Following a double shooting of a 30-year-old man and a 16-year-old boy in East Baltimore, the murder count is up to 219.
Corey McMillon, 28, is scheduled for a first-degree murder arraignment 9:30 a.m. Friday, October 21 before Judge John P. Miller in connection with the shooting death of Jamel Jermaine St. Clair, 17 (left).
McMillon was indicted on September 26 for first-degree murder, handgun on person, and handgun used in commission of a felony and crime of violence. He was also indicted on several other counts, including robbery deadly weapon, first-degree and second-degree assault, and additional handgun violations. Court documents allege that on April 1 McMillon fatally shot St. Clair in the 2000 block of East North Avenue. McMillon approached St. Clair and started to go through his pockets. When St. Clair attempted to run, McMillon pulled out a gun and shot him multiple times. McMillon is currently in the city jail awaiting trial on a double shooting. Jamel left behind a girlfriend, Shyeva Cornish, who is pregnant with his child.Police believe that 18-year-old Christopher Gilesin is responsible for the murders of Howard Thacker Jr. and his nephew Dante Thacker at the Village Mill Court apartments in Owings Mills on October 1.
An 80-page 30-count indictment for racketeering, fraud and so on following a two-year federal investigation into the dealings of ex-state senator Thomas L. Bromwell, his wife Mary Pat and Kent Co. President W. David Stoffregen.
Remingtonians Amanda Johnson, 23, and Clyde Meadows, 26, are the first in Baltimore to be charged with felony witness intimidation. They each face 20 years. The allegedly threatened witness identified Timothy Meadows and Kenneth George as the men who shot 21-year-old Paige Boyd during an argument June 25 on Miles Avenue in Remington.
Burglary, robbery and a teenager shot twice in Parkville by a man in an Acura.
Police Captain Don Roby to Dundalk residents: kids in big t-shirts calling themselves 'the Crew' are not a gang.
Taye Willie Lynn, 19, pled guilty in Anne Arundel County Circuit Court to two counts of arson for setting his parents' house on fire in Arnold. The lawyers agree the fire was "a cry for help" -- he thought his parents loved his brother more. As punishment, he's being sent home with his parents.
Also in AA County an officer shot a pit bull after it attacked him. Scary: "[Officer] Heinecke then shot the dog in the face and the animal retreated temporarily before it attacked again."
Interesting trivia: in 1919, the population of Baltimore was 770k+, greater than it is today. There were 842 police officers (today there are about 3,000) and the total homicides for the year = 21.
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The double homicide in East Baltimore actually brings us up to 219. Somehow, you missed that glaringly obvious feature in yesterday's Sun about the three shooting deaths between Sunday and Tuesday. I don't really know how you overlooked those five sentences, since they were prominently placed as the second-to-last blurb in the Metro Briefs section, right in between the blurb about contaminated well water and the one about city curfews.
It's funny, really. More bullets were expended on those three people than were sentences in The Sun. That must be what Our Fearless Leaders mean when they say that only drug addicts/dealers are affected by violent crime in Baltimore.
Thanks Chuck.
Coupla comments on the 1919 stats. The population was a bit higher, but the patrol officers as a percentage of the total were about two-thirds. Today, it's just the opposite. Only one-third of our sworn officers are on patrol. Also, note that there were 50,000 arrests, versus our current maybe, 100,000, of which some 18,000 may be released w/o charge.
1919 60 arrests per patrol officr
2005 80 arrests per patrol officr
Now, let us observe some other features about 1919 Baltimore: far fewer deadbeats (you had to work to eat back then)and many more working class as opposed to ghetto class. The effect of having working class people is to deputize them to assist the po-po. That makes police infinitely more effective. Our framework is the opposite. Workers are an endangered species and the ghetto-dwellers actively harbor offenders.
Please note the there were 21 murders cleared by arrest, not reported.
When your city consists of workers, people are too tired to go jack a car and have family obligations which squeeze out drugs from the consumer budget. Also, at the time enforcing nuisances was much less labor-intensive, as we had effective anti-vagrancy laws and hoodlums could readily be herded into ethnic and racial slums, which made policing blue-collar mainstream areas far easier. The more implied rights people have to engage in antisocial behavior, the more cops you need to obtain the same result. Then, as today, crime within the slum was largely handled internally and was not reported.
Plus it's hard to cap someone's ass with a musket.
The other important analytic adjustment is chronicity, or the number repeats by offenders. We arrest hoodlums for each offense and declare a minimum sentence which puts them back on the street to reoffend. Back then when you were caught for an offense, your incarceration served to incapacitate you, thereby preventing the followup offenses. Those 'hidden' offenses are censored from the historical data.
Heya...
Do you know of blogs like yours in any other cities?
DI
Is there another (American) city where the media does such a remarkably dismal, lazy job reporting on violent crime? I don't know of another city where the need is so great-- maybe try Detroit, if you aspire to your own. Or you could take over this one, and I could spend my time on a personal-reflection blog, sharing with the world how much I hate lousy drivers and the neighbor's dog, and all of my scores on various personality quizzes.
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