Monday, March 15, 2010

Warrant issue

The SA's office has pulled the detective investigating the downtown murder of a secuity guard off the case, looks like the detective didn't get the okay to arrrest one of the suspects.
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4 comments:

ppatin said...

Why the hell would the State's Attorney's Office make such a big deal out of this? So a detective made a premature (but still legal) arrest, since when is that a good reason to wreck his credibility in court? Has there been some sort of dispute going on between the PD and the SA's office that has just blown up? I'm also curious if Jessamy made the call to make a stink over this case, or if it was Donald Giblin's decision.

Mon Mar 15, 02:42:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

Crap.

I sure wish someone would ask why Jessamy's office let Eric Rose off on an easy suspended sentence when he was charged with armed robbery, assault, deadly weapon, and several other offenses. Even aftre which, he violated his probation.

Why was he even here on the street????

Mon Mar 15, 02:44:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

Relative to my earlier post on our fundamentally monumentally criminal population, note that Harris Co.'s total felony filings used to be about equal to Baltimore City's, even though it has about five time our population.

But that was before Katrina. With Katrina, it received a population infusion qualitatively similar to Baltimore City, courtesy of Katrina. And the numbers soared.

Now its judicial system strains under the weight of all those serious cases, much as our Circuit Court criminal division does.

The point:

we are not like the rest of America.

We need to recognize that crime is not a distraction in Baltimore; it's our primary industry.

And that, in turn, means that far far greater resources per capita are needed here in terms of prisons, trial courts, police officers, etc.

Is it economically burdensome? Yes.

Is it negotiable? No.

If you don't want to pay the cost, then jettison the ultra-criminal
population which takes its haven here.

Mon Mar 15, 03:04:00 PM EDT
John Galt said...

Consider this:

if the Circuit Court can accommodate around 500 jury trials,

and homicides (substantially by firearm) number around 250 a year,

and nonfatal shootings number around 300-400 a year,

then we can probably try only our murders/attemted murders by firearm, and really no other crimes !

Think about that.

That's why the judges and assistant state's attorneys are so quick to put really bad hoodlums back onto the streets.

We don't equip them with the capacity to do anything else.

Mon Mar 15, 03:15:00 PM EDT

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