Wayne Baboolal was charged in the murder of Washeeda Ali Siahpoush, the Virginia woman whose body was found in Owings Mills.
47-year-old Cynthia Putty has been missing since January 4.
Funny how when people at the Harbor are targeted, a meeting about crime just isn't adequate. No, this time, they've called for a school assembly!!! (Oh, and students from Digital Harbor High are "no longer allowed to walk through the Harbor but must walk around it." How does one walk through a Harbor?)
Gun advocates are trying to give us the right to carry concealed weapons.
The mayor of Aberdeen is taking on the City Council over a date book.
I wonder if the possibility of a felony conviction is really worth $2?
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And once again it is clear: tourists are first class citizens; the rest of us don't matter.
The double-shooting in my neighborhood doesn't even make the news, but any incident by the high-and-mighty Harborplace and they call out the marines.
I got a kick out of this line in the right-to carry article:
"acknowledging that right-to-carry won’t pass until the GOP wins control of the General Assembly"
Until they win control? Give me a break, the Examiner acts as if that's something that's going to happen.
The issue is only partly Harbor Place; the Digital High students walk along the Harbor Place walkway and then through Federal Hill.
And yes, it is a bigger deal when crime starts happening on a recurring basis in Federal Hill or the tourist areas, because (a) it's imported, not domestic, crime, and (b) those sort of places are the only sources of net revenue fo the city. Fuck them up, and the city REALLY has problems.
Mark my words -- Digital High kids start bringing crime into Harbor Place and Federal Hill, and the city will close the high school and reopen it as an application-only academy. And the vast majority of perfectly good kids who go to that school and get to take advantage of all the new resources it has will be totally screwed.
Because every resident of Federal Hill, no matter how enlightened and liberal and etc., etc., is looking at these Digital Harbor stories, looking at the students who are almost all from some place other than Federal Hill, and thinking: I paid $500,000 for my house. Go act like animals in your own fucking neighborhood. And yes, all of the students there will be tainted by the actions of a few. Life is hard that way.
Schools everywhere are an inconvenience for purposes of traffic and noise, but when they are correlated with violent crime incidence, you know you have a problem.
Now, mind you, this is not a 'special needs' school, but rather a magnet school. This is indicative of a fundamentally defective City. I'd bet that the ones who did it have a long history of questionable behavior, which is not properly dealt with by school officials. It seems to me that if you step out of line you should be unceremoniously transferred back to Southern.
In that way, the other students do not get stuck with the taint of misbehavior.
Hi All, Just got back from New Orleans and I'll tell you it's way worse than Baltimore right now. I stayed mostly downtown and in the French Quarter but rented a car and drove around the city.
It was scary. Much of the city is still wrecked with block after block of abandoned neighborhoods. I drove around the 9th ward and only saw a few repair crews and the oddly placed man on a bike that was obviously up to no good. Not a cop to be seen.
I was there for the ralley and the major complaint was not only the number of murders, but the failure of police to capture and prosecute the murders. I heard numbers ranging from a 7% to 12% conviction rate.
Like Baltimore's Harborplace, the French Quarter was fine and safe for tourists, and also like Baltimore a short drive or walk in any direction leads you to a nightmarish world that even I as a life long Baltimore Resident was eager to run from.
I suppose the striking difference between B-more and NO is that NO only has Downtown and the French Quarter whereas B-more has larger pockets of middle class/working class neighborhoods that are sustainable.
Just a few thoughts. Here's a link to the NO Times comment section on crime. The complaints in NO are similar to complaints about Baltimore crime.
http://inyourownwords.blogs.nola.com/default.asp?mode=blog&category=52277
Double-shooting of teenagers at the 3400 block, Cliftmont around 2:30 p.m. today.
The funny thing in all of this - if O'Malley BELIEVED in Hammbone as much as he claimed to, we wouldn't be worried about him doing anymore crappy work in Baltimore because he'd appoint him to be superintendent of the Maryland state police. But the fact is this - he knows that Hammbone's a screwup and won't risk his precious political career to elevate him. Can't blame the guy, I guess.
I guess the hypocrisy of this place has really shined over the past two weeks. In Baltimore the safety of tourists is critical. But in 'Galtimore,' we're irrelevant.
The worst part in all of this? More attention has been paid to a football game than these statistics. I guess in the same way more attention is paid to the pretty harbor than anywhere else in this town.
So, I'm thinking we all pack up and move to Dundalk. Who wants to come with?
"oddly placed man on a bike that was obviously up to no good. Not a cop to be seen." Welcome to my world!! thats just like the 2700 block of Jefferson Street .....
Baltimore: a town which is half shrouded in Ravens purple and half tinted by Bluelight camera.
Why wasn't Dante Watson's attack and death put in for this month?
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