Christopher Clark(e) was an honors physics student with no criminal record who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Late yesterday afternoon, two more people were added to the city's murder roll. At about 6:00, police found a man who'd been shot to death in an apartment on E. 43rd St. several hours earlier. At about 5:15, 20-year-old Charles Hargrove was taken to Shock Trauma, where he died about 30 minutes later. He had been shot several times in the head on the 1500 block of Rayner Ave.
Lamar Damian Fleming was Annapolis' second murder of the year. The killing occurred Monday night in the Bywater Mutual Homes community.
A body was found next to the USS Constellation in the Inner Harbor.
Vaughan Lamont Garris was arrested for the death of Chontae Waters. Garris was Waters' next door neighbor.
Two movers in Sykesville got into a fight over a palate jack on Monday. One of the men was stabbed, the other charged with attempted murder.
The Blotter tells of a shooting, two shootings, a shooting, a shooting, and an arrest.
Two separate attacks in Glen Burnie yesterday.
Carroll County, the last county in the state to rely entirely on the Maryland State Police, is establishing its own police department.
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The Carroll County story made me wonder why some counties have their own police department, while others use the sheriff's department for law enforcement. I understand that a police chief is a county employee whereas a sheriff is an elected official, but is there a particular reason that it's usually the more populous, less rural counties that rely on a police department for law enforcement?
So, if the 45 state troopers at Westminster are gonna be replaced, howzabout assigning them to Charles Village-Harwood-Waverlies ?? Oh, that's right, Baltimore wants to spend the 4.8MM on the convention hotel, whose occupants can watch from the upper floors as bodies float down from the harbor
Unfortunately, ours are very, very usual.
The reason Carrol County (like any county) needs it's own police force is simple egonomics. If the county has the tax base to support an effective police department than it gets one, if not, the state must provide. Carrol County has been a farming community (with a relatively low population), now that the housing development took off there, the now have the population to support it own police.
No deep conspiracy, just the county is growing.
If the county has the tax base to support an effective police department than it gets one, if not, the state must provide.
OK, so what's holding up the State Police deployment to Baltimore City ??
This is the 2nd time the tourists have had a body right in front of them.
you mean second time in the past two years? as i understand it this is a perennial occurrence, and has been for a long time. who's to say it's even a murder at this point? last year's was never called a murder.
oh wait you're probably referring to the gunshot victim who was driven to the hyatt, right?
The issue of State Police and Baltimore is jurisdiction. The primary unit resposible for the policing of Baltimore is the BPD by way of the city council. Just like the Public Works is responsible for the city roads not the state. MSP can (and does on quite a few occasions) enter Baltimore if the need arises.
The shooting of Christopher Clark has really bother me. I've been around a lot of bad scenes in my life, but his death has humbled my recent attitude of disgust with the failure of the city government to just saddness. I think I would have liked to have known him.
Hey Cyb and Chuck, did either of you see the 11 o'clock news on WBAL? They mentioned an officer involved in a car crash... it was outside the Rendezvous while I was working and... here's the kicker... the cop actually hit the person who was none other than my hubby!!! He got rear ended because the cops were chasing a suspect they pulled over and then fled, which, by the way isn't there like a no chase law? And he came around the corner at I-83 sppeds. Luckly for my hubby he was stopped at the light and didn't get t-boned when his car drifted into the intersection of howard and 25th st.
His car runs but the back end is screwed up .
I liked how they didn't mention the cop was driving over the limit chasing someone what with our no chase in the city laws.
lis sis, I'm glad yours is fine, though I believe the no-chase law has some exceptions.
Galt, I just now understood your post. Please ignore my reply.
While homicide is up 21%, shootings are up over 50% in two years, Mayor Dixon wants to hike water bills by 30% and hand out generous raises to city leaders.
Meanwhile, the budget for police remains unchanged after COLAs.
And she has the unmitigated gall to 'meet' with young people about violence in their neighborhoods.
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