Five murders since Cybrarian's last post: 17-year-old Shawnisha Biggus was stabbed repeatedly on Woodbourne Ave. (right across the street from where 15-year-old Vatell Murray lived before he was shot to death in a train tunnel back in January). Her murder received an atypical amount of coverage, including WJZ's piece on a candlelight vigil and this sensationalist bit titled "Murder Suspect Still On The Loose". (It might be more accurate to write "Hundreds of Murder Suspects Still On The Loose.")
Lennard Hawkins, 22, was shot outside his Lauretta Ave. home on March 12, and died at Shock Trauma on Wednesday, March 22.
73-year-old Lee Tatum was stabbed on Tuesday, March 21 after having a dispute with 51-year-old Dana White on E. 25th St. He died on Thursday, March 23.
The Sun article about Shawnisha Biggus mentions that 21-year-old Carlos Lewis was apparently the man who was shot in the head in South Baltimore near 295. Even though that WJZ article asked us to "Stay logged onto WJZ.COM for the latest updates on this story," they never actually bothered to report that he died at Shock Trauma early Thursday morning.
Derrick Green, 21, was found early Saturday morning with multiple gunshot wounds to his abdomen. He died at the scene.
In the Blotter, two teenage girls stabbed a 54-year-old employee of Royal Fried Chicken, a man was robbed, another man was robbed, and a man was hit over the head with a big piece of wood.
The case against three suspected East Baltimore drug dealers collapsed when Circuit Judge John N. Prevas ruled that defense attorneys could tell jurors about 46 internal affairs complaints filed against the two investigating police officers.
After the Dundalk precinct recorded 4,000 (???) calls to the York Park Apartments last year, Baltimore County is buying the crime-ridden complex. (I wonder if city officials could convince the county to buy Lauretta Ave., also?)
King took the stand for over four hours on Monday.
The Maryland House of Delegates approved legislation to veto the Constellation/FPL Group energy merger. Ehrlich and BG&E officials don't seem impressed.
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Two thoughts:
(yeah, sometimes I actually have them)
1) Maybe the County could buy a certain crime-ridden City.
2) Once Chuck learns how to twist stats, he can get a lucrative job working for Mr. O'Malley.
Hey, has Cybrarian got any info on the apparent noggin busting/cash register clean-out of the RoFo on Keswick-n-37th last Saturday (03/25/2006) night? All we know is Chappy waved us off and there were 8 cop cars in the lot plus fingerprint dusting of the glass doors. And all we wanted was some hot-dogs...
if i had a nickel for everytime i've seen 5+ cop cars congregated in one place with lights blazing and couldn't for the life of me find out what had happened...
Whoa, I see theres been 5 murders since the last post. For a second there I thought geez has Baltimores Murder Rate actually started to go down...? Nope back to normal! It must have been too cold outside to kill anyone in the past few weeks.
This post is only sorta crime-related - it's really on idle youth. Sorry.
Baltimore would be well-advised to pay attention to the struggle in France over the CPE. That law is a procedure to make French labor markets more fluid for the young, who suffer from tremendous unemployment because they are not very valuable workers to start, there is tremendous variability in their skills and usefulness across applicants, and once hired, they are a pain to get rid of. Sound familiar, Baltimore? Anywho, the idea is to encourage venturesome hiring by making it easy to toss back the lemons. That so many young people who have complained bitterly of unemployment are now scared to death of having their work product subjected to evaluation should reveal a great deal about their true agenda. They want municipalized jobs: show up at 9:00, leave at 5:00, and do little in between. That's why the future of the global economy will be written in China and India: they don't try very hard to protect people from the rigors of hard work. Yankee ingenuity and the puritan work ethic are alive and well, and living in Shanghai.
The only yankees you'll find within Baltimore city limits are on a baseball diamond, which was yet another boondogle from the municipal sector.
great set of links, chuck. Thanks.
Thanks, Rodya. I haven't been around much for the past couple of months, but the least I can do (the very least, in fact) is pick up the slack when the Cybrarian's away. I hope to be around more once my exams are done next week.
And Galt... that fat cat stats gig sounds sweet! It's like being a fiction writer and a math geek at the same time!
And the electives in Practical Poli Sci are cool, too:
Introduction to Lying
Theory of Cheating
Stealing candy from babies practicum
Spokesweasel Internship
Hot dogs, my ass. That RF is good for only two things: beer and porn.
So, to review, your testimony endorses the PoFo porn and certifies it as to quality?
Kinda like "Have you stopped beating yer wife?"
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