Somebody's stealing catalytic converters in the County.
Anybody watch HBO's "Hacking Democracy"? Makes reference to the $55 million MD's given Diebold ... for machines that can be hacked in about 17 ways (at least that have been documented so far).
Thursday, November 2, 2006
November 2 - go to bed!
It does seem like more residential break-ins than the usual in the Northern.
Somebody's stealing catalytic converters in the County.
Anybody watch HBO's "Hacking Democracy"? Makes reference to the $55 million MD's given Diebold ... for machines that can be hacked in about 17 ways (at least that have been documented so far).
Somebody's stealing catalytic converters in the County.
Anybody watch HBO's "Hacking Democracy"? Makes reference to the $55 million MD's given Diebold ... for machines that can be hacked in about 17 ways (at least that have been documented so far).
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What about the 16 year old girl stabbed outside the market at Eutaw and Lexington last night? 6:30ish. Any word on her? I hear the guys they caught weren't the stabbers.
An individual was shot in the head last night on the 3400 block, Mayfield Ave.
Dude, if you tried to defend yourself against someone who broke into your home you'd probably be prosecuted. Patricia Jessamy cares more about protecting criminals than enforcing the law.
Here's a tip for Charles Village...don't give the crooks an opportunity. Leave nothing in your car. Lock your windows at home. Walk in groups. Don't park in shadows. Walk down the middle of the street, not the sidewalks. Never respond to anyone yelling at you. Talk loudly when walking. Talk to your neighbors. Leave your porch light on. Call the cops when crime occurs. Call the cops when you are suspicious of someone. Give this advice to every college kid you see. This is Baltimore, use common sense.
Not creating unreasonable opportunity is one thing, but not feeling comfortable walking down the street after sunset is quite another. Charles Village costs way too much for the amount of crime which pervades it.
Take a good look.
Not creating unreasonable opportunity is one thing, but not feeling comfortable walking down the street after sunset is quite another. Charles Village costs way too much for the amount of crime which pervades it.
well i took a good look and most of those dots are burglaries and larcenies from vehicles, not exactly stuff that makes me scared to walk down the street at night. jaimetab, i think i made fun of you once before when you posted some wild hyperbolic account of the "crime wave" in charles village. i don't know what you expected when you came from columbia or wherever, but charles village is pretty safe. i lived there for four years (two with a car that i parked on the street every night), and the most threatened i ever felt was the occiasional pack of fratboys calling me a "faggot" or something, and i stumbled home drunk and alone at 3 AM more than a few times. just lock your doors and don't get all scared every time you see a black person and you should be fine. if you must, get a security system and don't walk around alone at night. it's not like there's bullets flying around all the time like in galt's area (NO, i do not consider that to be charles village, and jaimetab if you live in harwood you should speak up so i can apologize to you).
The shooting this week on the 3200 block, Greenmount was seven blocks from JHU and three blocks from Abell Ave.
There was another on W. 27th.
The map is a starting point only: most crimes never show on it, even the ones for which reports were actually taken.
Is a CV resident supposed to think "Thank goodness I'm on the West side of the street where it's safe?" How safe can it be three blocks from a shooting? This is Baltimore logic. Only in Baltimore can the 'bad neighborhood' start a half block away from the 'good' one.
True, the Baltimore City police department actively encourages criminals to do their thing away from the nice boys & girls at Johns Hopkins by shooing them over to the black neighborhood (where they are understood to have free reign), but that would hardly give me comfort if I were their parents in Parsippany.
They're in the low-crime side of a high-crime neighborhood. Congrats.
look, i'm not saying people shouldn't be outraged about the overall crime in our city and want something done about it. i just think it's ridiculous to frame it as whining about their particular (relatively safe) neighborhood. jaimetab never once mentions the wider city in his/her post, only charles village and "our neighborhood." oh, and also how they want all the criminals to die. how constructive.
If Charles Village truely wants these nusiance crimes to go away the community needs to make a concerted and highly visable effort to fight crime.
Residents need to put the criminals on notice that this kind of activity will not be tolerated. Little Italy did it. Hampden sort of does it.
Simply put you need to change people's image of Charles Village from college kids with Playstations and Ipods free for the taking to we're watching you, we know you don't live on this street and if you try anything there's going to be trouble.
How do you do this without being racist. Talk to your neighbors so you know who lives on your street, who belongs and who doesn't.
Non, it's not fair to blame the victim (residents of Charles Village) for not "using common sense." I got my car broken into so many times I'd leave the doors unlocked. They'd break my windows anyway! You can do all of those things and be a victim anyway. If you really have 'common sense' you factor being a victim into the cost of living there.
I haven't heard anything about the stabbed girl or the shot person. Any details?
I can tell you that I spent many years as a neighborhood walker (aka Citizens on Patrol) in Charles Village and that the defect is not a failure to signal a distaste for crime.
The difference is that Hampden has about 1/10 the number of hoodlums on its periphery as Charles Village. The entire Greater Charles Village Statistical area (which includes greenmount, Harwood, and the Barclay community as well as the Johns Hopkins campus) has a population of about 17,000.
About half of that, or 8,500, is in tract 1202, which omits Harwood-Barclay. Tract 1202 (Charles Village) is proximately surrounded by about 1,800 active parole/probation cases, or one for each and every 3 1/2 adults in Charles Village.
It's like living next to the exit from the City Jail. What's needed is not citizen involvement. Nowhere are citizens more 'involved' than in bloody Charles Village. What's needed is a proportionate military response: the deployment of at least 100 police officers, distributed over 3 patrol shifts, off time, administrative, etc.
So that you have a basis for comparison, that's about the current size of the police force for the entire Northern District, including among others Charles Village, Hopkins, Hampden, Roland Park, Homeland, Guilford, Remington, Waverly, and Harwood.
You need many, many, many more cops. That you have massive crime is not at all surprising when you consider that you've only deployed a trifling police force. One could even argue that the crime is directly due to the Commissioner's persistent and premeditated negligence in this regard.
i don't think i'm a bad ass at all, i'm just saying that i and nearly all of my baltimore friends have spent several years living in charles village and i don't know anybody that has had as bad an experience as what is described by you and others on this blog. the only conclusion i can make from this is that you are doing something that makes you look like a mark to the criminals.
No. Incorrect inference. Charles Village is a problematic place. It sits in the nexus of criminality in Northern Baltimore. If you were not victimized over four years, that's not impossible. You were fortunate. Mind you, Charles Village crime is generally less violent than in Harwood or Barclay, but it is quite common. Property crime in CV is denser than in Baltimore as a whole, which itself is pretty bad.
Ok ok but anyone hear anything about the 16 year old girl who was stabbed outside the market?
i haven't heard anything.
crime has increased dramatically since August in my neighborhood. Robberies and numerous break-ins. I do not live in Northern.
Let me know which neighborhood and I'll supply contact info for your sector commander.
I live in West Hills. Within the last week, one of my neighbors was robbed at gun point, and two others had their homes burglarized. This is usually a fairly peaceful and quiet area. I've hard that there has been a severe increase in crime in Hunting Ridge as well, which is my neighboring community.
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