Four nonfatal shootings and a stabbing the Blotter.
There was a fourth arrest in the Glen Stewart murder.
Edward Williams got 85 years for robbing an off-duty police officer and her then-5-year-old daughter at gunpoint in January.
University of MD law students helped get some indigent non-violent detainees released.
Rilly? GBC says that the city is growing in "prestige, population."
WYPR continues coverage of ex-offenders re-entering society
QTD: "The thing that always amazes me is what people think that we do and what we're capable of. They think that we're some place between a super hero and the Pope with a law degree." -- Maynard Edwards re. the Ed Norris show. ("we"?)
Good news! If you've turned 17 since November 4 of this year, you can now register to vote, and vote in your party's primary! Just download the forms and mail them in.
Someone help me understand: why on earth should we treat ex-cons as if they hadn't been incarcerated ?
ReplyDeleteThey're criminals. Why should that not be held against them? It is very useful and has enduring predictive power.
Stop Snitchin' 2 producer Rodney Bethea:
ReplyDelete"This is what happens when you close schools and build new jails. You're saying, Okay, I'd rather spend money to lock our kids up than to educate them. This is what it breeds a little guy waving a gun thinking it's right," said Bethea.
That's bullsh!t. The schools are over capacity; the jails are under. They serve very different purposes. It's justice. Deal with it.
Baltimore's rotten young males tend to deserve jail.
jails: over capacity
ReplyDeleteschools: under capacity
Most of these kids have already been kicked out of school for poor behavior, so no sympathy here.
ReplyDeleteMan found fatally shot at intersection.
ReplyDeleteSee? Laws work much better when "No." means No.
ReplyDeleteTry it sometime, Baltimore.
Forgot the link for that last post.
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