Wednesday, January 26, 2011

One Wood Cafe

Former police officer Bill Countess: "'The Wire' is a very accurate depiction of reality both on the street and within the Baltimore Police Department."

A new bill would put a special code on MD sex offenders' drivers' licenses

Here's a question: if "two dozen or so" people are outside the courthouse saying irrational, "inflammatory" things and acting out of "political opportunism," how many words should the local paper of record grant them? For what it's worth, so far this week the Sun's given the anti-Bernstein inflammatory opportunists 1,855 words (including the story, the editorial and related verbiage in a blog post); the inflammatory political-opportunists' protest at Lance Cpl. Matthew Snyder's funeral garnered 1,074.
Lapping it up = grammatically challenged "Examiner" Hassan Giordano

County police release names of deceased bachelor-roommates found in Perry Hall

From the JHU security bulletin: "Indecent Exposure – One World CafĂ© – On Jan 25th at 7:00 PM, a non – affiliate observed a lone male at nearby table exposing himself. Upon being noticed the male left the establishment.  Baltimore Police and Campus Officer responded. Investigation continuing."

2 comments:

John Galt said...

Question:

I'm reading the WBAL coverage of Bernstein's comments.

Bernstein said plea bargains need to bring about more reliable and certain results.

He said that might be the ticket to getting more cooperation from people and snuffing out the city's "stop snitching" mentality.

"I don't think it's a fear of snitching. I think it's a fear of conviction."


I'm not sure I understand. Whose fear of whose conviction? The witnesses? What are they afraid of and for whose sake? Is Bernstein saying they don't believe in criminals being held to account or that they, themselves, have something to hide?

Maurice Bradbury said...

yay, Galt is back!
.. I was puzzled by that too. I think he means that the prospective snitchers are also engaged in criminal activity?