Tuesday, August 22, 2006

August 22

The 63 year-old found stabbed to death in her home at the 200 block, N. Culver, in Edmondson Village over the weekend has been identified as Mary Page. The case is being investigated as a homicide.

23 year-old Darryl Cook, jr. is being sought pursuant to a warrant for the Aug. 9 beating death of 28 year-old Cecil Saunders at the Executive Motor Inn on Pulaski Highway. Cook, who also went by the alias Donnell Williams, frequented the 2200 block of Wilkens Ave.

Also, Dennis James Wallace, 54, has been indicted in the 1983 killing of William Gibson, then 57, at the 2200 block of east Pratt Street. The cause has up until this time been listed as undetermined.

The editorial page of the Examiner calls upon Police Commissioner Lenny Hamm and spokesweasel Jablow to publicly apologize for the department's false arrest and charging of a Baltimore man for the theft of his own car, of which the police disposed prematurely. Don't hold your breath; the department's real good at making mistakes, not good at admitting it.

Around 1:30 this afternoon a motorbiker was hit and run on Frederick Ave. He was taken to shock trauma.

I usually don't include white-collar crime, but given the City's tacit assent to part I crime in Baltimore, it just seems that a link to the Examiner article on the ongoing State investigation of key staffers of City Council President Sheila Dixon is appropriate. The lucrative contract to manage the information systems of City Council has bounced from one Dixon affiliate to another. Her campaign chairman's home has been raided in connection with the investigation. link to article Now, since Dixon would succeed O'Malley as Mayor of Baltimore if he wins the gubernatorial race, a vote for O'Malley is a vote for.... this ?? Grreeaatt.

10 comments:

John Galt said...

Now, see here we go again. In Southwest Baltimore a sizeable rally was held to protest the police-involved shooting of a teenager who allegedly assaulted an officer with a broomhandle.

A man interviewed referred to the kid as 'a teenager doing the kinds of things teenagers do.' If that includes breaking broomhandles over the heads of sworn officers with guns, then teenagers need to be shot. Stop making excuses for the poorly-behaved.

I'm fed up with 'no one should ever be held responsible for their conduct'. That's the only legitimate reason for ever creating a general-purpose government. Not to provide subsidized housing. Not to provide subsidized healthcare.

Maybe we need to shut down hand-out services until people are ready to support the core mission of government.

Anonymous said...

If these kids can't act like well adjusted people, then perhaps they don't deserve social security...

John Galt said...

Well, now I'm really getting steamed at this lousy government.

Another of the three boys who were shot east of Charles Village has died. I'm getting very weary of going to unnecessary funerals. And this in an area where owners pay a surtax for supplemental security.

There's no excuse for not having City cops all over that area. 24-7 It's a goddamn emergency zone. Martin O'Malley should be removed for negligence. Lenny Hamm as well. This is simply not acceptable.

Anonymous said...

Of course if the Baltimore Police Department claims that the right thing to do is shoot a kid in his mother's home (his mother is a officer in the department of corrections), excuse me if I'm skeptical.

Its unfortunate but the BPD does not have a lot of credibility, even beyond the questions of statistics.

Anonymous said...

The sad fact is, as long as O'Malley has a (D) after his name, he'll never need to fear not getting votes in Baltimore City.

John Galt said...

Hmmmmmmmmm.


Hmmmmmmmm.


Maybe the answer is to make him a liability to the party.

Hmmmmm.

Anonymous said...

Galt,

You used quotes around "no one should ever be held responsible for their conduct".

Who said that? Or are you putting words in someone's (or no one's) mouth?

Also, you started with the incident about the shooting and then swithced to commentary on subsidized housing and healthcare?? What's up with that? Non-sequitor, don't you think?

FWIW, it was a tragic situation and the officer was most likely justified. But, I don't think that tragic incidents like this should be held up as some kind of "I told you so" rant about everything that is wrong with society.

Anonymous said...

I was putting words in the mouths of the protesters.

The rant was about the expectation that young people (and others) seem to expect that they can behave in outrageous ways and then explain it away without consequence.

The consequence of crime is generally handed out by municipal government, but in our case, the discourse among our City officials has been more about handing out money than handing out justice. They can't be laying that nonsense on cops. Cops aren't there to nurture.

If you do not have adequate resources to make the City safe, then you certainly don't have enough to provide discretionary support services.

The woman called the cops and then complained that they did their job. The kid was violent.

If what she wanted was someone to mother him, she shouldn't have dialed 911. That job would be.... hers. But Baltimore folks never hold to account the one who dropped the ball. The people at the rally just want 'society' to swoop in and provide resources until all the problems vanish. Uh-uh. Don't work that way.

Assaulting an officer is a very serious matter, no matter what the age of the assailant. It can get you killed, and should if sufficiently threatening. The notion that the officer should jeopardize himself so as to give the kid the greatest benefit of the doubt is nonsense.

If we're completely convinced that the kid posed no hazard at all, then what was probably needed was a "You're a substandard mother." rally, not a "Lay it off on the cops." rally. I'm betting he had emotional issues.

Anonymous said...

Was this a separate rally or was it the funeral that was reported to have "turned into" a rally.

If it was the latter, I don't think its possible to read too much into whatever was said. People in extreme grief say all kinds of things.

John Galt said...

I didn't hear grief. I heard a rejection of the principle of responsibility.

I'd bet you'd hear the same if you spoke to the protesters today.