What makes this one unique is that they got Snoop! And pictures.
Tag: Baltimore
Tow Me
So here’s the longer storyin the Sun. What I don’t get (there’s a lot I don’t get), is how could officers get a kick-back of $300 per car? The tow company would need to charge more than that. And the article says that approved towers are only charging $130-$140 dollars. When I needed to tow a car, it was pretty…
The old gun-check ruse…
A “dozen or more” B.P.D. arrested?! Peter Hermann of the Sunreports: a federal corruption probe that involves an improper relationship with a Baltimore towing company, sources said. … The officers were arrested today at the police academy after being called in under the guise that their firearms needed to be checked. … Multiple sources say the officers are mostly from…
The Racial Reality
Using the Baltimore Sun’sfun interactive homicide chart, these are the sad and politically incorrect totals for 2010: 223 homicides: 202 black (91%), 13 white, 5 Hispanic, 1 Asian, 2 unknown(?). Overall, the 2009 population of Baltimore is estimated to be 63% African American and 33% white. So roughly, the black homicide rate (50) is eight times the white homicide rate…
You gotta be kidding me
Dog-burning case will be tried again Jurors deliberated for more than 20 hours over three days, but couldn’t agree on a verdict. One juror wasn’t convinced of the brothers’ guilt in the attack, leading to a mistrial. It was the longest animal-cruelty trial ever held in the city. You tried, you didn’t win. Guilty or not, it’s time to move…
I Miss Baltimore Crab Cakes
I was at a good fish store on 9th Avenue in Manhattan yesterday and bought a pound of good fresh Maryland crab meat (non-lump, $16). So for breakfast today I made crab cakes. They were good. Delicious. Fried in butter. But still not even closeto as good as you can get at Faidley’s or almost any other place in Baltimore.…
Animal cruelty and crocodile tears
Jean Marbella has a good column in the Sun regarding trial of two brothers accused of torching a pit bull in West Baltimore in 2009: Somehow, I feel It’s come to this: The rest of us turn our backs on these neighborhoods, and the blue-light camera is the only one still looking. … No similar urgency for justice swells up…
Balto top cop Bealefeld disses The Wire
Jesse Walker writes about it in Reason. [thanks to Dan K.]
RIP William H. Torbit Jr.
Officer Torbit’s funeral was yesterday. It must have been painful. Meanwhile on Tuesday night, another officer, a homicide detective, was shot. What a friggin’ job. I’ll be back in the U.S. in a week. Everything seems very distant from here in Bangkok.
Tragedy in Baltimore
Plain clothed friendly fire police shooting. [please don’t post stupid or disrespectful comments, or respond to those who do.]