More on the police shooting at Fantasies Nightclub in South Baltimore that left one robber dead and one wounded.
A 12-year-old girl was left alone on a sidewalk in a strange neighborhood after city police arrested her father during a traffic stop in November.
Richard Cannon was arrested in Knoxville (Washington County) after attacking his estranged wife and sending her to Shock Trauma.
There was an armed robbery at a Frederick movie theater.
Two people jumped into the Glynns Falls while trying to flee police in West Baltimore.
Two armed men robbed a Wachovia Bank in Hanover yesterday morning.
Calvin Mcrae got nine years for smuggling heroin in jigsaw puzzles.
HoCo thieves, one of whom got caught on video, are stealing from unlocked cars.
Paula Anderson got 18 months for stealing $317,000 from UMMC.
Criminal justice expert Tyrone Powers loves Hamm but says he's gotta go.
In non-Baltimore news, today marks the 13th anniversary of the plane crash that killed Juvenal Habyarimana. His death led to the most efficient genocide in the history of humanity, during which Rwandan citizens were murdered at the rate of 5 per minute for 100 days. Rwanda is smaller than the state of Maryland, and the people are nearly all Christian. Many who sought refuge in their local churches were slaughtered by their local political and/or religious leaders.
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In white collar crime news the City-funded Baltimore Area Convention & Visitors' Bureau undertakes to boost profits through anticompetitive practices:
In addition to his other initiatives, Noonan is perhaps most excited about a proposed Baltimore City-wide alliance that would unite area hotels and organizations. Through this alliance, the group would work together and sacrifice certain room blocks or set aside possible future reservations in order to provide the city with more bargaining chips for BACVA and other groups who are out marketing Baltimore.
The story is here.
And on the story abouthe f#@ked-up police department and the need for a more capable Commissioner, I say
Go kosher. No more Hamm!
And on that subject, county criminal justice practitioners decry the Baltimore City delegation's much-amended pig of a bill on street gangs.
At the rate he's a goin' with the House Judiciary Committee he chairs, good ol' Curt Anderson may be building up a big enough criminal constituency to run for Mayor.
In his letter to the Examiner, Democratic Party Chair Terry Lierman betrays just how beholden to the criminal class his organization truly is. And he has the nerve to tell all the Baltimore City mothers trying to keep their kids away from drugdealers that it's a 'black thing.'
Right or wrong, the alliance Noonan is describing happens in practically every major city. Big conventions draw a lot of visitors, and they choose venues that can secure large blocks of nearby hotel rooms. When someone travels across country to attend a convention in Baltimore, and they have to stay at a hotel near BWI because the Yankees are playing the Os, they think twice about coming back.
Re. Rwanda, add that to the giant list of all the horrible things over which Baltimoreans have such little control we may as well call it zero, including global warming, Darfur, Iraq, Jews vs. Palenstinians...
If we can's stop the war in our own city, what's the use of feeling bad about other places?
Ps. Girl Talk is playing the ottobar tonight!
So what should the police have done with the 12-year-old, taken her to foster care? Couldn't an officer have driven her to her mom's house?
Another failure of Baltimore is amount of pollution in the Glynns Falls.
If I was a semi-intelligent criminal and had to make a choice between a confrontation with the police and the god-awful carcinogens in that filthy creek, I think I might choose to be shot. At least if I survive the initial shooting I could be patched up, but once those poisonous waters enter the bodily, you might as well abandon all hope (think the end of Robocop when the weasel bad guy gets over in toxic liquid).
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