Friday, December 21, 2007

December 21

Four nonfatal shootings and a stabbing the Blotter.

There was a fourth arrest in the Glen Stewart murder.

Edward Williams got 85 years for robbing an off-duty police officer and her then-5-year-old daughter at gunpoint in January.

University of MD law students helped get some indigent non-violent detainees released.

Rilly? GBC says that the city is growing in "prestige, population."

WYPR continues coverage of ex-offenders re-entering society

QTD: "The thing that always amazes me is what people think that we do and what we're capable of. They think that we're some place between a super hero and the Pope with a law degree." -- Maynard Edwards re. the Ed Norris show. ("we"?)

Good news! If you've turned 17 since November 4 of this year, you can now register to vote, and vote in your party's primary! Just download the forms and mail them in.

7 comments:

John Galt said...

Someone help me understand: why on earth should we treat ex-cons as if they hadn't been incarcerated ?

They're criminals. Why should that not be held against them? It is very useful and has enduring predictive power.

John Galt said...

Stop Snitchin' 2 producer Rodney Bethea:

"This is what happens when you close schools and build new jails. You're saying, Okay, I'd rather spend money to lock our kids up than to educate them. This is what it breeds a little guy waving a gun thinking it's right," said Bethea.

That's bullsh!t. The schools are over capacity; the jails are under. They serve very different purposes. It's justice. Deal with it.

Baltimore's rotten young males tend to deserve jail.

John Galt said...

jails: over capacity
schools: under capacity

John Galt said...

Most of these kids have already been kicked out of school for poor behavior, so no sympathy here.

John Galt said...

Man found fatally shot at intersection.

John Galt said...

See? Laws work much better when "No." means No.

Try it sometime, Baltimore.

John Galt said...

Forgot the link for that last post.