Sunday, March 14, 2010

Dead baby

Police found a dead baby stuffed in bag in Druid Hill Park
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8 comments:

Cham said...

Ugh-oh. It sounds like someone might get convicted of a.....misdemeanor.

Mon Mar 15, 09:24:00 AM EDT
Anonymous said...

It's just the problem of a mother who made a "bad choice"

Mon Mar 15, 10:01:00 AM EDT
ppatin said...

Here's a great quote from one of the Sun's old articles about Joseph Palczynski that they've made available:

"This man is dangerous. He is out there hurting people. I can't believe that any human being can make so many mistakes and be given so many chances and not appreciate it, and I do not feel, from what I hear, that the mental state is anywhere near as much an excuse as he tries to use it for a crutch."

-Baltimore County Circuit Court Judge John Fader

This same thing could be said about so many other criminals out there. BS mental health excuses enable far too many dangerous criminals to pretend that they're not responsible for their actions. Guys like Dan Rodricks also love to whine that we don't give criminals enough second chances, when in fact the exact opposite is true. We give far too many second, third and fourth chances to men who have proven that they are a danger to society.

Mon Mar 15, 11:48:00 AM EDT
Cham said...

Psychological evaluations of criminals are actually be very helpful in good sentencing processes. If one had looked hard at Joseph Palczynski they could have quickly determined he was seriously marred as a narcissist and also a sociopath. Mr. Palczynski felt nothing for his victims because everything was all about him all the time. If he felt that killing people would result in the actions he wanted, he was going to do it. The man was without empathy. What afflicted him was a very good reason not to ever give him any type of second chance. Yes, he did have mental health excuses, lots of them. The mental state Joseph Palczynski might have been drastically different from other criminals who may not be sociopaths.

Mon Mar 15, 12:13:00 PM EDT
ppatin said...

Psychology/psychiatry is 90% bullshit pseudo-science with an awful track record at predicting anything.

I believe it was Freakonomics which pointed out that a fairly simple formula which used age, criminal history, education level and a few other factors was better at predicting recidivism among released prison inmates than any kind of psychiatric evaluation.

Mon Mar 15, 12:28:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

The Sun reports on a backlog in the Crime Lab's serology unit.

No kiddin'.

Anyone look at the number of crime scene technicians and print readers available to handle the thousands of break-ins? These hoods have all been printed and most are sloppy; they leave lotsa prints, if anyone would take them. It's a slam dunk to ID them.

Consequently, we have a ton of hoods on the streets reoffending because no one could be bothered to incarcerate them. (Reducing criminals in this town is not as hard as some would like to suggest. Just be systematic. You need more prison capacity and more trial capacity.)

Baltimore simply does not provide a level of crime-reduction resources proportionate to the level of criminality here.

I know it costs money, but hey, no one said having all these hoodlums living here was gonna be cheap.

Mon Mar 15, 02:19:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

See, another facility being closed without adding replacement capacity.

We need more places to stash this city's overabundance of criminals.

Mon Mar 15, 02:22:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

I think perhaps many do no properly appreciate just how very unusually dedicated to criminality the population of Baltimore really is.


Consider this:

the top ten most populous (urban) counties in Texas have an average of 7-8 felony filings per 1,000 population. (Dallas, El Paso, and Harris Co., the most urban in nature, were about 9 felony filings per 1,000, so the number is pretty indicative.)

We, on the other hand, have about 40 !

That is, we are about five times as criminal per capita as other urban municipalities.

Mon Mar 15, 02:37:00 PM EDT

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