On that note, the Metro Digest reports a 20-year-old was shot in the stomach in Southwest Baltimore; his name and condition are unknown, and there is no known motive or suspect in the case. In the Blotter, an unidentified man in his mid-20s was in serious condition after being shot at 3:00pm on New Year's Day, and police are seeking information.
An officer at the Library of Congress shot his wife and was involved in a four-hour standoff with police in AccoKeek, MD.
Baltimore police have made four arrests in last week's home invasion and rape in Woodlawn.
ABC2 reports that Calvert County police are seeking a white GMC pickup (Maryland tags 85N235) owned by Graham Buckmaster in relation to the shooting death of Buckmaster's ex-girlfriend, Lisa Moore.
Montgomery county is working on legislation that will make driving without a license punishable by jail time. An advocate says the bill unfairly targets illegal immigrants.
Crimes against Annapolis' population of Hispanic immigrants appear to be on the rise.
Police continue to investigate the church robbery in Harford County, and a reward for information leading to an arrest has been established.
8 comments:
re: the Montgomery County penalty for driving without a license...
Uh, yeah, it unfairly targets illegal immigrants... especially when they're driving illegally. Now, the key to the discussion is... illegal. Maybe an ACLU attorney should look that word up. It's something we discourage. Shame on us for that, right?
Newly reported.... Baltimore schools intend to deal with their security problems by installing cameras. Cameras don't police,... people do. Further, most teachers will tell you that they aren't lacking knowledge of 'who did it'. The problem is administrators who have financial incentives to not expel the lil' hoodlums, who are well-known. No Child Left Behind should not pay schools to keep criminals. In fact, the money should be pulled from schools which do not have a strict suspension policy for felonious behavior.
The main point, however, was that cameras are a complement to policing, not a replacement. The City Council must resist the temptation to install equipment while depriving citizens of adequate police manpower, which has been the inclination for several years. It is time for the Council to publish a finding of fact as to the adequacy of current police manpower, not justin the schools, but on the streets. You don't shut down someone's store just because your lame Police Commissioner has failed to recruit.
Galt,
It makes sense to install school cameras, because the crime cameras have worked wonders. Praise the mayor, we've dropped by NINE WHOPPING DEATHS! That means only 1 out of every 2400 people in the city will die a violent and unnecessary death this year! That's good news, my friend. Hell, if we install those schoolCams, I bet we can get our public school graduation rate all the way up to 55%!
Maybe the city could pass a law that only failing students get murdered. That way we can improve both statistics at once. If it works, though, I want credit, because I'm going to use those stats in my gubernatorial campaign.
(Yeah, I know... my comments are biased and idiotic. Maybe I'm just pissed because all of the street lights on my block have been shut off, and the dealers are rushing out like roaches. The crime camera two blocks away can't see around corners, and 311 is telling me it takes five days to fix the lights. I wonder how much heroin I could buy in those five days if I go out and sit on my front porch?)
If it makes you feel any better, I worked for six years to get cameras on my street; we paid the capital cost of purchasing them. Earlier this year, I was stabbed. On camera. By hoods I'd earlier warned the police needed to be moved along. I reminded them of the tape when they reluctantly took the report (I had to threaten to file charges to get the report written.) After waiting a respectable time, I inquired as to the progress in charging. They never requested the tape. It was erased. I asked why they forgot... they responded "We didn't forget... we don't have time for nonlethal assaults." That's what I mean. Our current staffing results in most of the laws being unenforced. In other words, it's OK to stab people. Contrary to statute, but OK nonetheless. Only in Balti-less.
They basically treated evidence not as a public asset, but rather as a personal convenience. There's no concept here of a public charge independent of the likes and dislikes of individual public employees. Plain ol' bad government.
Oh boy, busy night. The police just found another body in my neighborhood, placed upon the CSX train tracks.
Oh, I forget, we're saying homicides are down, so forget the above. Must have tripped, yeah, yeah, that's the ticket...
Public Service announcement:
our state legislators will be holding hearings on Wed. at the War Memorial starting at 4:00. The subject is whether arbitrary and capricious arrests by police of innocent citizens undermine the objective of crime enforcement. I support state supervision of our very defective department. If readers want better policing in this town, show up and let your delegates know.
I can't put my finger on it now, but I swear I saw an article yesterday about how slow-moving trains are responsible for the most accidents. I'm sure that explains the body by your house. And those holes in his chest were most likely from rocks that were kicked up by the train.
Interesting about your stabbing. Nearly everyone I've met in Baltimore in the past few months falls into one of three categories: a) spent 5+ years in jail, b) been on the wrong end of a murder attempt, or c) been a close friend or family member of a murder victim. Most of the people I meet are either hospital workers or college students, so it's interesting to me to see how widespread the problem is. It's completely counter to the official claim that since 80% of murder victims are involved in the drug trade, the only victims are drug players.
One of the reasons you find so many survivors of agg. assaults in Baltimore City is... these guys have SUCH bad aim. I've known a lot of hoodlums in my time, but these guys are just lame. Not BAD, so much as pitiful.
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