The defense and prosecution have rested in the Smoot case, closing arguements are due tomorrow.
This afternoon Judge John M. Glynn granted a defense motion to dismiss all charges against Nathan D. Colbert.
Jury instruction and closing arguments in the matter of State vs. Dameon Woods and James L. Hatcher are scheduled for 9:30 a.m. tomorrow in room 203 Mitchell.
Courthouse speculation is the guards will get off, as the witnesses changed their statements multiple times.
Finally, three days after the fact, the S "covers" the shooting of 16-year-old Bernard Davis of the 1600 block of Castle Street in an exceptionally detailed 200-word feature.
Davis is the 19th juvenile killed this year.
Another boy was also shot during the incident but survived.
Ink: Last week was exceptionally violent, with 10 murders .
Andrew Jackson, 26; Davon Sampson, 18; Janice Letmate, 67; Lateef Chase, 25; Sultan Z. Matthews, 19; Gary Nelson, 47; Lamont Brown, 20; and Jamelle (sp?) Carter, 18, have left the building.
Also excpetional: the Sun wrote something about all 10 murders.
Is someone in editorial attempting to change the error of the paper's status-quo-loving ways?
What's next, humanizing these people with a hint of a detail of their lives?
Two hundred and fifty words, maybe?
Students were shot with a BB gun outside of Pikesville High.
Twenty-five pounds of pot was seized in Laurel.
Media coverage helped in the arrest of David Fernando Garcia for rape in Elkridge.
Five months after the death of Rey Rivera, the blog still gets multiple hits a day from all over the country for keywords related; evidently a lot of people don't believe his death was suicide.
Politiques:
The Gazette newspapers have endorsed Ehrlich.
O'Malley's people, via the Baltimore Chronicle, say Ehrlich refuses to debate.
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Cybes,
I've set up some GIS maps of the criminal population and of Baltimore B, the forgotten Baltimore, as well as a graphical comparison of our murder rate relative to high-crime major cities. It doesn't look good, folks.
Anyhow, it's over at Baltimore B if you're interested.
Jeez Louise, it seems that good ol' Jemini Jones, when fleeing arrest for a handgun charge just lately, was at the intersection of 33rd and Frisby in Better Waverly.
While Frisby is only a couple blocks in length, it's already seen two police chases, a shotgun assault on a cop, a double shooting, and a couple of robberies, not to mention being the exit from the Blockbuster where Tony Gilmore was murdered.
Busy lil' dead end street
Cybes,
Please check out the latest report and compare it to the postings after the July 4th incident. I just the tale end on TV and it showed MOM with his veins popping and his implicit threat to TV stations not to show the tape over and over again.
Insiderout
Oh, come now. Let's not pretend the Chronicle is nonpartisan. I'm sure the Ehrlich campaign will lay out its requirements in due time.
Here's Jayne Miller's latest report showing O'Malley denying the extent of the gang problem in Baltimore this past summer: http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/10001699/detail.html
if you go to the city's online crime map and look at aggravated assaults in the inner harbor on july 4th, you'll notice that there is a double incident in the 200 block of east pratt street involving a firearm. i always took this to mean that someone actually got shot, but if that were the case i would imagine that those wbal articles would have mentioned something about that. so what does it mean? i don't get it.
If you've ever investigated a murder in the city, or talked to people in some of the f-ed neigbhorhoods where they occur, you'll soon realize how, in many cases, few want to talk to police or reporters about the gangbanger/drug dealer who just got his brains blown out. Please, I implore some bloggers/posters here to pick a murder in, say, the heart of the eastern district, and just show up at the address and start talking to people. don't just plot it out on your makeshift computer map and think you got some real handle or insight into city crime. Next, while you're out in the 'hood, imagine you're a homicide detective: you need to get people to cooperate, first by persuasion or by appealing to whatever compassion for their fellow man that they might have. Sometimes, there just isn't much compassion, so detectives break out the good cop/bad cop routine and act like pricks. Or if you're a reporter, you need to come back to your editor with on-the-record interviews from people who knew this dead gangbanger/drug dealer, or it's hard to put them on TV or quote anonymous sources. Try to get people in this neighborhood, who knew the victim, to give you their real, full name so you can quote them on how this dead gangbanger/drug dealer had some problems, but he was, at heart, "a good man." sure, right, of course he was... but even if he wasn't a good man, he still deserves justice for his murder. it's incredible to see how many, many cops doggedly pursue that justice, for someone who they knew nothing about, and who did little with their life except to cause a lot of problems in other peoples' lives and neighborhoods. talk about thankless work.
In many neighborhoods, residents, neighbors and obvious witnesses won't even acknowledge your presence or your questions; they'll just turn around and walk away. Like you have the plague. I shit you not. They don't want to talk to you, nor do they want to be seen talking to you. Of course, when someone does talk, they are thinking, or asking you: "will i be subpoenad? you gonna make me go down to homicide now? will i be quoted? will you show my face on tv? do you have to? i have young children who live here...please don't quote me."
Don't just imagine doing this while sitting at your computer and clickety clacking away in cyber/blog land, with your cop/media critic hat on. Unless you've tried to do it, you have no idea. So, go out and do it for a day. Give yourself a deadline later that day, and when that deadline comes, figure out how much you can really say about the life and death of someone, when virtually NO ONE wants to talk about him or her. And you'll get just a taste of what the police, prosecutors, The Sun, The CityPaper, The Examiner, and WMAR, WBAL, WJZ and WBFF/Fox get when they try to report on the "average" homicide in B-more. You can blame that general dearth of information, in no particular order, on: witness intimidation, general callousness, revenge motives, and the sad and pervasive belief that police, prosecutors, and the city, state and Feds can't be trusted to protect witnesses who cooperate. This blog might be kinda new, but this climate -- this landscape that police and local media operate in -- is not new. It's been around for years in charming Charm City. The murders have thrived in this twisted conspiracy of silence.
If people in certain neighborhoods are angry about the murders, or how they don't get covered in the media, then they need to pick up the phone and call the police and help them solve them. Start Snitching. DROP A DIME. Also, pick up the phone and call the media and cry and lament about the gangbanger/drug dealer who was just killed on the corner, who was wanted for murder or attempted murder or robbery.
TESTIFY. TALK ON THE RECORD.
But ya know something? most people don't call about the murders of such people. They don't call police. They don't call the media. They don't talk. They just endure it. And that's the general shittiness of Baltimore Crime, circa 2006.
Signed,
Anon.
Aggravated assault includes any attempt with a (potentially) deadly weapon, so knives, blackjacks, and incendiary devices are all included. They need not entail a fatality.
As to the post on dealing with crime in the other Baltimore, one solution would be to live it. I don't write about the 'hood from a home in Roland Park; I'm here. Every day.
FYI, double and single shootings yesterday.
Just so y'all know, the neighborhood in which the double shooting/murder at Biddle & Luzerne took place is one of the highest-ranking for return from prison. That is, a significant chunk of the ex-cons settle there after incarceration. Recidivism is also off the charts.
galt, i never said anything about a fatality, but i did say that the crime map specifically said it was an aggravated assault with a gun.
Very, very curious. It seems that sometime after I queried the system about events on 7/01/06 at the Harbor this a.m., someone purged all that data from the system. If you query anything before July 2, 2006 now, it tells you the data are out of range. Hhmmmmmmmmmmm. Very suspicious.
"Don't just imagine doing this while sitting at your computer and clickety clacking away in cyber/blog land, with your cop/media critic hat on"
At 12:05 AM Fri morning while iam typing this at my puter' there is a "WAR" going on right outside my window (Jefferson & Kenwood)between some wanna-be thugs or bloods.... not a "BOY IN BLUE" in sight!!!! this is why we are sooooooo!! critical... #214 or #216 for murder ink next week!!
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