Last week marked a yearly low for the Sun's crime coverage, apparently, with the last three of the murders listed above unreported.
Feel-good story of the week: 80-year-old retired judge Thomas Ward tackled, restrained a robbery suspect preying on the home of George & Jessica Dailey, owners of On the Hill Cafe in Bolton Hill.
Police are looking for a hit-and-run driver in a white vehicle who killed someone in the middle of the afternoon in the 3300 block of Eastern Avenue.
Judge Marvin Garbis began the process of divvying up the assets of Cockeysville fraudster Alan B. Fabian.
The CP asks the very good question, "Hilton Green Is Highly Qualified To Investigate Baltimore's Department Of Housing-- So Why Isn't He?"
The feds gave Jermol Antonyio Chin 15 years for being a felon in possession of a firearm.
PsDJ: Victor William Kunst Jr., 56, of Columbia, who was indicted on one count of receiving child pornography and one count of sending illegal images, and Harold Leroy Rivers, 62, of Pikesville, indicted on six counts of possessing and receiving child pornography images.
Also, an ironic (or horribly un-ironic) pervert: the chief operating officer of the National Children's Museum in Washington.
And just a plain old (allegedly) gross guy, Gregory Trakney of Taneytown, accused of assaulting his kids' babysitter. Euch, I need a shower now.
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Why are there so many people whose last names end in "-El"?
That's not an ironic pervert. That's a pervert who landed his dream job, with the intent to be near children. Grossness
I know it means "God" in some Semitic languages (a la "Temple Beth-El").... Muslim converts seem to favor it.
Interesting. Tacking it on to the back of someone's name seems like it ought to be a tad bit blasphemous. Guess that also explains why there seem to be so many prison inmates with names that end with "-El." Bunch of phonies who claim they "found god" on the inside.
yeah, you're right Lucid.
The sheer number of child molesters out there is so horrifying. Why are there so many? Does it just seem like there's a lot because the DOJ has been focusing on child pornography in the past few years? Even so...
FYI: the '-El' phenomenon is quite particular to the so-called Moorish Science Temple, a pseudo-muslim sect which is proliferated in prison and is rare nationally, but prevalent in Baltimore.
Check out their version of the Koran. It's like Mormons on crack.
ahh, baltimore (or rather, 34,450 baltimorons) voted to keep the current slate in office for a few more years. i'm sure the result of this will be an innovative attack on violent crime, a prudent discussion of the schools, and..oh wait, nevermind.
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/elections/2007/by_state/MD_Page_1106.html?SITE=MDBAEELN&SECTION=POLITICS
Mayor Dixon was on television last night, stating that she intended to lower crime by educating the population.
Several observations:
a) more educated people tend to be less criminally-inclined
and
b) more law-abiding people tend to seek higher education,
but
neither is causative.
Well-raised, well-adjusted people tend to abide by basic behavioral norms and find they can best ehnance their earning potential and material enjoyment through the returns to higher education.
Baltimore, however, fosters a subculture of ill-raised young people who become ignorant, irresponsible, and antisocial adults. You can teach them Latin, Calculus, and Art Appreciation and they will still be Baltimore-bred... hoodlums.
The solution is to bring heavy sanctions down on the custodial parent and, if that is insufficient, make the children wards of the State.
Picking up on the tail end of this thread from a few days past, the 'norm' here is fundamentally twisted. This is a place where murder, while technically unlawful, is nonetheless widely practiced. It seems to me that in the U.S., basic crime control and public safety are understood to rise above the rubric of 'local customs' or sovereignty.
Baltimore City, Detroit, Camden NJ, and New Orleans should all be designated federal oversight jurisdictions, with a basic behavioral code which recognizes national expectations (such as the quality of a jury pool).
Even if I did believe in crime-reduction through classroom education, I could hardly imagine a less credible mechanism than the Baltimore City Public School System.
Sheila D. called Baltimore 'a great city'. Greatly troubled is more accurate.
In the Northern crime log, home break-ins in Charles Village and daylight robbery of store personnel at gunpoint on Greenmount.
Last week marked a yearly low for the Sun's crime coverage, apparently, with the last three of the murders listed above unreported.
only the elmora ave one was unreported. i saw the rest in the sun before wednesday.
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