Sunday, September 16, 2007

September 16

Three more murders. The unid'd man killed yesterday was identified as Brian Smith-Hopkins. Also, reports JZ:
- At 11:38 p.m. Saturday night, Tyrone Jones, 26, was shot and killed on the 1500 block of North Woodyear. He was pronounced dead at Shock Trauma.
- At 4:30 p.m. Sunday, two men were shot on the 3400 block of Belair Road. Both were pronounced dead at area hospitals.

Antoine Skipwith, who "walked off from the Baltimore City Correctional Center," robbed a bank customer in HoCo with a buddy, then drove his car into a ditch.

How can this article about police shootings not mention the fact that the department is still understaffed by some 200-300 officers? Doesn't it seem pretty obvious that understaffing puts officers in life-threatening, backup-less situations more often, not to mention leaving more criminals out there?
Instead it blames everything from police training to gangs to O'Malley. Huh?

5 comments:

John Galt said...

Cybes, on the correlation between inadequate manpower and officers blowing dudes away, you're obviously failing to recognize the complex interplay of manifold socio-economic circumstances.

Far too complex to draw causative conclusions anytime within the next electoral cycle.

John Galt said...

Another police-involved shooting, up here just now on Belgian Ave.

Caederus said...

"walked off from the Baltimore City Correctional Center" sounds so much better than "escaped from the Baltimore City Correctional Center"

Either they want to improve the self image of the guards (as in Joe didn’t fail the class he just didn’t pass the class), or doing time at the BC Correction Center is now voluntary.

John Galt said...

Joe,
Is there really any difference between the world inside and the city (Baltimore B, of course) outside the prison wall ?

Baltimore City is a prison colony.

John Galt said...

Can I get a witness ?