Also in the county, 16-year-old Franklin Leroy Smith is charged as an adult with the murder of Warren Porter, 24.
And another 15-year-old MD boy charged with murder. Zachary James is accused of killing Michael Freeman, 32, on the 3400 block of Park Heights Avenue on Labor Day.
A 26-year-old man was shot in the NW by a police officer early this morning.
Down in DC, Walter C. Anderson was found guilty of three federal tax-evasion charges, making him officially the Biggest Tax Cheat in American history.
Former head of the Guatemalan DEA pled guilty to atttmpting to smuggle coke into the US.Baltimore health commissioner Joshua Sharfstein has banned lead-packed kohl Asian eyeliner after two toddlers were poisioned. (Were the parents putting eye makeup on the toddlers?)
Noemi Espinoza Quezada and Ricardo Espinoza Perez were interviewed by the AP. Backs up my theory that Guadelupe put the two guys up to killing the children to get back at Victor and Maria.
So that's the reason behind the hilarious campaign slogan, "vote from the bottom up." Speaking of, who are these judges? How are they doing? Anybody know? And did anyone know that there's an election for Baltimore City Sheriff, between one Shelton J. Stewart and one John W. Anderson? Who are these people? TG for the League of Women Voters and their info sheets, especially the ones that tell you where you are and what to think.
Accused spy Susan Lindauer sounds like an interesting character.
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Y'now, the one thing about the pillories... if we built enough of them to accommodate the population of this town, we'd spur an evironmental crisis. No more trees. So, unanswered crime is Green.
FYI, a man was shot by a policeman on or about the 4000 block, Oakford Ave. about an hour ago. Apparently, he fled a stop for questioning.
• 2711 Jefferson Street STASH HOUSE
• 2713 Jefferson Street STASH HOUSE
• 2715 Jefferson Street STASH HOUSE
• 2719 Jefferson Street STASH HOUSE
• 2710 Orleans Street STASH HOUSE
• 2709 Orleans Street STASH HOUSE
• 2704 Orleans Street STASH HOUSE
• 411 N.Belnord STASH HOUSE
• 419 N.Belnord STASH HOUSE
• 420 N.Belnord STASH HOUSE
• 509 N.Kenwood Ave. STASH HOUSE
• FROM 9AM - 7PM
Jefferson Street Bloods
who is this stash house guy and what exactly does he want? you want me to call the cops?
"hello, 911, what is the nature of your emergency."
"uh there's some stash houses on jefferson and orleans"
"can you describe what specific activity you've witnessed that makes you think they're stash houses"
"uh, some guy on the internets told me"
is this an advertisement? Am I supposed to go to one of these stash houses? wtf?
.. and what are they stashing?
I love how they have the same hours as a family coffee shop. I wonder if they also take an hour for lunch and have a seista. Wouldn't it be great if there was a diner with good food that was also a hash bar? This is what we need to do, be the Amsterdam of the mid-Atlantic. Sell your whatever, but sell it in a real store, like a coffeeshop or internet cafe or laundromat. So we know who you are and vice versa, and we don't officially approve of what goes on, but in practice we let it go on as long as it poses no threat to public safety. It's worked for hundreds of years elsewhere.
Go to Pennsylvania Ave. Those are real stores and, yes, you can get any narcotic you'd like.
Instant Amsterdam. What's that you say? It's not the same?
That's because the people involved are hoodlums.
There's no way around the fact that we have a large behaviorally substandard population. Beyond about age 12, people are pretty much set in their behavior.
As long as people in Baltimore are allowed to bring up hoodlums, there will be nothing cool and cosmopolitan about this city as a whole.
I'm beginning to think that children should be placed in residential dorms as wards of the state unless the parents can bond their parental responsibilities. That still leaves open the question of how a city that cannot teach 2+2=4 can teach right from wrong. But clearly someone's got to do it.
Ugh.
I just watched an interview with a couple of youth violence professionals from Montg'y Co. and from Johns Hopkins Public Health who speak of gang activity being caused by a lack of family, lack of economic opportunity, etc. subsumed in what they call a public health approach.
The discussion is all about nonactors awash in influences from the world around them. Being gang members happens to them, apparently.
I have a radical idea. If you want Air Jordans but you have no job... do without them. 'You can't always get what you want.'- M. Jagger If your family sucks... join the club.
This idea of treating adversities as a public health problem is much overused.
I'm hungry. I want a filet mignon from Ruth's Chris Steak House. I cannot afford to eat at that joint. Aha!! Let's take a public health approach. Free steak. But I'm really not dressed for that joint. Aha!! A free three-piece suit from Brooks Brothers. Hey, it's a matter of public health.
How about the violence part? The interviewees seemed to take the view that once you accept gang membership as a valid social choice, the violence is just part of the package. No personal responsibility. Society caused them to join a gang, gang members are expected to pull triggers, so society caused them to pull the trigger.
Bullsh!t. Bullsh!t. Bullsh!t.
If the parents are not capable of parenting, terminate their parental rights. As for the young people, absent the involvement of a responsible parent/guardian, they have no darn rights, other than freedom from abuse.
Broaden curfews to preclude daylight assembly of more than a very small number of minors in public places without parental or surrogate supervision.
i disagree with much of what you say, Galt, but love reading your posts. I'm curious - after you terminate parental rights, then what?
wow, galt, I remember bickering with you about the public health thing back when you first started commenting. Those were the days... (misty eyed)
Well, if responsible parents are not available to bear the burden of supervision, then some reasonably public entity would be implicated. Since I wouldn't trust Baltimore government to feed my cat, I'm kinda thinking maybe the Roman Catholic Church would like a buncha proselytes.
Create a massive, enclosed residential campus for (effectively) orphaned children. West Baltimore comes to mind. The parents are to have no rights. Children receive rights as adults upon graduating, or otherwise aging out. Hopefully, they also receive some socialization training and so become decent, even if very Catholic, citizens.
And no, I'm not Catholic. I just can't think of any other entity that would want the young detritus of Baltimore.
But I'm sick and tired of having them foisted upon me. Last week I had an at-risk youth[aka a young street punk] pursued for operating an unlicensed, unregistered motorbike come fleeing up into my yard. When he was taken down, he had a semiautomatic handgun on him. I don't need this crap. These people are a hazard, as much as any plague. Time to quarantine the little bastards.
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