Homicides in Baltimore dropped from 238 to 223, giving the city its lowest homocide rate since the late 1980s. Baltimore is now fifth in murders, after New Orleans, Flint, St. Louis, and Detroit. The Baltimore Sunhas the story.
Tag: crime
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“What are you, deaf?”
Two men were attacked in a bar for flashing signs. Not gang signs. Sign language, according to the AP: “Two hearing-impaired South Florida men were stabbed at a bar when their sign language was mistaken for gang signs.” Man… I didn’t stab them till after I told them to stop. What?! I did. They wouldn’t listen.
There should be an award for such criminal stupidity. Not a standard Darwin Award, but something for idiots who demonstrate not only that they can hate and hurt, but even, by their own demented standards, hate the wrong stranger.
Reminds me of an old joke (or is it a movie line?) my dad liked to tell in which a Jew and a non-Jew are being taken away on the train to Auschwitz. The Jew says, “What a tragedy.” The goy replies, “For youit’s a tragedy. For me it’s a mistake!”
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Good Shooting
Videoof police-involved shooting. Cops 1. Robber 0.
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We need higher taxes…
…to pay for police.
Newark laid off police and murders are up 71percent this year. That’s penny wise and pound foolish. The Newark Star-Ledgerreports.
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Broken Windows (or booze bottles)
This type of crime bothers me far more than it should. Known (at least to the cognoscente) as the “Broken Bottle Scam,” some S.O.B. bumps into somebody (usually a tourist), drops a bottle of booze, and confrontationally demands $40 for a replacement.
That’s old-school New York and it’s wrong. Crap like that preys on the weak, makes people afraid of the city, and is just a bastard way to hustle for a living. Parson said he pulled the scam up to 10 times a day. Many people just give up the dough rather than get into a confrontation with a threatening man.
The story in the Post, the Daily News, and CBS.
Well Mr. Parson picked the wrong mark: a tourist (with his elderly father) who just happened to be a Swedish Navy Lt. Commander and flew back for the trial.
But poor poor Mr. Parson, I can hear liberals complain, he wasn’t hurting anybody…
…Unless you don’t pay. When Palm didn’t pay up, Parson followed him and his father into their hotel lobby and threatened them with a box cutter. .
He was found guilty and got 20 years. Twenty years?! Really? I don’t have sympathy for Mr. Parson. But 20 years?! When does sentence length become absurd? And why do I, as a New York State taxpayer, have to pay part of what will be close to a million dollars to “protect” us from him? Come on, we’re all smart people. Are you telling me there isn’t a better and cheaper way to deal with bastards like him? Can’t we just cut the guy a check for 10 grand on condition he never comes back? People, put on your thinking caps!
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Got Raw Milk? Get raided.
It’s like a new drug!
“He wondered aloud why the state won’t let him pursue his preferred way of life.”
That’s an Amish guy s talking about his illegal product… raw milk.
When police, guns drawn, raid raw milk producers, it’s enough to make me a Libertarian.
Here’s the story by Jordan Heller.
Nolt’s resistance, which has been well-documented, has earned him a rather grand moniker: “the Rosa Parks of the farmers’ rights movement.”
Though shy about the comparison, Nolt doesn’t disclaim the nickname. “What were we to do? Agree to their falsehood? Or just stand upon the truth? And we chose truth.”
There’s video at the above link, too.
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Leave no witnesses
Police in Arlington Heights say a 16-year-old boy arrested in January home burglary told them he poisoned the victims’ three goldfish because he “didn’t want to leave any witnesses.”
Read the story here.
[thanks to Dave H.]
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The Face of a Killer
[update: Hey, look at the picture below and then the picture of me to the right? Do you think we were separated at birth? Or maybe I just photo-shopped all the cops holding me out of the picture.]
Should I be bothered by the fact that I’m always somewhat relieved whenever I find out that some murderer, in this case “a troubled man with an arrest record and a reputation for a hair-trigger temper,” just happens to be white?Is this some weird vestige of liberal guilt? Or is this logical relief at knowing 1) what some would would say if he were black or Latino, 2) feeling obliged to argue against some irrelevant and racist theories on race, and 3) then somehow having my words twisted by idiots who would say I’m justifying the actions of murderer?
Here’s the coverage in The Daily News.
One victim:
Another victim:
