No charges yet in the Blackwell abductions.
The female remains found in a shallow grave near Emmitsburg were positively ID'd as Deysi Benitez, who looks like she was yet another victim of her husband Pedro's violence. (I'm really late posting about this one.)
Post: Demented dad Mark Castillo bought poison, duct tape at Home Depot, tried to sell caged Furby by the side of the road. Amy Castillo "didn't think divorce was an option because of her religious beliefs," though she apparently changed her mind at some point.
With the death of Tom Lewis, the Catonsville Nine are now the Catonsville Five. Lewis did more than three years for his civil disobedience in protest of the Vietnam War.
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I keep on thinking about those trees on the ridge over at Machu Picchu.
The "Cop in the Hood" link led me to a couple of interesting articles/blog posts about the advantages of police officers patrolling on foot. You can check them out here and here. Moskos makes some interesting points, although I can't help but wonder if he's exaggerating a bit about the destructive effects of putting cops in patrol cars.
p, if you never read the blog Rebuilding Madison (there's a link over there on the right, I think), you really should do so. Bryan and Vaughn talked a lot about the value of cops on foot. Their experiences really changed my perception on policing.
But Chuck, didn't Bryan and Vaughn ultimately concede that they were outnumbered, overwhelmed and that the ghetto had won and so they left ?
I actually have read Rebuilding Madison, although it's been a while, so I don't remember all the details. I've always supported putting more cops on foot patrol, it's just that Moskos makes it sound like the reliance on cars has single-handedly wrecked law enforcement in the US.
Yes, they did concede that. Does that make their points less valid?
There's nothing better or worse about car patrols vs. foot patrol. They are best delineated by geography: older areas with winding alleys cannot be maneuverd well in vehicles.
The BCPD has in mind to ignore/allow/fail to respond to about 60% of the least-violent offenses going on around you.
In a vehicle, they can just zip by and pretend they saw nothing. On foot, it's harder to maintain plausible deniability: they're standing right there in front of you while it's going on, for crying out loud.
That's why they want to use cars: they can clam that one man is covering 50 square blocks because he's driven by them (without doing much except in the case of immediate, violent incidents). Everything else gets a basically clerical response after the fact.
Foot patrols are fundamentally more accountable to victims.
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