In the time it took me to write today's post, the Sun published an article about another murder. Someone was killed at about 3:00 this morning in the 5400 block of Crismer Ave. in the Northern (or would that be Northwestern?).
And wow again. MJB just sent me a really disturbing article from the Post reporting that 49-year-old Calvert County resident Ricky Joseph Salvatore got all hepped up on beer, weed and PCP, listened to the song "41 Shots" on the radio, then fatally shot his younger brother.
Damn. I didn't realize that Shannon Dudley got stabbed in the heart. That's brutal. Of course, the two kids who were charged claim they didn't do it.
Wise words from Annapolis murder victim Jerome Hughes' grandmother during an emotional sentencing where Dupree Rashard Williams got 17 years: "You have to forgive. If you don't, it's like a cancer. It's time for all of you to grow up."
Someone in Baltimore is making some serious threats against the folks at CASA de Maryland.
Convicted car thief William Spessard escaped from a work detail yesterday with the old "I gotta pee" routine. Haven't these prison guards ever watched any movies? OF COURSE he was trying to escape. Like, duh.
Today is a rough news day for city workers. DPW employee Melvin Talbot was arrested for allegedly selling smack while he was working on Pulaski Highway, and a Public Works supervisor was arrested at the salt dome (or is that Salt Dome?) on Falls Rd. this morning for allegedly stealing water from a distributing company.
I wonder who plundered the Thunder from Down Under?
Pasadena Purses Pilfered! (I totally missed my calling as a headline writer for the New York Post.
Did Natasha Terresa Fowlkes lead the Edgewood attack that paralyzed Gregory Simmons, or was she innocently in the wrong place at the wrong time? Only God and the jury know for sure.
Hey Luke, where's your monthly recap? There are still a lotta dead people in May who need to be acknowledged, even if WJZ says this has been the least homicidal May since the '70s.
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One more body found.
Turns out that's the same case as on Crismer.
Says the Director of Baltimore-based Advocates for Children and Youth:
"Under no circumstance should we be of the position that we need to lock up 250 young people to get through the summer."
I agree. We should not be in that position. And in fact we are not in that position, because the first 250 is just a drop in the bucket. There are in fact 800 juvie warrants to be served, so we're in a far worse position.
Stop whining about hand-holding programs and bogus counseling and get these hoodlums into a cell. All of them.
For a bit of perspective on the scope of the unserved warrant problem in Baltimore, recll that the Dept of Juvenile Justice as a caseload of around 2,000.
So it's, like, 40% unserved.
On the adult side, there are some 40,000 unserved warrants, which is about commensurate with the number of active (supervised) cases in Baltimore City at the adult Department of Corrections - Parole & Probation.
Of course, the adult warrants also include some noise from FTA for child-support, traffic fines, and domestic disputes and some expired paperwork, which inflate the number.
Chuck, what is the basis for the contention that dropping out of school magically worsens a person's health outcome ?
If I had dropped out of school, are you suggesting that I'd now be shooting it out with drugdealers ?
What I suspect you are referring to is a statistical correlation between poor educational attainment and violent crime.
There is such a correlation.
Antisocial conduct causes both of them.
As for the proposition that those who perform poorly in school (and therefore likely drop out) are irresistably compelled to engage in violent crime, that's just bullcrap.
I know plenty of low-intellect, low-income working people who left school early, got jobs, raised kids, and stayed out of trouble with the law.
Why is that less common here? Only because law enforcement is outnumbered and overburdened here.
In the presence of adequate behavioral enforcement, you will find that the only safety correlates of dropping out of school relate to OSHA in low-income jobs and to consumer choices like smoking and alchohol use, etc.
Getting a C in Algebra does not explain holding up a liquor store. Tolerated criminality does.
Nah, I was simply referencing a report that was highlighted in the local news a few weeks ago. I was too lazy to go dig up the links. I'm pretty sure it was one of those stellar TV News headlines like "Dropping Out Can Get You Killed To Death."
I missed Mid-Day with Dan today talking about the Juvenile Detention Facility. I could wait until next week to listen from the archives about what was discussed. But since I get most of my news here, I know someone can give a quick synopsis. Many Thanks!
One of the more interesting facts on Rodericks today, is that states spend somewhere between $190,000 to $40,000 per juvi inmate per year. His guests couldn't figure what MD spent for each juvi inmate a year, but the child advocate guest did not seem to understand Dan's shock at the figures.
Yeah, the Youth advocacy people have a simple solution: instead of penalizing poor behavior, we could just tax the hell out of everyone to generate 'free' financial resources to throw at the problem.
Why didn't I think of that? Let's just provide 'free' resources to everyone for everything.
Need a new car? Let's just 'provide' it. It will cut down on accidents.
Want a new Widescreen tv ?
Let's just hand them out. It will reduce burglaries.
How to pay for all this? Why, have government print the money, of course so it's free, right ?
As for the gal who objects to serving the top 250 juvie warrants, does she have some kinda evidence to offer the court to exonerate the defendants?
No, she just hopes to obstruct the Judiciary process for the benefit of criminals. How very Baltimore.
More psychobabble than solutions at the summit on school violence.
Let's just all get counseling and carry on as before, beating and stabbing one another.
Update: a city DPW supervisor was arrested in connection with a scheme to traffick in soft drink inventory stolen from Beverage Capital Corp's bottling plant in my neighborhood. He was taking it in at the City's salt dome.
I am truly amazed every day at the stupidity of the human race. One trip on the tame light (fright) rail, not to mention the bus, will lay waste to any hope you have for the future of Baltimore. The ego in this country is astounding. Not, conceit-ego, but the Buddhist kind of ego. The "I gots to git mines" mentality is killing this city. When "Mothers" and "Fathers" (if the kid is lucky-r maybe not) care more about their possessions than the education of our children, we are in trouble.
Sorry for the rant; I had a rough ride to and from work.
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