Hagerstown prison's on lockdown after a fight in the yard sent four inmates to the hospital.
A 38-year-old inmate died of a heart attack at the Corrections Center in Glen Burnie. Also in AAC, four generic-sounding robbers on the loose.
Two unidentified men were shot to death in East Baltimore on Friday night, an unidentified man died early yesterday morning after being beaten in West Baltimore on Saturday afternoon, an unidentified man was fatally shot in West Baltimore yesterday afternoon, and a restaurant worker in the Southeastern's Greektown neighborhood was killed when seven people robbed Restaurante La Baha on Sunday night.
A heartwarming MLKJr.'s day tale: the real-life Penny and Seaweed! Shirley Billy got locked up in the Pines Street Jail for Women for having a halfie baby. Her mom bailed her out, she challenged Maryland's miscegenation laws, and she and her husband have now been married for 50 years.
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so how many murders does that give us for 2006? I heard that the police fudged some numbers for 2005 which might lead to a few more homicides for 2006. I wonder if anyone ever sent a FOIA request to the cororner's office to find out how many homicides there really are each year.
Do ya think someone is trying to hide something......Election year and all.....I was hoping to see it updated here.
As far as I know, that brings us to 13 so far this year, including the body found in Cherry Hill on New Year's Day.
Murders are tough to fudge. Usually boo-boos in that area are attributable to timing differences, usually due to reclassifications after year-end.
The real variations occur in lower-level part I offenses, which are either misclassified as part II or are altogether unreported.
We have this problem in a big way. The hitch is, we don't fire officers for misreporting. Hence, they do it. Because we kinda know they do it, we have no faith in the stats. For that reason, we don't get very worked up about the failure of incident-based underdeployment, we just understand that Baltimore policing rots. To fix it, you need answerability by officers. They need to be fired for improper exercise of authority. Here, we don't even fire them when they COIMMIT part I offenses.
re: timing differences, the FBI has Baltimore's number: they bounced back last year's stats upon review. The police department spokesweasel acknowledged the discrepancy, stating that "we stand behind our numbers." Yeah,... wayyyy behind.
Too much nonsense in this dept.: next Commissioner ?
This on the murder of a Greektown restauranteur:
"There's always a shooting up this way, always. This is surprising it happened on Newkirk Street because usually it happens down on Lehigh Street. So this here is a little bit too close to home," says Seidenstricker.
Usually? Usually? What a lousy city.
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