Tuesday, January 16, 2007

January 16

Two teenage girls, one of them pregnant, were shot in Park Heights.

David Wesley was arrested for trying to kill his brother-in-law and setting fire to his front lawn.

State Trooper Rafael Rayes has been suspended and charged with liking teenage girls way too much.

Questions remain about activist/businessman Robert Clay's alleged suicide, and police continue to be uncooperative.

Sheila's going to bring us a "more holistic approach to crime". This should be good.

Convicted murderer Lawrence Borchardt doesn't want to be murdered killed by the will of the people of Maryland.

Cynthia Putty has returned home safely.

The Examiner headline says it all: "Columbia Mall seeing increase in crime and accidents as it expands."

It's like Romeo and Juliet, but with the guards as the Montagues and the inmates as the Capulets.

We cant spel.

Skateboarding is not a crime. Stealing skateboards, however, is.

Lots of purse snatchings, cell phone robberies, and stolen computers.

11 comments:

John Galt said...

Yeah, he's one of the kind she's not sure she wants to arrest in her 'holistic' approach.

For those following Charles Village, two more robberies in the police blotter.

Maurice Bradbury said...

We tried the 'holistic approach' 10 years ago!!
(Not Jaimetab style, but still)
we've got PAL centers everywhere! But the overall police attitude (and Commissioner Norris' at the time) was, and surely will be again, "we're here to police, not be social workers."

And if the police don't buy in...
I'm glad to be reaching the point of being totally desensitized to massive amounts of goverment money, MY money*, being wasted on projects that never go anywhere--- frequently the same project that's gone nowhere in the past decade with a new name.

*Don't forget, my self-employed friends, to pay your quarterly taxes today!

John Galt said...

I dunno....

Last time I spoke with the Commissioner, he seemed to be saying he was more interested in social work than policing.

Mind you, he wasn't really offering to actually do either one.

John Galt said...

Keiffer Mitchell suggested requesting State Police. Ehrlich said OK. O'Malley refused to authorize it on their own recognizance. He wanted them to be subject to his supervision, which is kinda the problem to start with.

John Galt said...

It seems that would first require that O'M admit that we have a crime problem, inherited from the previous administration, which would be attributable to....... ??

This is why I've been so firmly opposed to his candidacy. He has a vested interest in supressing any discussion of crime in Baltimore.

Jill Carter may now be the only advocate or public safety in Annapolis. God knows, Maggie Macintosh certainly has done nothing helpful.

Maurice Bradbury said...

Stinky sez,
State troppers in Charles Village?
I'd hump their legs in happiness!

John Galt said...

Facts relative to Ms. Dixon's thinking:

Of the 10,000 permanent prisoners released each year in Maryland, 6,000 will return to Baltimore City. Of these, 3,600 will head back to incarceration within two years. Additionally, most will have been multiply arrested before recommitment.

Most 'clean up' from heroin abuse while inside, but 80-90% relapse upon release, which suggests that they were not 'ready' candidates, but were instead were forced to clean up. All this suggests that while 'ready' candidates for drug treatment are a good investment, involuntary treatment is largely a waste.

So, when Mayor Dixon advocates Treat, Don't Incarcerate, she'll likely accomplish but little of either.

I think the puppy needs a new name. Stinky may be reserved for the incoming administration.

Anonymous said...

carles street...

Maurice Bradbury said...

I like the stained-glass window in the stairwell of my daughter's (public) school that says "knowledge is it's own reward."

John Galt said...

The first of many foolish choices by Mayor Dixon. First pork, now Hamm.

Anonymous said...

Your second sentence assumes involuntary abstinence constitutes "treament." Forcing one to abstain from using is not treatment... that's what, if anything, it shows.

Effective treatment is expensive; and the good folks of MD ain't into spending money to clean these city folk up. It will remain the same until we kick all the poor people outta B-More (a la Rudy in NYC), or we spend money to educate, create jobs, and clean the people up.

Police ain't gonna do jack...

Galt: Most 'clean up' from heroin abuse while inside, but 80-90% relapse upon release, which suggests that they were not 'ready' candidates, but were instead were forced to clean up. All this suggests that while 'ready' candidates for drug treatment are a good investment, involuntary treatment is largely a waste.