Still
pondering "The Truce on Drugs" -- could it be that murders are creeping up again because Batts isn't vigorously applying Bealefeld's strategy? And/but to what extent was that strategy applied to begin with? A
cursory perusal of "inputs" at Central Booking still shows that CDS (Controlled Dangerous Substance, aka drug) arrests still shows made up a good 1/3-1/2 of the top charges-- if that's deprioritizing, holy shit. The OpenBaltimore data also shows 48,870 arrests for 2011, vs. the 65,000 the article asserts ... but even if there were an extra 16,000 undocumented arrests and none were CDS, that's still 25,813 arrests between Jan of 2011 and August of 2012 where drugs were the "top arrest charge." Still,
shootings do appear to be way down, and that's something: 381 last year, vs 725 in 2000.
Good gracious, mere days after Andre Littlejohn was arrested for viciously abusing his
two-month-old daughter, 20-year-old Dion Kearrie Ware is
being charged with murdering his one-month-old son, Kearrie Dion Ware on Monday. (The
Sun says he was 7 weeks, but still*) WTF, people? Babies just lie there, if they're annoying you can just go to another room! BTW if you're feeling overwhelmed as a parent, even if you don't feel like you're about to lay a smack down, I can't recommend enough calling 1-800-4-A-CHILD. It's 24/7, completely anonymous, staffed by really sweet trained social workers. And if a baby is crying there is absolutely nothing wrong with putting the baby in a crib and going outside for a minute.
Sad:
the murder trial of James Cureton/Careton, accused of killing Tanise Ervin in 2011, was postponed -- both sides were prepared, family members and Mary Pat Clarke were in the house, but a judge could not be found. Also, there's a Judge Carrion in the city.
Also, Thomas Lee Meighan Jr.,
who got 13 years* for the hit-and-run vehicular homicide of 20-year-old Hopkins student Miriam Frankl, is trying to get some "post-conviction relief." In addition to the Frankl case he had nine previous DUI convictions and also pleaded guilty to another hit-and-run (!!) and got a suspended sentence for that (!!!).
You may recall that in the Frankl case* a
half-dozen people called 911* to report his wild, drunken ride from Highlandtown to Charles Village the city to Bel Air (with a break to pee on Patterson Park), but police ignored all of the calls.
A former
city police officer/former RN was arrested for the shooting in Parkton that was called, at first, a "hunting accident"-- the shooter, Richard Heymann, says he intended to fire a warning shot but accidentally plugged the guy in the thigh.
A
woman was stabbed in Owings Mills
Ew, in Edgewood a 27-year-old former employee of the city schools is
charged with raping and impregnating a 15-year-old who he was supposed to be giving "therapy" to.
Former
Orioles third-baseman Doug DeCinces has been charged with insider trading: 42 counts of securities fraud and one count of money laundering
Thirty years for a guy who
robbed and murdered his quinquagenarian drug dealer
Missing teen
Tyler Grimes was found
A man in Barclay was
robbed while unloading groceries (reported as if that doesn't happen, like, every other day)
The Towson murder of Alsawab Sawab, 27, was
reportedly "not random"