Shawty wanna thug, bottles at the club... shawty wanna hump, but Fogelman will dump your liquor license, chumps!
County Police are ISO 24-year-old Calvin Shayrone Hilton Jr., believed to be responsible for a shooting that injured two people on June 15 outside the Rush Hour Bar.
... hey felons, don't forget that today is the last day you can register to vote!
A tragic tale of parents trying to get treatment for their heroin-addicted daughter in the Post
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but...why don't I feel any safer?
Because there's plenty of non-violent offenses to go around?
Or because there aren't enough cops on the street to scare away all the urban insurgents?
Because at any moment your liberty, property, or even life could be snatched from you in this town?
Take your pick.
Happy Tuesday!
I was afraid that this might happen. As a result of long and bitter complaints and criticism about the murder numbers, the city government has taken action towards lowering _those_ numbers. While that is certainly not a bad thing, it also means that when resources are stretched thin, the _other_ numbers (non-murder crimes) are going to slip.
This started when O'Malley made a big mistake by announcing an "aspirational" target of 175. It allowed his critics to label him as a failure and a liar even though he had been approaching the problem correctly. I remember redhot arguments on sunspot about how "murder numbers don't lie" and that other crimes are somehow being hidden. Now, it is clear that was not the case. The two types of numbers are not necessarily in lock-step with each other.
I really believe that we would be seeing less crime today, both in property and murder count if Norris had not been pushed out.
The problem with focusing too much on serious repeat violent offenders is that it allows the up-and-coming criminals time to flourish without the distraction of law enforcement attention.
No criminal starts out with violent crime. They start as juvies with drug dealing, stealing cars (ahem, "unauthorized use"), and assault. Waiting until these people get serious before taking action is bad for us and even for the criminals.
Norris got busted because he was a criminal. And before you defend that ex-con, keep in mind that a large part of our economic difficulties today were brought about people fudging the truth on mortgages.
Helix:
#1 - plenty of lower-level crime is suppressed by the BCPD. That's factual and confirmed by many cops.
#2 - you're right. The failure to aggressively police non-lethal crime DOES encourage the up-and-coming hoodlums to raise the bar. They develop an air of invincibility. It's sometimes called the Law of Small Numbers.
We need many more officers in order to attend to nonlethal crimes in a manner consistent with what other middleclass societies would do when faced with this number of hoodlums in a rather small city.
Ultimately, these hoods need to be incarcerated, to the (considerable) extent that they are not susceptible of substantial rehabilitation.
Because the judges, juries, and P.O.'s in this city are so very generous with the hoods, it is THAT much more demanding of inadequate manpower resources to properly address our indigenous criminality.
Fudging the truth on a mortgage? Norris was railroaded by a rogue prosecutor that eventually lost his job.
Sorry, the current mortgage mess came from the government coercing banks to give loans to the "community". These loans are now tits up and the paper is worthless.
Norris lied on his mortgage applications. Like many of those applied for subprime loans. Or those prepare loan applications.
The bogus nature of your blaming the CRA is show by A) many of the sub-prime loans weren't made by banks but largely unregulated mortgage lenders B) the fact banks fail to publicize their other legal obligations. C) Banks offered the loans to everyone. I made like 9-18,000 a year and banks and mortgage lenders offered me $250,000- $300,000 in exotic loans.
Anyway, if Norris had told the truth on his mortgage application rather than lie on, this wouldn't have happened. But for whatever reason, (probably Greed) he chose to lie and he got caught.
Classic. Blame the evil lenders for people making the most important decision in their lives without reading the fine print.
"I didn't know I would have to pay off the loan!"
The CRA is the stupidest piece of legislation the Congress has ever put out. And now they are trying to hide the fact that they passed it with this huge bailout.
You cannot give money to people who are not prepared mentally or fiscally to handle it. It's classic liberal feel-good bullshit.
The current economic crisis was caused not by bad loans, but by leveraging 12-15x the value of those loans and third-party reinsurance on the securities backed by the loans. Essentially, Ed Norris' lie was sold up the line with a bunch of other lies, and then people gambled (with borrowed money) on whose lies would out first. Without the securitizing of those mortgages and the questionable insurance on those securities, the bad loans by themselves would not be an issue outside of the housing market.
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