Monday, March 27, 2006

March 24- April 5

The Cybrarian will be generally unavailable for the two weeks it takes Verizon to hook up a GD'd DSL connection.

Jury selection in the rape trial of Charles Carroll is expected to begin at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday before Judge Roger Brown, 636 Clarence Mitchell Courthouse.
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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

http://www.auditbdp.com

Time for a full audit of the criminal statistics.

Mon Mar 27, 04:52:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

The BCPD website has just been updated. It's.... slicker. The crime map still doesn't generate tables of incidents.


The Commish. insists his dept. is not pulling the wool over anyone's eyes. You're right. You're not succeeding in pulling the wool over my eyes.

From his crime-fighting strategy,


THE MISSION OF EVERY MEMBER OF THE
BALTIMORE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS THE SAME,
REGARDLESS OF ASSIGNMENT:
Reduce violent crime through targeted proactive enforcement.




So, ... how's that working out for ya ? Violent crime's real high in my 'hood and ,ahem, what about property crime? Or is that ok to do?

Personally, I haven't seen anything but reactive policing since Kevin Clark came on board. Anyone else?

Also, Hamm says that incidents of non/misreporting are statistically insignificant compared to the volume of calls. Then why do so many people keep telling me stories about what the police did to them?

Mon Mar 27, 05:21:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

today's police blotter at:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/crime/bal-md.blotter27mar27,0,1232790.story?coll=bal-local-headlines

Mon Mar 27, 05:30:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Say, anyone notice that only about 1 in 3 officers is actually on patrol ? Who thinks their neighborhood would improve with the addition of more patrol personnel ? Yes, I really do want your responses.

Mon Mar 27, 05:49:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

More Police Officer Misconducts Reported

Hey, it's not my headline.


http://wjz.com/local/local_story_086113048.html

Mon Mar 27, 05:55:00 PM EST
PCM said...

About one in two officers is assigned to patrol. That works out to (approx) 1 in 12 officers on patrol at any given time.

You need six patrol officer to get one on the street. It ain't cheap.

How's this for a good trade off? More officers actually patrolling, like on foot, and a slightly longer average response time. That really would be proactive.

How can we really expect good patrol when the department uses patrol (and foot patrol in particular) as punishment?

Mon Mar 27, 08:13:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Working patrol and doing it well should not be a detriment to career advancement. We need different values downtown. I agree with your numbers on shift rotation, but stand by my understanding of the excessive numbers on special units. Why does that make me think of punt return and place-kickers?

Mon Mar 27, 09:55:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Just thought of something... I'm including sworn administrative personnel. Maybe that's the difference.

Mon Mar 27, 09:57:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

Foot patrols would be nice to see, in general, throughout the city, not just in my neighborhood. And interacting with people if at all possible. Though I do know that this happens, it would be nice to see it happen a lot.

Tue Mar 28, 08:54:00 PM EST
Anonymous said...

FYI, the patrol unit is always the first to be shortchanged. Basically, it's a shell game. If it takes ten officers to patrol one hundred blocks, then HQ figurers no one will ever notice if they cut it to five, provided they distribute manpower uniformly. You don't at first, but crime is cumulative. It builds in frequency and aspect. In time, it becomes very, very apparent that the patrols are being spread way too thin. Our current situation is that patrol has been overstretched for so long that HQ thginks that five is the new ten. The disparity is obvious to anyone with recent experience living in a normal city. When I return from trips to New York and then return to Charm City, it just depresses me immediately. You can feel the disorder and hazard in the air. In particular, you notice it when you pass the favored parts of Baltimore and begin to enter the neighborhoods. It hits you like a ton of bricks when you cross Greenmount headed East from Charles Village or Eutaw/MLK headed West from Mt. Vernon. There might as well be a roadsign "Caution: gunshots ahead".

Like any good shell game, the way to bust the con is to lift the shells and count the peas in open view. By that measure, Baltimore's been conning the Neighborhoods awfully for years. I suspect it's been a generation since residents saw decent patrol, which is why O'Malley's getting away with it: no insitutional memory.

Tue Mar 28, 10:34:00 PM EST

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