40-year-old Ryan Lee Meyers was killed by a police taser gun while he was allegedly attacking his family members with a baseball bat.
17-year-old Kenneth Tomlin tried to steal a Caddy but got killed instead.
Good times around town: A barber was stabbed, a 64-year-old man was robbed at gunpoint, a 13-year-old boy was assaulted and robbed, a man was shot in the face, and a couple cut each other during an argument. (And that's not even looking at the county.)
No more House of Corruption.
A convicted heroin dealer just bought the Hillendale Shopping Center, home to a Baltimore County police substation.
O'Malley's legacy lingers on.
Trouble's brewing at the Cecil County Detention Center.
Frednecks have vandalized their local mosque three times this year.
An honorary Darwin Award should go to Zachary Martin, who cut his hand while vandalizing a knife store.
The Guardian Angels expect about three dozen applicants for their new Harford County chapter.
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Guy, this just keeps gettin' better.
The Examiner reports:
Mayor demands info on classroom assaults
What? They get hit. Do you want a simulcast? Do you want to know whether it was a feint and jab or an uppercut ? The young, female teacher at Waverly Middle School (aka Mike Tyson Middle) was assaulted. Twice.
Float like a butterfly; sting like a bee
KO your teachers like the boys in Waverly.
when you say "One killing over the weekend has been reported so far," does that mean you know that there were definitely more? or is that just a jab at the sun's constant lag in reportage of these sorts of things?
Burger: It's neither, actually. I've just noticed a trend over the past few years that news of weekend murders often trickles in over a span of 2-3 days.
By the way, I think our count is one more than the city's official homicide count. Does anyone know where we're off?
yeah the body found in brooklyn hasn't actually been officially ruled a homicide. i've noticed the sun's lag also. the washington post, on the other hand, although they report maybe 30% of the murders in the metro region, was able to run an article sunday morning about four unrelated homicides saturday in pg county, the latest of which took place around 9:30 pm.
The human body is 61% composed of H2O. Sheila D. and Lenny Hamm are such a waste of perfectly good water.
It was a banner day today. Two guys started drilling my front door lock in broad daylight, with all sorts of people just walking by and NO police anywhere. My neighbor called me to report the fishy doings and as I approached, the two fled. I don't make police reports to Northern anymore because they do nothing with them (even with undeniably clear interior fingerprints and video evidence) even if they agree to take the reports, which about 35% of the time they do not. And don't even ask about the phantom security team of the Charles Village so-called Benefits District. I DID see them once, about two years ago, but they are rarer than unicorns.
Guys, take the property crime numbers and multiply them by at least three. Add to that the violent crime adjusted upward by maybe 50%.
This place is like High Noon's Hadleyville... we need a federal Marshall. Until he arrives, Baltimore needs to be placed under emergency administration because it's just not civilized here.
And Baltimore's public works personnel recommend that you be wary of fake DPW workers showing up.
'You'd know it's not us, because we wouldn't show up for work.'
You just can't make this stuff up.
That the Red Cross announces a blood shortage in the City That Shoots is more along the lines of 'Yeah,.. figures.'
I would like to know the average time a murderer gets in baltimore city. I do know for 2nd you can't get more than 30 years , 1st degree is a max of life... it seems like most the convictions I have seen over the past year or so are for 2nd degree, so maybe it's the problem of showing premeditation for the 1st degree charge along with judges discretion at sentencing. the max for 2nd may be 30 but if the defendant cries it seems like they get an automatic 10 years knocked off..... maybe Ameer taylor should have cried, he may have only got life plus10!
Galt..... in broad daylight drilling your lock? I thought when my friends car got broken into outside the Rendezvous then the guy who did it comes in selling her stuff was bad, but I think you hold the crown for " most absurd witnessing of a criminal act" for 2007... at least so far.
Yeah, but you know, it's just an epidemic in Charles Village. My locksmith across the street from the Vous got hit too. The perp is all over the surveillance video, but by the time the Northern responded, he was gone with all the stuff.
This place just sucks.
This nonsense with cops refusing to take reports on B & E has to stop. They should be subject to instant dismissal, unless they care to charge a false report at the time of the complaint only.
Galt, I understand that it may be futile, but one thing that saddens me when the police can use the excuse that they can't do anything if no one reports a problem.
I like the marshal idea, to bad having a strong individual to enforce the peace is not politically correct.
Good. Let's talk futility.
Baltimore's 50,000 acres (including streets & alleys) corresponds to around 25,000 city blocks in total.
The nine police districts employ about 18 patrolmen each per shift, or under 175 at any given moment.
That's about 145 blocks per patrolman, with over 3,500 residents to oversee simultaneously. Think about it. Cannot be done.
A decent large city assigns maybe 10 blocks to a police beat, while a densely-populated cosmopolitan city like New York assigns an even smaller beat.
Baltimore's just the second worst-managed city in the U.S.
The crime here is entirely avoidable.
Oustanding observation Galt, really. Those are some eye-opening numbers, the math seems to work out. I thought that New York and LA had a less officer to resident ratio and we were the anamoly that we had more police to resident and yet we had a higher crime rate.
I have no desire to live in Texas (or anywhere else in the South) but the story about the people breaking into your home did make me envy residents of states who are actually allowed to defend themselves against criminals. If someone tried that in Texas and you were in your home and were armed, you could put enough bullet holes in them to turn them into human collanders and you'd get a pat on the back from the local cops. Around here Pat Jessamy would probably try to put you on death row (I know she's not a fan of capital punishment, but I figure she'll make an exception for law-abiding citizens who kill while defending their own property.)
from the Baltimore Sun
"There isn't an outcry, even though people are doing things," Dixon said in an interview afterward. "So I felt that I, as the leader of this city, needed to say, 'Hey, wait a minute, let's talk about it.'"
Kelley Ray, a resident of the city's North Harford neighborhood, was one of about 50 attendees who spoke out. She said the department's Northeastern District suffers from an "extreme shortage" of police officers and that more foot patrols would help curtail crime there.
Yes, there's plenty of outcry. More than enough. Time to do your f#@kin' job, Madame Mayor. No need for more talk. Hire cops. Immediately. If Hamm cannot do it, fire him. That's how it's done. Period.
Obviously, Dixon will never fire Hamm. Why should we wait until the next election for even the possibility of improvement. We need immediate OUTSIDE intervention as the entire Baltimore machine is utterly useless and corrupt, and serves only to perpetuate itself so the few incompetents at the helm can continue to receive their paychecks.
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