Dick Irwin especial: 371 words for the past seven days' murders:
Last Thursday: Curtis Mitchell, 19, was fatally shot to death.
Saturday: Darnell Butler, 24, was fatally shot in the NW.
Sunday: Homeless Julia Kimberly Boussari, 34, died of a stab wound to the chest; A woman was found suspiciously dead on Druid Hill Ave.
Tuesday: Charles Sparrow, 53, got a fatal chest-stab wound at a house on Glydon Avenue.
Police found the body of a woman who died of head injuries in a vacant home.
Wednesday: The body of a burned man was found inside a rowhome in West Baltimore.
And yesterday, three boys were shot in the Northwestern near Liberty Heights Avenue.
Devin Jamele Milbourne, 21, of Edgewood, was arrested for attempted murder in the shooting of 15-year-old Tyrone Orr in Aberdeen.
The Sun gives the police department's Kristen Mahoney a chance to respond to Jessamy's accusations that numbers prepared by the Police Department were an intentionally misleading attempt to discredit the office of the prosecutor. "'The information that Mrs. Jessamy provided yesterday added no value to the discussion,'" said Mahoney. (What discussion?)
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Here's a bit of news I didn't see on any of the major media outlets:
last night about 715 pm the Save a Lot market had a man attempt to rob the store with a knife. When the cashier ran, the man started swinging the knife, injuring at least one person, who was a cashier. The man was chased after by 2 men, one a store employeee and the other my husband{crazy stupid bastard} and the man holed himself up in a senior citizen's apartment building on 20th st between Charles and Maryland.
How do I know this?? I was in the store trying to do my grocery shopping and it happened as I was approaching the checkout counters.
Gotta love a city where you might get shanked buying food at the neighorhood discount grocery store
Cool.
Baltimore Crime has its own team of field reporters.
Action today:
double shooting on Callow Ave
hostage situation at NE district police headquarters
double shooting at 3400 Cardenas in NE
apparently, a shooting reported at 900 Montpelier in Waverly, per Donny Moses.
Gee, I'm so glad the Mayor's spokesweasel tells us crime is down. I mean, it's not like the shortage of police officers is coinciding with crime incidence or anything.
Ever read the non-fiction HOMICIDE by David Simon? Whitelock and Newington play a role in the murder investigation of "The Angel of Reservoir Hill", LaTonya Wallace.
correction: the shooters at Cardenas did the dirty deed and then returned to the 900 block, Montpelier in Waverly.
Baltimore City District Court cases dropped in 2005:
» 3,921: Police officer was needed for the case and failed to appear
» 5,389: Witness or victim was necessary for case and didn’t appear
» 245: Cases dropped because of a plea negotiation reached in another case
» 19,295 total
Source: Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office
Wow, a double-double shooting.
That failure to appear number is immense. Where are they when they aren't appearing?
It's kinda tough to make all the appearances, given that the manpower in place has dropped by 241 cops, thank you Commr. Hamm. In particular, when you have too few cops and they're on 12-hour shifts, the administrative duties, which are far less burdensome in lower-crime jurisdictions, are going to keep patrols off the street.
One of the problems is that you have to show when court comes to order and stay there until your case comes up, which kills a shift. If you make cops wait, the city foots the bill; if you make defendants wait for cops, then they get stuck paying for defense counsel to wait. If you just use affidavits, then defendants don't get to cross-examine.
This isn't so much a problem in a jurisdiction where arrests are uncommon, but with all the hoodlums we chooose to allow in Baltimore, yeah, yer gonna pay a lotta cops a lotta dough to babysit these a$$holes, both in the street, in jail, and in court.
Also, many of the officers have arrested the same guy ten times before and they know that the judge is wasting their time. We should have cumulative sentencing. From the third time you commit a felony, you should get the maximum for it. No consideration.
The best answer is to restore the practice of declaring felons outlaws. Within city limits, they were subject to capital punishment, usually carried out by a posse comitatus. Due process was finished with the declaration by the court. That's why those guys would flee to outlaw territory, beyond city limits. Good riddance.
I so agree with you on the cumulative sentencing. Next time you're searching cases check out Clyde Calvin Meadows III, the probated witness intimidator.
I think you should have done better research before posting inaccurate information on your blog about my father Charles E Sparrow. He was not stabbed in the chest. It was his back. I would appreciate if you took the information off. Thanks.
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