On April 13, 2007 Zeigler was walking in the 1600 block of McKean Ave. when approached by an unknown male wearing a blue hooded sweatshirt. The unknown male produced a handgun and started firing at Zeigler. Zeigler produced his own gun and started returning fire in a southerly direction toward Baker Street and the 1500 block of McKean. Neither Wayne Zeigler nor the unknown male were injured during this incident, but shortly after the shootout police and medics responded to 1521 McKean Avenue for a shooting victim. It was discovered that An 11 year old boy was shot in the arm. Investigation revealed that Wayne Zeigler was firing in the victim’s direction when returning fire from the unknown male. Assistant State’s Attorney David M. Grzechowiak of the Firearms Investigation Violence Enforcement (FIVE) Division prosecuted this case.Blotter: David Bishop, 32, was named as the murder victim stabbed May 27 in the 200 block of N. Gay St. Juan Taylor was identified as the man killed early Monday morning in the 3200 block of Brighton St.
Under a new law, David Lee Miller might be charged with murdering his pregnant girlfriend's unborn baby.
Bones were found in the bedroom of a boarded-up house in the Northeastern, surrounded by vintage adult magazines.
CP: Baltimore has far more cops than the national average, and furthermore, more cops do not equal fewer murders.
Meawhile, the Examiner ran a very similar story.
Rodricks: hire more cops and pay them more.
The Ink details the killings of Mustafa Ghulam, Demetrius Burnette, Craig Hunter, Melvin Jordan and Michael Simms, and updates.
A homeless man is being sought for setting a fire aboard the Lady Baltimore this morning.
In a shocking move, Sheila D. spoke at a forum and reassured city residents.
Carjacker/rapist Walter Jose Grey is going away for a long time. (Needless to say, he didn't commit his crimes in Baltimore.)
Jonathan McKinney was charged with arson for allegedly burning a house in Darlington, and Nicholas J. Moore was charged with arson for a May 24 fire in Westminster.
Jesse Woodrow Cornwell III, 32, and Diana Carmine Cornwell, 35, "a Pasadena husband and wife who offered her sexual services on a well-known Web site [aka Craigslist] while she was pregnant won't serve any jail time ... and will be able to raise their 2-week-old baby themselves."
Quote of the day: "He's a liar. His feet stink. And he doesn't love his Jesus. And you can print that." -- Mayorial candidate Frank Conaway Senior on BUILD spokesman Rob English
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oddly, today's Examiner has an article almost identical to the CP one.
The CP's article about the number of cops in Baltimore focused on the ratio of police to total inhabitants. It said nothing about the cop to criminal ratio. If you have more crimes that need to be investigated then obviously that soaks up lots of manpower. Comparing our numbers to the national average means nothing.
That article on Dixon had me ready to kick something:
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"When young people see that there are other opportunities and other choices that they make to become a productive citizen, I guarantee you they're not going to choose going out forming gangs or selling drugs," the mayor said during the community forum at Roland Park Presbyterian Church. "It's going to take all of us to bring about and really be the ministry, as I see it."
"Education, recreation centers and after-school programs that keep young people off the street are essential to solving the crime problem, Dixon said, adding that the city's budget surplus is helping to fund many such efforts."
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SO - In other words, she:
1) Has nothing to say about hiring more cops, and
2) Does want to frivolously spend more money on unnecessary programs?
I know she was a school teacher, but she clearly has a lot to learn about criminal justice. If they want to approach crime, they need to use less of the carrot here and more of the stick. You want to give kids more things to do? Fine, but fix the problems that clearly are in place here.
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Michelle Blue, executive director of the Follow Your Dreams Youth Center, an after-school program in Harwood, said it would take more than words to reassure her.
"A conversation doesn't put me at ease, you know," said Blue, who said some of the youth she works with are exposed to gang violence.
"I would like to give the mayor a chance," Blue said. "She's only been there for five months."
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Obviously Mrs. Blue knows little to nothing about Baltimore City Political History.
Why does this city get all the dumb voters?
Did you read Gregory Kane's column about how BUILD excluded Frank Conaway and Robert Kaufman from the mayoral debate? In some ways I have more respect for Kaufman than for Dixon. I mean sure he's a crackpot, but at least he's honest.
Of course I read Gregory Kane - he's the only person worth anything at the Sun if you ask me. :grins:
Problem is, he hit the nail on the head. Its a lot easier to get people excited and hopeful than to be brutally honest about how things are in the city. I gotta say, I don't like any of the candidates in the race at this point besides Kaufman (who I imagine would be honest about the issues with crime since he's a firsthand victim of them), and Conaway (I mean, how can you not like someone who talks trash like him?).
The Examiner and the City Paper could also run an article on the excessive fuel oil consumption of residents of Alaska, when other states on the West Coast burn so little by comparison. Why can't they just bask in the sun, like the Southern Californians ??
To see why our population is so much more police-intensive, see my post here about two weeks ago.
On the small metro police force in D.C., has someone forgotten that the nation's capitol is crawling with a small army of federal law-enforcement personnel who are not included in the DCPD payroll ?
Oh, and as for scholarly work on the variation of crime with police staffing, I'd refer the writers to Moody and Marvell (1997).
Incidentally, I believe the regression coefficient is about 24, as in UCR part I crimes deterred per incremental officer per year.
That employed a national urban center dataset, as I recall.
It's here.
"Police Levels, Crime Rates, and Specification Problems," (with T.B. Marvell) Criminology, 24, 1996, 606-646.
Maybe the next time the Examiner quotes an 'expert' like Sheldon Greenberg, they'll select one whose academic credentials weren't obtained online. The guy's a lifer from the HoCo PD. I'd hardly quote him on econometrics.
Oh, BTW, on the subject of getting feedback from the cop in the street... check this out.
Now, Blair has been clear that we need more cops to curb the crime.
Oh, and I quite agree with Michael White's observation. Police per capita is the wrong measure. Also, understand that often, crime actually increases after cops are hired.
Sound counterintuitive? Good. Remember, we said only a small fraction of crimes is reported to police and in Baltimore only a fraction of those are recorded. Once cops are hired, they can actually take your report. Hence, victims have greater inclination to report, so yes, reported crime may increase for a while after staffing the department. The number of actual crime incidents always deceases, however.
Grr, stupid examiner article. Maybe the BPD has a lower portion of officers in patrol because they have so many more crimes to investigate, therefore need more men in investigative units. I can't believe they're seriously suggesting that more cops = more crime.
'Course, you could always get it straight from the horse's mouth.
Well, this raises a good debate... could mismanagement of police forces and/or training be a reason why crime is so bad?
Mismanagement? Baltimore public officials don't know the meaning of the word.
Then again, having been educated here, clearly they don't know the meaning of most words.
We have a name for #140.
Hmmmm. So I'm not the only one so disappointed in the responses of interim Mayor Dixon.
Hire those cops, hon.
Goodness knows, you're not scoring any points as the education Mayor, since two out of every three seniors doesn't graduate.
Maybe you should hire San Antonio police chief McManus.
Twice our population, half our criminality left loose on the streets. All done with the same manpower.
Oh, and 1/3 of our homicides, BTW.
"Maybe you should hire San Antonio police chief McManus."
Is that link supposed to go to some article?
Even the examiner's "we don't need more cops" stated that they need more cops on Patrol. So we either pull people off of desk duty, or we increase staffing.
"Even the examiner's "we don't need more cops" stated that they need more cops on Patrol. So we either pull people off of desk duty, or we increase staffing."
Or remove cops from investigative units. That of course is a terrible idea. Baltimore's homicide detectives already work double the national average number of cases in a year, and I'm sure that it's just as bad for other units. Of course, more cops won't do much good without more judges and prosecutors so that we can put the hoodlums away once they're caught.
A 16yo was killed on the 2500 block of Linden Avenue around 2 AM this morning. I actually thought we might make it through two whole nights without a murder. Damnit.
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