One you may have heard before: the crime decline of the '90s was related to the elimination of lead in gas in the 70s.
One you probably haven't: avoiding criminals by disguising yourself as a vending machine.
Killadelphia's crime-fighting volunteers are about to get training to patrol the streets for 90 days, and Bodymore waits to see what will happen.
(Alleged) PDJ = Nicholas J. Arminio.
Arminio surrendered his New Jersey teaching license in 1994 after two female students separately accused him of inappropriate touching. The state of Maryland didn't know that when he applied for teaching credentials and took a job at [Eastern Technical High School,] in Baltimore County. He eventually resigned and lost that license, too. Even so, until this month, he was coaching football at another Baltimore County high school [Perry Hall High] in a job that does not require a teaching license. After the AP started asking questions, he was fired.Arminio claims the Toms River, NJ allegations were made up by teenagers seeking attention.
Sure, smoking kills more Baltimoreans than violence or drugs... but gunshot wounds don't have that cool, smooth flavor.
HoCo is offering 5,000 clams to whomever can find gas station robber Terrence Edward Boone, 24, and his 14-year-old accomplice Shawn Timothy Crockett (they're from Baltimore of course).
Most of the hijacked diesel fuel stolen on Friday was recovered from an underground tank in Washington.
Sad: A MD state trooper, Sgt. Pride T. Rivers, shot and killed himself Saturday morning on the corner of West South and South Bentz streets in Frederick.
News of the Weird: Money magazine "just ranked Mount Vernon as one of the top 35 best places to retire."
Thought-provoking headline: "Methodists Meet to Evaluate Transgenderism, Starting With Baltimore Pastor"
8 comments:
From what I've read on the assembly of males to stare down murder in Philly, it's not exactly a crime-fighting program. It's about black males advocating for lower violence in their neighborhoods because it's in their self-interest.
So, does this grass-roots army intend to intervene in theft or burglary incidents? Nope. Street muggings? Nope. Vandalism. Nope.
It's not about tightening up on crime. It's about de-lethalizing the manner in which (tolerated) crime is conducted (in black communities). Consequently, I'm not really very supportive on a theoretical basis.
To maintain the total crime rate, yet reduce the lethality of it to a target population of at-risk males is almost a sanction of the underlying antisocial behavior.
Safe Crime 101: How to do it without getting killed.
In all fairness to Money magazine, their survey was limited to people who choose to live only in a metropolitan area. Second, they're looking at accomodations costing twice the median housing price in Baltimore City, with Mt. Washington serving as a second-best choice.
That's hardly gettin' down with the homeys. This is about flitting from a $300,000 two-bed condo with doorman to a pricey restaurant to a museum by daylight, not communing with the man-on-the-street in Baltimore at a bus stop under a broken streetlight at night.
Yes, life in Baltimore A can be very enjoyable. No surprise. So is living in Guilford. Until Baltimore B makes its presence known.
Money magazine doesn't usually cover those stories.
Several weeks ago on NPR they talked to the then outgoing police chief of Philly. His view of the group was to increase the number of witnesses on the street that would go to court as witnesses. As Galt pointed out they would in no way intervene. The only difference between this and a neighborhood watch is the people doing the watching don't live in the immediate area.
BTW the police chief planned on joining after he retired.
I had a bad night so I'm nit picking.
I've come to expect sloppy reporting from the local news outlets. But I thought the NY Times was above this. In the vending machine article they have the line, "made with the same material as Kevlar". Kevlar is the material. "made with Kevlar" how hard is that?
grumble, grumble...
One final contribution for the morning. My mother lives in Perry Hall. The PDJ football coach has alot of community support. For what ever reason the community is going on about, "he's a good coach", "the case in NJ was weak", "he was never given his day in court", "he was allwasy nice to me", all culminating in bring him back.
My opinion, if there is the slightest hint of a problem get the guy out. Entering a deal to avoid going to court is more than a hint.
joe:
I'm a little wary of pronouncing the guy a perv and ruining his life if he was never convicted of anything. He may very well be a sleazebag, but you never know what's behind these sorts of stories.
Irwin's back.
bentz street in frederick has become quite a popular place for public domestic-related suicides.
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