Police are still looking for a third suspect, one David Robinson, left, after the "wild, strip-club shootout" at Fantasies. He may be driving an Audi with the MD tag 2CFR05.Police have arrested Korey Harris, 17, for the murder of Christopher Wayman on April 19.
After all these years, will we ever cease to be offended at the way the Blotter marginalizes (literally) horrible violent crimes? Tuesday and Wednesday, by the way and p. fucking s., a 17-year-old was shot in the leg, a 25-year-old was shot in the back, and three people were stabbed in two different incidents.
A missing 18-year-old from Dundalk, Raymond Zubrowski Jr., was found in a shallow grave in Dorchester County.
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"...the 11th fatal police shooting so far this year (!!)."
Yet in the next listed blurb (Fantasies) the article you link to states: "It was the second time in 2007 that Baltimore police have shot and killed someone."
Eleven and two are not even close, and eleven seems an extremely alarming number. What gives?
By the way, I enjoy your blog. It is a good way to keep up with my old neighborhoods. Thanks.
the police have shot 11 people this year. 2 have died. 9 have not died. baltimore city police have killed fewer people this year than baltimore county police.
sorry, 3 have died, 8 have not died.
Just saw another interview with Sheila D. She says she's counting on educational initiatives to solve the crime problem in this town. Ain't gonna happen, babe.
Now, regarding your plan to implement Boston's style of crime control through youth intervention, understand that Baltimore is a qualitatively different place.
While Boston and Baltimore have a similar share of their respective states' violent crime, Baltimore City's share of MD urban crime is about 4 times that of Boston's share of MA urban crime.
What it means is that crime is a norm for a far larger segment of our male population than in Boston. Here, you're not talking about a handful of really bad guys. You're talking about a vast population of habitually antisocial hoodlums. You're basically proposing to undo a quarter century of neglect in behavioral oversight. Ain't gonna happen. Unfortunately, this town's got two generations of essentially unreformables in need of incapacitation, rather than repair.
"baltimore city police have killed fewer people this year than baltimore county police."
What gives?
I guess with the chronic man-power shortages, our brave boys and girls in blue don't have time to go the firing range for some practice.
Another problem Commissar Hamm needs to attain to.
Give the cops more powerful guns. If a scumbag is killed rather than injured when shot by the cops it would save a lot of money on medical care.
see, i was thinking that the baltimore county police were killing an abnormally large amount of people this year, not that the city police were slacking off and not killing "enough" people. i'd rather they didn't kill anybody if it can be avoided.
Well, one way or another some really very ill-behaved people need to be kept away from the rest of us.
When the cops' experience is that the courts don't intend to accomplish this and that their good arrests don't incapacitate the hoodlums, the alternative is what, to put them in a rocket to Gliese 581 c ?
Ha, I was reading about that in the NYT today!
Too bad we don't have the technology to get there... and why should the criminals get to colonize the new, clean planet?
Want to see something depressing? Watch LAPD on Patrol or Highway Patrol. They tell you the final results of the arests. Easily 80% of charges are dropped. It's not like what you think is happening watching the classic Cops show, with criminals paying for their crimes in the end, at least when they are caught.
It must be tough for cops to even bother going after anything less than murder when the justice system is going to make you look foolish in the end by dropping all charges repeatedly.
I'd rather wished that the police didn't have the large amount of criminals to shoot at.
Don't blame the trashman for the amount of rubbish he has to pick up.
hey i understand that there are times when police have no choice but to shoot suspects, and i'd rather the suspect died than a cop. but when i said the county police had killed more people this year than the city (which was wrong by the way, both agencies have killed the same number of people this year), y'all were like "wtf is wrong with our cops?! why aren't they killing more people??!" which is a fucking nauseating attitude to have. i was raised a catholic, and although i consider myself an agnostic now, i still possess the respect for all human life that i was taught.
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