A look at the strategies of some of those other American cities.
HarCo reduced their homicide rate by nearly 50%.
More details on the delivery driver from China Spring who was robbed and shot in Glen Burnie last week.
I missed an interesting article from yesterday's Sun about dealing with violence in the city's schools. (On an unrelated note, did you know that we have a Homeland Security Academy in West Baltimore? Does that seem creepy to anyone but me?)
I don't entirely understand the details, but protective orders in Maryland are being standardized to offer more consistent protection to victims of abuse. Or something like that.
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A Homeland Security Academy in West Baltimore ? Where better than in Baltimore City to experience an army of domestic terrorists ?
The most compelling item in Julie B.'s article is the acknowledgement by Major Fahlteich (retired) that Baltimore simply shelters far, far too many of the criminals in this region. The problem is not quite socioeconomic; it's demographic:
Around 100,000 adult offenders are charged with criminal offenses in City courts each year. About 90,000 of those are male. The adult male population of Baltimore City is only 225,000.
That's 40% mean criminality, and those are just the ones who were caught!
These people need outta here. That's the problem. Baltimore will never sustain any revitalization while these people remain in these numbers.
Numbers are no good unless they are qualified.
Is a guy who has been arrested 10 times being counted once or each time he was arrested? IOW, are those totals or individuals in that 100k assessment?
Besides, who listens to the opinion of a guy that was caught trying to downgrade a murder?
Those are charged arrests of (potentially nondistinct) individuals. That's why I stated "mean criminality". I meant as in average, not as in malicious.
On Average, 40% of all adult males here are arrested each year. In realization, some go unarrested for years on end, while others seemingly should list Central Booking as their primary residence, they're there so frequently. I did, however, subtract out those arrested but released without charging.
I do not have access to a full population distribution over frequenciess, although I'd like to. I don't think the DoC has that, either.
I can tell you that over 35% of the (distinct) male population aged 20-30 is currently in prison, jail, on supervised parole/probation, etc. - res judicata or has been nolle pro'd for reasons other than those indicating aquittal.
When you add in the rather large chunk of the (substantially female - mothers, sisters, girlfriends) population which doesn't so much commit the Part I crimes, but is supportive and well aware of the criminal acts of the males for whom they front and provide resources (a place to deal from, bail, falsified alibis, etc.), it becomes painfully clear that this city's young adult population is majority hoodlum.
As I said, it's a demographic problem. They've gotta go somewhere else. Maybe jail. Maybe distributed to other counties. But Baltimore cannot overcome the burden if they remain at large. This is why we cannot compose a Circuit Court jury which intends a just and lawful outcome: the people are largely rotten.
It would be too easy to trade words
via cyberspace .... John Galt is the REAL DOMESTIC TERRORIST....
Charles "Galt"on Darwin
now i get the PSYCHOPATHIC comments made by you....JOHN GALT
He was your great great-grand father.
oh!! wait, it was Francis "Galt"on that was behind the whole EUGENICS engineering.....
I appreciate your honesty......... Mr. Galton ..please enlighten me some more on your vision for a BALTIMORE UTOPIA??
1) Baltimore
2) Utopia
Two words which have no place operating within the same sentence.
Eugenics? Did I indicate a genetic flaw? No.
Baltimore behavior is very much learned. It's a savage and inferior culture which afflicts us, not some errant gene.
Yet, once the behaviors are fully-formed (beginning around age 14, I think), they are about as difficult to change as if they were, in fact, genetic.
Gotta go.
Way to attack someone Supreme, I guess your devotion to "free thought" and "free discussions", as stated on your profile, is just for other people.
So, which inept government agency do you work for to take such offence, the city or the state?
As for the history of eugenics in the US, go research the founding of Planned Parenthood.
Give me a FUCKING BREAK!
"The mayor and commissioner also said they believe the state needs to stop looking at Baltimore in isolation. People from adjoining counties come into the city, buy drugs and contribute to crime, they said."
I guess all the crimes that borders the city in the surrounding counties (where most of the county crimes are committed) are not connected in any way by the criminal scum leaving their cesspit neigborhoods.
This is just the continuing disbelief, as shown by example of the bus hoodlum's parents, that their own are just a bunch of rotten, amoral thugs and it's everyone else's fault for their problems.
With attitudes like Dixon's and attacks by people like Supreme to those who dare tell it like it painfully is, this city will never become great again.
The population chart in the Sun article says it all. People don't want to live in a city where people like Supreme or C Love make up the useless jury pool. Where statistics are cooked, felons run amok with absolutely no fear of punishment, and open and shut murder cases are pled down to nothing, where terrible, heinous attacks receive suspended sentences. All those people leaving are those fed up with the excuses and finger pointing offered up by various police chiefs, mayors, etc. It's easy to move too a city that actually enforces it's laws. Why do the idiots here think that is some kind of fascist utopia?
Howard County's homicides dropped by 50% this year... after going up more than 200% from 2005 to 2006.
Therefore, Howard County is clearly more dangerous than Baltimore City.
I'm sure you're joking Stephen, but for those who want to know the murder ratios for Maryland in 2007, by county (and Baltimore), here they are.
Murders per 100,000
Allegany County 0.0
Anne Arundel County 3.9
Baltimore County 4.7
Calvert County 3.4
Caroline County 0.0
Carroll County 1.8
Cecil County 5.0
Charles County 2.1
Dorchester County 12.6
Frederick County 3.6
Garrett County 3.3
Harford County 2.9
Howard County 1.8
Kent County 0.0
Montgomery County 2.1
Prince George's County 16.5
Queen Anne's County 0.0
St. Mary's County 1.0
Somerset County 0.0
Talbot County 0.0
Washington County 3.5
Wicomico County 2.2
Worcester County 10.2
Baltimore city 44.5
Maryland 9.8
Maryland w/o Balimore 5.4
I may have missed a murder or two, but these numbers are pretty much on the level.
Missed a murder or two ? Not a problem. So did the Medical Examiner.
Gor, you're right, I was joking.
The county-by-county ratios are really useful/interesting. Thanks!
I knew the city was way above average, but I didn't realize that PG was as bad as it is.
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