Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Morning

A 17 year old was found shot in an East Baltimore home last night. Another one, who was shot on August 7th is now dead.

To other shootings occurred during robberies in Baltimore, lending credibility to my theory that the 'safest' place to be in Baltimore is in your home with heavy security.
Jean Marbella wonders about Jessamy's Frustration over the Abell report... that would make two of us.

Linden's Liquor is out of business. But where will I get my Alizé now?

A few leaders of local colleges signed a petition to lower the drinking age from 21 to 18, which could make lives for local Residential Advisors even more hellish

2 comments:

John Galt said...

City police tell the Sun that Linden Liquors was a 'hub for drugdealers' and that the Commissioner used the tools at his disposal to make the neighborhood safe.

Correction:

Reservoir Hill is a hub for drugdealers. That zipcode has the highest number of supervised parole/probation cases in the City at around 3,300.

Made it safe ??? Yeah, right.
Alert the press: no more crime in Reservoir Hill anymore.

The proprietor could probably be a tad more circumspect about the actual CONDUCT of customers while under his roof, but bear in mind that his clientelle, being from Reservoir Hill, are going to be pretty problematic even in a supermarket.

Recommendation: restore his license, convert to off-premises only, and install a plexiglass turntable on the exterior so that no customer ever enters the structure and the Police Department can be responsible for their conduct on the sidewalk.

Then maybe we'll padlock the Commissioner's office when Reservoir Hill remains crime-infested.

John Galt said...

And now Commr. Bealefeld draws the connection between the high crime in Reservoir Hill and his lack of police manpower:

“Linden Liquors is a catalyst for violence,” Bealefeld said in a statement.

“We can keep sending police cars there every night, but to really make the neighborhood safer, we need to close these places down.”

Translation: we don't intend to supply adequate manpower.

Instead, we'd like to reassign custodial responsibility for the many local criminals foisted on the communities of Baltimore City, who comprise the true catalyst, to small businessmen, ethnic minorities, anyone we can lay it off on.

Commissioner: when are you going to fully staff your department !!!!