There's shocking, and then there's completely, utterly bananas: Judge Roger Brown sentenced Janice Jones, 27, and Dakia Frazier, 23, to time served for driving a woman to the police station and ordering her to recant an incriminating statement against Frazier's boyfriend, who's in jail for robbery and attempted murder. Unfreakingbelieveable!
Blotter: The man found in a burning car October 15 was named as Henry Mazyck, 39, of the 300 block of N. Kresson St. in East Baltimore.
The Ink has names, details of murders from October 15-19.
An armed robbery suspect
The Examiner lets parking-ticket victims share their horror stories.
The NAACP, Justice Maryland, Associated Black Charities and other groups are holding a "lie in" this Sunday-- they hope to have as many volunteers as official murder victims sprawled in War Memorial Plaza, each holding a number corresponding to a victim.
Wacky fact: "if Baltimore had New York's murder rate, the city would see just 29 murders per year."
19 comments:
We should encourage more inmates to commit suicide. It could save our justice system a lot of money.
Whoa, a criminal in Baltimore actually got a real sentence! Sadly he'll probably be paroled way too early. Write to your delegates in the state legislature and urge them to follow Virginia's lead and abolish parole in Maryland! No second chances for violent felons.
What does "...sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison, the first five to be served without parole" really mean?
25 years in jail, with only five served in jail? Sorry sounds like another make-believe sentence to me!
I think that means that he becomes eligible for parole after five years. He may still have to serve something like one third of the remaining twenty years. It's not enough, but if my guess is correct he'll do a little over a decade, which is pretty good for Baltimore. Of course if it were up to me he'd get the chair.
ppatin: I have had enough. You make me sick. A. The people at Central Booking have yet to be convicted of a crime. B. Many of the people who commit violent crimes have been victims of horrible, unspeakable acts of violence themselves. It's not an excuse, but it puts the blame squarely on the shoulders of the City government, including social services, parents and families. C. I work with young men who have been charged with violent crimes. I dare you to get to know a single one of them, to hear their life stories, and to then say that more of them should be committing suicide. You are sick.
Please spare me. Have you ever seen the criminal record of a typical Baltimore hoodlum? One dismissed or nol prossed case after another, until they finally do something serious enough or re-offend enough times that they get put away for a few years. Sure, a few inmates in Central Booking are innocent, but the overwhelming majority of them are guilty as sin. If they did the crime then I wish they'd off themselves and make this city a better place.
And for god's sake, stop making excuses for criminals. It is NOT the fault of the government or social services that some thug goes out and sticks a gun in an innocent person's face, burglarizes the homes of law-abiding citizens, or stomps a young man into a permanent coma for the fun of it. Criminals bear the sole responsibility for their actions. But hey, they're not burglarizing/mugging/stealing your car down in Columbia, so yes, let's give them all second or third or fourth chances. They only re-offend at a rate of what, 80%?
Unfortunately, ppatin, brain dead idiots like leda are the ones that pant and froth at the mouth in agreement when Dixon spouts out about "holistic" solutions to crime, and they're the ones that fill the jury toilet bowl to overflow and prevent criminals from doing any real time for their heinous acts. Enough already! Time to have a fucking statewide jury for these assholes here.
"Brain dead idiots" is rather harsh. Save that term for the knuckleheads who misspell profanity when vandalizing people's homes.
I understand that people don't like the idea of simply throwing the book at offenders, unfortunately I have never seen anything else that has even the smallest chance of working. "Treatment" and "rehabilitation" sound nice, but criminality and anti-social behavior are not diseases that can be cured. Occasionally you'll hear a cool story about someone who turns his life around, but for every one of those you get a couple dozen thugs who re-offend again and again and again.
Leda is also right that a lot of kids in Baltimore grow up in incredibly fucked up environments, but what are we supposed to do about that? Forcibly sterilize people? Create huge government child raising centers for all the kids of scumbag parents? The best thing we can do is create an environment where it is crystal clear that criminal behavior will not be tolerated, and where breaking the law carries tough consequences. Hopefully then fewer kids will be tempted to start down the path of hoodlumery.
The Patapsco shooting vic is now a casualty.
There should be an organized "lie in" next to those 200-300 somehow representing the number of convictions or arrests the suspected perp had on their record.
Have people stand in representing each perp holding a sign? showing their number of priors....
Or a "lie in" representing the number of unsatisfied warrants on the streets...
Now that may get some attention....
I hate to be a pest, but because I like this blog so much and grammar flows where my blood ought to be: it's "hanged," not "hung."
http://wsu.edu/~brians/errors/hanged.html
Thanks for the correction non!
I must say that was an exceptionally harsh remark even for you, pp...
we should encourage more inmates to get their ST (shit together), because 90% of them are getting out sooner or later.
*Sigh* everyone's a critic.
How about this, we should encourage inmates in Supermax to hang themselves instead. They've all been convicted, and if they were sent away to MCAC then they obviously did some pretty nasty shit.
Thanks Cybrarian for being reasonable about this. Yes, some of them are lost causes. Some of them aren't. Who are you all to decide who should die and who shouldn't?
You can assume whatever you want about me, I have no control over what you choose to think. I do however personally know 3 young men who are right now turning their lives around. Undoubtedly, you would have sentenced each of them to 10 years or more so that they could be "educated" by the fine teachers at ECI then come back to Baltimore. Or perhaps that's what you want so you can continue to blame all the problems of society on a small group, instead of trying to fix them.
"I do however personally know 3 young men who are right now turning their lives around. Undoubtedly, you would have sentenced each of them to 10 years or more so that they could be "educated" by the fine teachers at ECI then come back to Baltimore."
Yes, I would send them away for a long time. Look at the statistics on recidivism, the overwhelming majority of criminals will re-offend. The rate in Maryland is approximately 80% last time I checked. I'm not willing to release five criminals so that one of them can turn his life around while the other four go back to robbing, beating, raping and killing.
You also talk about fixing society's problems, but what specific measures would you suggest we take? Locking criminals up is the only thing that has ever been shown to prevent most of them from re-offending. Therapy, counseling and other feel-good programs have pretty abysmal success rates.
It would also be great if we could prevent them from turning to a life of crime in the first place, but what specific measures would you suggest we take in order to do that? I believe that part of the reason that so many kids in this city turn into criminals is because those who are currently breaking the law receive such weak punishment. If you go grow up in an environment where only the most extreme anti-social behavior earns anything more than a few months in the city jail what does that tell you? It says that crime is ok.
Finally, I believe that victims of crimes are entitled to retribution. Would you tell a woman who's been raped that her attacker will be let go after serving only a few months because we could prevent her attacker from re-offending? Will the fact that Brandon Grimes probably grew up in a completely horrific environment be of any comfort to the orphaned son of Det. Troy Chesley?
"we should encourage more inmates to get their ST (shit together), because 90% of them are getting out sooner or later."
Unfortunately most of them will not get their shit together no matter how much we encourage them. Imprisonment is the only thing that works. Take a look at CA's three strikes law. It's incredibly harsh, but there is strong evidence that it works (obviously you can't prove that it was beneficial, social "science" being what it is). Can you think of any other method or program that even semi-reliably prevents repeat felons from re-offending?
A guillotine ?
It continues to amaze me how many people worry about the poor troubled hoodlums but couldn't give a damn about the average law abiding shmo that has to go about their daily business in baltimore constantly worrying about getting car-jacked, curb stomped, raped, etc. etc.
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