Thursday, November 1, 2007

November 1

A man was shot to death last night in an alley near Park Heights and Woodland Avenues. (thanks PP)

The man shot in Barclay yesterday has died.

Three shootings last night within less than an hour:
the first shooting occurred at about 9:50 p.m. when a man was shot in the face in the 2900 block of Woodland Avenue in northwest Baltimore. About 10 minutes later, a man was shot in the stomach at the intersection of Monument and Montford Avenue. A third man was shot multiple times about 30 minutes later in northwest Baltimore.

Blotter: A 16-year-old girl was kidnapped on Milford Mill Road about 11 p.m. Monday and released unharmed in the city; on Tuesday a man was shot in the arm during a robbery in Hanlon Park; a man was shot in the 800 block of N. Fulton Ave. about 1 a.m.; Two males, ages 14 and 19, were each stabbed in the stomach about 8 p.m. yesterday in the 1900 block of Etting Street.

The driver of what JZ called the "gold Infinite" that mowed down two officers was arrested yesterday afternoon in Bolton Hill.

It's WTF?! Day! (well, that's every day... but today is extra effed!)
How horrifying is the Elijah Cozart case? Lazara Arellano de Hogue's defense attorney reportedly apologized to the victim's parents. "I’m really sorry ... I just have to do what I have to do."

"A Baltimore City police cadet has been suspended while detectives investigate whether he was involved in the armed robbery of a McDonald’s in Parkville."

And the parking ticket scandal gets worse: contrary to city officials' claims that the bogus tickets were an isolated incident, a parking agent says that she reported habitual fake-ticket writing by an agent in 2005, but the city’s Department of Transportation did nothing about it.

Well, that's a relief: "A Maryland judge’s groundbreaking decision to disallow fingerprint evidence is not spreading like wildfire through the court system — at least according to a Baltimore County ruling Wednesday."

Sisters are doing it for themselves! Dealing drugs, that is.
Meanwhile, local law firm Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll has lost its attempt to halt a gender discrimination claim.

Snacks, a Honda, a Chrysler, an oven, range, dishwasher, washer and dryer & a weed trimmer= crap stolen in the Northern. Plus muggings as gun- and knife-point.

In St. Mary's County, trial is beginning in the case of Cory Ryder, a teen who tried to hire a hitman to kill his mom.

34 comments:

John Galt said...

Also in the Northern crime log, please note robberies at knifepoint and gunpoint on Calvert in Charles Village and at the Waverly Giant.

ppatin said...

That parking ticket story is hardly surprising. Anyone who's lived in Baltimore for a while knows that the occasional BS ticket is a part of living here, unfortunately.

John Galt said...

Yesterday's article on Baltimore City police deployment demonstrated that the manpower shortage remains essentially as before: 300 short of authorized manpower.

Baltimore has about 44,000 open warrants: around 5% of the U.S. total.

Baltimore has about 33,000 active supervised parole & probation cases on the streets: about 2/3% of the U.S. total.


The U.S. currently has around 850,000 full-time sworn law-enforcement officers. 2/3% of that would be 5,667 officers. 5% of that would be 42,500 officers.

What do we have? Around 2,900.

Not surprising that we're the most dangerous (large) city in the U.S.

John Galt said...

Three (possibly related) shootings last night in the news.

and The Examiner opines on City Councilman Jim Kraft's bid for gun-control powers.

Y'know, if you'd just put them in prison and keep them there, the guns would start to disappear.

ppatin said...

"Y'know, if you'd just put them in prison and keep them there"

Or hang them...

ppatin said...

I saw something weird in the article about the guy who ran down those two cops.

"More than $130,000 in cash and a large quantity of cocaine and marijuana were recovered in the apartment after members of the Western District's SWAT team broke down the door"

Since when do individual districts have their own SWAT teams?

ppatin said...

Last night seems like it would've been a good night to engage in hoodlumery, since a lot of police manpower was down in Fells Point. That probably left other parts of the city undermanned.

Anonymous said...

John Galt: What happened at the Waverly Giant?

John Galt said...

Robbery at gunpoint behind it.

John Galt said...

October 22, 4:09 p.m.

Broad daylight.

John Galt said...

At least our cops aren't being taken out at the rate lately in Philly.

ppatin said...

Yet another killing in Park Heights.

Maurice Bradbury said...

A 'non commentor defends "oricl"

John Galt said...

I fail to see how taking care of some person's child mitigates stabbing some neighbor with malice of forethought (not to mention a couple Ginsu knives) because one reserves the right to mistreat neighborhood (as in, four-legged)animals.

In my book, Oricl/Oracle/(henceforth known as Orifice) should get the Chair. Or at least a good reaming with one of its legs.

Anonymous said...

Facism alive and well in Baltimore County: "“We think Judge Cavanaugh’s ruling was correct based on the law and evidence in the case before him,” said Deputy State’s Attorney Leo Ryan. “Judge Cavanaugh recognized there is no dispute in the forensic community concerning the value of fingerprints as an evidentiary tool. The only dispute exists in the minds of criminal defense attorneys and academics.”"

A good fascist, when in doubt, attacks the "pointy-headed academics." Hitler did it, Il Dolce did it, so does the Baltimore County State's Attorney's Office.

Alas, I'm sure Mr. Ryan doesn't have a problem with the academics when they bring him plasma televisions and laser-guided bombs... but when they doubt finger print analysis... bring the ad hominems.

John Galt said...

I trust you intended Il Duce.

I believe the translation as written would be roughly ... Sweetie.

Unless of course Benito is just 'too fine'...

ppatin said...

Fascism? More like justice. Every jurisdiction in Maryland should try to punish criminals as vigorously as the Baltimore County SA's office does.

Maurice Bradbury said...

There's only one "Il Dolce"

Anonymous said...

Eh, Benito... multi-tasking causing fingers and mind not to cooperate.

Alas, maybe I should agree with ppatin: security is more valuable than freedom?

Probably not.

So, ppatin, you with the academics when they give you plasma televisions and laser-guided munitions, but against them when they tell you fingerprinting is bunk?

As always, I am forced to live in Absurdistan...

Sean said...

Galt -

I trust you intended Malice aforethought. Don't believe "malice of forethought" exists. Actually, it does appear to be some crappy band on Myspace.

ppatin said...

"So, ppatin, you with the academics when they give you plasma televisions and laser-guided munitions, but against them when they tell you fingerprinting is bunk?"

Actually plasma TVs were probably designed by engineers working in industry, not academia. The prosecutor also said "there is no dispute in the forensic community."

While the idea that there should be research into the accuracy of fingerprint evidence is correct (there is for example no national standard on how many points you have to have for a match) the fact that a prosecutor disagrees with the judge's ruling in this case hardly makes it "fascism." That kind of hyperbole only makes you sound silly.

Anonymous said...

pptain: "Actually plasma TVs were probably designed by engineers working in industry, not academia."

The basic science underlying plasma technology was invented by academics at universities.

pptain: "The prosecutor also said "there is no dispute in the forensic community."

Who is the "forensic community"? It is mostly ex-law enforcement and others who have financial interests in the use of fingerprint analysis. Their opinions are not based on scientific research or findings.

pptain: "[T]he fact that a prosecutor disagrees with the judge's ruling in this case hardly makes it "fascism." That kind of hyperbole only makes you sound silly.

Sir, I didn't argue that his DISAGREEMENT with the judge makes him a fascist; my position is that his blind attack on "academics" makes him a fascist BECAUSE it fascists who argue that the ruling class should be skeptical of academics. Stalin (call him a "communist," he was a fascist), Hitler, and Benito expressed their hatred for academia.

I find it telling that this prosecutor felt the need to expressly name, generally, "academics," in his criticism of the opponents of fingerprint analysis.

ppatin said...

There are a lot of academics out there who say some really clueless things, especially academics in the field of criminal justice. If you've ever read Freakonomics it's amusing how many "criminologists" have made predictions & theories that are just complete BS. Calling for "academics" to be hauled off to the gas chambers would be fascism, criticizing people who are out of touch with the real world is not.

Maurice Bradbury said...

So fascists are people who argue against academics, therefore all people who make a distinction between academic and practical knowledge are fascists. An "academic" would call that "weak induction."

gawd anonymous commentators are annoying-- I'll tellya what's telling, if someone can't even make up a pretend name to attach to whatever they're going on about.

Bosque said...

Looks like a war brewing in the NW.

Bosque said...

LOL!!! Sure people living in classrooms know far more about a subject and job they have never done than those who do the job.

More land of academia nonsense. There's a reason we call plumbers to fix leaks and not professors.

Anonymous said...

I think the other anonymous here and c love should get together. I'd like to listen in on some of those scintillating conversations! How long into one of those tete a tetes would we have to call in burgersub and his clicker to tally up another body or two? LOL!

ppatin said...

The Baltimore County SA's office has filed a notice of intent to seek the death penalty against Juvon Harris for the murder of Taavon Chambers. I'm glad to see that Scott Schellenberger is as tough on criminals as his predecessor was.

ppatin said...

Here is yet another example of why Maryland needs a "Shall Issue" concealed carry law. The guy in this story has the guts to stand up to hoodlums, gets death threats, and the State Police won't allow him to defend himself. Absolutely disgusting.

BTW, did you know that one of the KKK's original goals was to deny Southern Blacks the right to bear arms? I guess the Klan and the MDSP have something in common.

Sean said...

"State Police say the application to change Sassi's gun permit status has not been rejected. They say they need more documented evidence before deciding if he can be approved to carry a concealed weapon."

Doesn't sound too unreasonable to me.

ppatin said...

Apparently the Domino Sugar factory is on fire.

burgersub said...

hey i agree with anonymous on this one. maybe not with the word "fascist," but i do agree that it's a bad thing that people in power have a tendency to dismiss anything that doesn't gibe with their views, even hard science. as bill nye told us when he spoke at hopkins a couple weeks ago, a lot of people in america today are "scientifically illiterate," so they buy it when our elected officials deny things like global warming for self-serving reasons.

ppatin said...

What kind of academics are we talking about here? If he's dismissing legitimate research into the reliability of fingerprints that would be a bad thing, but I can't blame him for sneering at armchair "criminologists" and law school professors.

burgersub said...

i don't know, i only read like half the comments on here and i didn't read at all whatever original document the comments are about. i just felt like throwing my ill-informed two cents in.