Sunday, July 30, 2006
July 30
Look... down there beneath the article about the water main break in AAC and the bacteria at the beach and the poor man who was killed when the excavator he was operating flipped over. Do you see it? Hidden way down at the bottom? Numbers 157 and 158, Teon White and Santana Stansfield, were murdered on Friday and Saturday (respectively).
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Tiny little Baltimore City already has more murders this year than the entire states of AL, AR, AK, CO, CT, DE, HI, ID, IA, KS, KY, ME, MA, MN, MS, NE, NV, NM, ND, OK, OR, PR, RI, SC, SD, UT, VT, WA, WV, WI, WY, taken separately.
What kind of frickin' government calls this success? What kind of citizens go along with them?
Gunfight in broad daylight on Linwood across from the Patterson Park tennis courts one hour ago.
Funny, in a decent town that would be really quite disturbing. Here, it doesn't even outrank a high bacteria count in beach water. A stabbing in Gettysburg got higher billing.
Y'know, an important reason why the Israelis have bombed the heck out of Lebanon is because the Lebanese government pretty much aids and abets terrorists. Gives them seats in Paliament. And conceals their criminality.
Baltimore is about the same. It falsifies crime stats, pressures victims not to report, and refuses to provide the policing which would necessarily accompany this number of dedicated criminals.
It's city-sponsored crime. What I wouldn't give for the Israeli Defense Force to nail City Hall with a coupla rockets.
Nothing on the gunfight on any of the TV news sites yet. Note the word "yet." Proof that I'm an optimist. Watched a bit of the WJZ broadcast at 11:00 but didn't see anything.
Interesting to note that I was only a few blocks from there this evening and I didn't hear a thing. I haven't quite determined how far the sound of a gunshot travels.
It usually won't carry more than 3 blocks. The sound at a couple of blocks away is more like a distant 'pop'. When it's quite nearby, it sounds more like a bang. If it's got that sharpness to it, it's close. The decibel level is also dependent upon calibre and, more importantly, the windage.
Yeah, one of my friends was at those tennis courts during the shooting and saw everything, yet he was telling me the police didn't want to hear anything he had to say. He is very shaken up by it since he thought he was a dead man for sure. You would think that this would get a little more press coverage
This on neighborhood gunshots...
who knew???
I heard about the gunfight as well... except that I heard it was in front of the Basketball courts rather than on Linwood.
As usual, there are going to be many conflicting and confusing angles about what really happened. Here's another: I understand the cops got there very quickly and made arrests. This makes me speculate that they were tipped off that something was about to happen.
Galt, geez, you really need to move out of here. Every one of your posts is a bitter screed about the city. You obviously hate it.
Instead of fantasizing about "israeli rockets hitting city hall" like some pathetic 11 year old on a sugar high, I would recommend that you take action by MOVING OUT OF THE CITY. Don't let the door hit you on the way out.
Y'know, the more I think about it, the example of Lebanon is very appropriate to Baltimore City.
It's about tipping points.
Lebanon as a nation is a bad neighbor, harboring terrorists who use its soil as a staging ground for their assaults. This would not be possible if its electorate did not largely consist of similarly-minded persons. If Hiz B'Allah sympathizers were not more than 2% of the population, no elected official would defend their outrageous conduct. If nascent terrorists were arrested at the onset, we wouldn't be here now.
By allowing their ranks to swell to 11%, they become a formidable component of policymaking.
Same thing in Baltimore. If hoodlums were rare and functional working families were the norm in this town, then politicians would demand the same kind of public safety regime that people in all decent places expect.
When, however, the ranks of the criminals and their enabling families/girlfriends exceed the tipping point and become a meaningful constituency in the minds of local politicians, then you can expect policy to be very, very accommodating to them.
Congratulations, Baltimore, you're a great town for hoodlums, but in the long run that means you're not going to be very acceptable to anyone else.
Now, of late, because of high property costs in the suburbs, decent people have been reluctantly moving into enclaves in Baltimore. That doesn't mean their tolerance for criminality is any less. They were sold a bill of goods that if they came here they wouldn't be victimized in their enclaves. Live Baltimore and such. But the recent hostage situations and kidnap/carjack events in those prime places put the lie to 'our criminality won't touch you.'
You cannot have a decent city and a crime haven in the same place. Hard choices, baby.
"I think someone like this will only show up in the news again. Certain personalities are beyond rehabilitation, always have been.
You can't grow a conscience one day after more than 40 years of not having one."--comment on Slabtown Chronicle (Portland, Oregon crime blog)
"That is the problem with Philadelphia, everyone is boasting the market in Philadelphia has gone up it is making it a better city and a beautiful one it has become, but who the hell wants to live there if they have to worry about there lives being taken just walking down a back street or at this point any street, and they want to bring in the casinos, could you imagine that you think the crime is bad now, they would only be painting an ugly picture, it is horrible I lived in philadelphia all my life and I love it and do miss it, but I would never think of raising my children there, because when I think of that I think of loosing one of them to a horrific crime..Philadelphia isn't the same city I lived grew up in.. and I think alot of it has to do with the racial problem you can tear down half of the city give it to all the lower income people and build them brand new houses.. and guess what you are not fixing the problem you are just putting a bandaid on it.. the problem stems from lack of education.. that is where philadelphia needs to start with all the young kids not being let down the right path.. well if is is not fixed it is just gonna be a horrible cycle.." --comment on Philly Confidential
"What's scary for me is that this city is starting to react in a blase way about murders. Or blase about the fact that it isn't in their neighbourhoods...but the fact of the matter is that it's spilling out into all of our neighbourhoods.
That's what's frightening."--comment on TO Crime (Toronto, Ontario)
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