(incredibly, the percentage of city residents is not much higher-- about 1 in 22, if this article's estimate of 28,000 is accurate)
A man shot during an attempted robbery/carjacking, a stickup in the ToonTown Center garage.
More on the Bounty Hunters, a citywide subset of the Bloods "ruthless enough to burn one of their own alive"
Senate to "employ a rarely used legislative maneuver" to bring death penalty bill to a vote
Last year's bogus-parking-ticket scandal may have been the result of MVA employees stealing license plates
Paige Croyder: maybe expungement isn't such a great idea
Hermann ranks the state's biggest drug busts
("reefer"? "grass"? Is that what the kids of today are calling it?)
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Dan Rodricks says that we're too mean to criminals, and that we should offer more opportunities to people who've been locked up multiple times. God forbid that criminal behavior come with consequences.
Lisa Gladden has admitted that the votes to repeal the DP in the Senate probably aren't there.
Also, here are a few very sad paragraphs. This poor woman has been waiting nearly 26 years for justice, and it seems like she's practically the only person in this state who speaks up for the silent majority that supports the DP. Good for her for fighting the good fight.
"Debate resumes Tuesday in the State Senate on a bill to repeal the death penalty even though a Senate Committee rejected the bill on Friday.
Phyllis Bricker is speaking out against the bill this weekend.
Her parents, Irvin and Rose Bronstein were murdered in their Northwest Baltimore home in 1983.
Their killer, Jon Booth-El, is one of five men on Maryland's death row.
Bricker has been going to Annapolis for years to urge lawmakers to keep the death penalty in tact.
She notes she is often outnumbered by death penalty protesters who are in organized groups.
"We don't have any groups behind us. The victims are so worn out from all of the years of going to trials and appeals, and so emotionally and physically worn out, it's enough to just stand up and say how you feel," Bricker told WBAL's Kendel and Bob Show Saturday."
Sometimes you have to look at the big picture. We incarcerate in numbers that are unsurpassed amongst Western countries (and probably even the majority of the most repressive third world countries).
I think this is telling us something. Perhaps the solution is not to "lock-em up" in even greater numbers? Maybe we need to have more intelligence behind our strategies for prosecution, judgement, incarceration, rehabilitation and release?
Well for starters it would help if we ended the so-called "War On Drugs." Prohibition doesn't work, it never has, and there's no reason to believe it ever will. It's a fantasy to believe that the government can stop people from getting high. Combine a liberalization of drug laws with sharia-like punishments for real crimes (those involving violence or the taking of another person's property) and I bet we'd have fewer prisoners and much less crime.
Open Society would like us to exert more effort on crime prevention.
My answer:
HELLO! Criminals! DON'T commit crimes, or we'll lock you up.
Crime prevention: done.
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