How many macabre claims to fame can one city have? Now it turns out the nerve gas and mustard gas used on the Kurds by Saddam's regime came from Baltimore.
A 14-year-old, Haymond Burton, was arrested and charged as an adult on two counts of attempted murder for shooting Lewis Jefferson, 18, and Mark Smith, 25. Also, two teenage boys were shot on Hillen Road.
PG County has set a new murder record with 155 killings so far this year.
25-year-old Dale Brown of Easton is charged with abuse and assault for allegedly shaking his five-month old son to death.
Corey Grant of the North Avenue Boys pled guilty in Federal court to gun charges.
Hopkins freshman: an e-mail about Michael Bryant's body in Wyman Park "would have been nice."
I'm so bored of hearing about cameras.
University of Maryland students protested against rascism following the Nov. 13 violent arrests of two students living off-campus.
In Laurel, 15-year-old David Jahangiri was arrested for wearing a "Stop Snitching" shirt to school. He's suing, of course.
Wow, remember that 90's ecoterrorist group, ELF? Someone repping them claimed responsibility for burning down townhomes in Hagerstown. Other retro institution apparently still alive in the area: the gay bathhouse.
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I agree that all local college students (not just at JHU) should have been told about Michael Bryant's death. In fact, I think they also should have been told about the following:
Dominic King: 10/25/05, 1800 block of Guilford, 2 miles away from the Johns Hopkins main address.
Bruce Turner: 10/13/05, 4600 block of Keswick, 1.5 miles away.
Myron Koenig, 9/18.05, 600 block of E. 30th St., 1.2 miles away.
James Garrett: 9/16/05, 1100 block of W. 36th St., 1.6 miles away.
That's just since school started in September. I'd be happy to go back to the summer or spring sessions.
So, five murders within two miles of JHU in less than three months. Yeah, I think students at Hopkins (and at Loyola) should know about that.
What's the difference between Baltimore and Detroit? It's not the Inner Harbor, hon; it's Hopkins. The longer I live here, the more I'm convinced that JHU/JHH is the only thing keeping us out of the #1 spot. And what would happen if students knew that five people were killed within 2 miles of campus this semester? Enrollment would probably drop. And what would happen if enrollment dropped? You can bet your ass that our city's fearless leaders would be scrambling ass-over-elbows to clean things up. I mean, murder's okay as long as it doesn't affect anyone important, right?
Cameras? Been there, done that.
The city said it couldn't provide patrol manpower.
As a stop-gap measure until the BCPD could DO ITS JOB, our neighborhood raised funds and paid for cameras.
After serious crimes are reported (and maybe even acknowledged by BCPD)and police are told that there are video tapes, in what percentage of the cases do you think they actually bothered to get the tapes? And what kind of clearance rate do you think we have?
So, the job doesn't get done even if WE buy the cameras and even though WE generate evidence. Hey, if you don't have enough manpower, what the HECK are you doing to hire it, over perhaps a six month period? We need performance benchmarks and deadlines.
Since this administration has repeatedly failed to adequately staff the department, how about setting a deadline, after which national guard forces will be assigned to this disaster area, subject to availability.
O'Malley is a classic idea man: the kind who meets with others, borrows their ideas, and utterly misunderstands the details of implementing them. CompStat, of course, is a prime example. Measuring things is great. Measuring the correct ones is better.
Suppose we required the Mayor's family to live in one of the crime hotspots while in office? Somehow, it makes the hypothetical real rather quickly.
Chuck:
It's much worse than you know. Hopkins traditionally discourages its students from being involved with Charles Village or the city of Baltimore, other than with the University's intercession.
You see, when students step into the shoes of Baltimore residents and are treated as such by the City, the results are generally unflattering to Hopkins.
Consequently, Hopkins prefers that students be in contact with the Hopkins security office.
That way, if the City needs to be contacted, it is by Hopkins. As a result, the City responds as if it were someone that mattered and considerable resources are brought to bear almost immediately, so the students walk away with the impression that the area is far better served than it really is.
Maybe we could supply them with t-shirts indicating that, unlike residents, they are Baltimore-Exempt. Just so it's clear who matters. The same shirts could be handed out by the Baltimore Area Convention and Visitors' Bureau at the new municipal hotel so that none of the tourists should be troubled by our designation as Second Most Dangerour Big City in America.
Wish I were Baltimore-Exempt.
taotechuck:
You should do your homework. Hopkins has a long history of snubbing the city of Baltimore, the insitution has been very responsible for devastating the neighborhoods around the hospital for years.
You could double the murder rate or triple it around Homewood and that wouldn't put a dent in enrollment at your (mine, as well) fine university. If enrollment plummeted I doubt the city government would care.
Don't flatter yourself, there are plenty of lawabiding taxpayers that live in this city that care enough to make their neighborhoods safe.
In the meantime, if you want every single student at Hopkins to be abundantly safe and secure then the univeristy should either make it mandatory for all students to live on campus or hire chaperones to escort all of them everywhere they go.
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