in filling his shoes are: Council Pres. Sheila Dixon, Controller Joan Pratt, State Senator Joan Carter Conway, and possibly Kweisi Mfume. What is needed here is to do away with the Strong Mayoral form of government, which is only answerable one day out of 4x365=1460, and instead install an unelected City Manager answerable to City Council, probably in conjunction with a largely ceremonial Mayor's office.
Oh, another tip about police calls for assistance,... the 311 operator will ask if you want to see/speak with an officer. If you answer "No.", they will just drive by and drive off if there're no signs of violence. ALWAYS tell them you want to see the officer, if you want anything actually done. If you are concerned about contact revealing that you were the caller, have the officer meet you from your rear alley.
FYI, they don't increase deployments based upon the number of calls from an area, only based upon the count of incidents actually recorded, so if you want them to follow up on it, get that incident report ticket in your hot lil' hands. There's kind of a big scam going on: they will register you for an anonymous caller ID number to protect your identity, but without the personal contact they will only stop the car if they see the crime in progress. Since the dispatch takes maybe 45 minutes, they usually get there after the fact and blow it off because you as the caller were anonymous. If you want to offer details about the incident or perpetrator, 311 won't really convey that, so try to speak with the officer.
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