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https://www.wbal.com/article/4...-homicides-this-year Thursday, November 14, 2019 Anne Kramer and Kimi Robinette, WBAL NewsRadio Police: Baltimore City Reaches 300 Homicides This Year Detective Donny Moses, with the Baltimore Police Department, has confirmed that as of Thursday morning, Baltimore City has reached 300 homicides so far this year. Moses confirmed with WBAL News Radio 1090 and FM 101.5's Anne Kramer that the latest victims were a man and woman shot and killed at McHenry and Monroe streets in Southwest Baltimore. That happened around 3 a.m. Thursday. Another man was killed on Wednesday night in the city on McElderry Street. On Wednesday, a 17-year-old boy was shot in the head along the 2800 block of West Lanvale Street around 1:30 p.m. He died at Shock Trauma. For all of 2018, there were 309 homicides and 342 in 2017. ======================================================= Mayor: Don't blame me!!! https://www.wbal.com/article/4...mmitting-the-murders Wednesday, November 13, 2019 Robert Lang, WBAL NewsRadio Young: 'I'm Not Committing The Murders' Visitation is set to begin Wednesday for Jordan Taylor, the sports and teen director at the Y of Catonsville, who died last week from gunshot wounds suffered in a home invasion in his Southwest Baltimore home. On Tuesday, the president and CEO of the Y of Central Maryland, John Hoey criticized the mayor and other city leaders for not addressing the spike in crime with enough urgency. "I'm not committing the murders and that's what people need to understand," Mayor Bernard C. "Jack" Young told WBAL-TV 11. "The police commissioner is not committing it, the council is not committing it. How can you fault leadership? It's been five years of 300 plus murders. I don't see it as a lack of leadership." Young said Hoey has not contacted him, but he said he plans to reach out to Hoey. Hoey declined to comment on the mayor's remarks when reached by WBAL NewsRadio 1090 and FM 101.5. Thiru Vignarajah, one of several candidates challenging Young in the 2020 Democratic primary, called Young's statement "insulting and tone-deaf." "Is he really confused why people look to the mayor for leadership on crime?" Vignarajah said in a statement. "If he thinks it's not just his job to end the bloodshed, he should hand over the reins to someone who realizes it is.” Taylor's funeral is set for 10 a.m. Thursday at St. John's Grace United Church of Christ in Catonsville. | ||
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You can do it, guys, its time to knuckle down and get tough. Never give up. Go for the gusto each and every day. There's 48 days left in 2019, not counting today, and today is yet young! Go for the high score! "I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation." Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II. | |||
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Ahhh “The City That Bleeds”. God forbid we knuckle down and aggressively police to put an end to this. Folks would be up in arms at how dangerous the police are to the community...  Take Care, Shoot Safe, Chris | |||
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Maybe if Baltimore and Maryland just pass a few more gun control laws, the killings will end? The democrats have all the answers; it's legal, lawful gun owners fault that the inner city gangs in Baltimore do these shooting! | |||
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Meh. I bet the majority were misdemanor homicides. The ones resulting from disputes over "turf" or the ubiquitous "disrespectin n shit". Regards 18DAI 7+1 Rounds of hope and change | |||
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good grief. I'm glad we got that clarified | |||
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Sounds like a Chicago weekend. | |||
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He may not be committing the murders but he sure is enabling and allowing them. It is, however, in his domain to reduce and discourage and penalize. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | |||
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65 more to go to have one a day. Get to it you dope slinging illegal gun toting thugs, you're making everyone look bad. Nice is overrated "It's every freedom-loving individual's duty to lie to the government." Airsoftguy, June 29, 2018 | |||
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The City of Baltimore got what they wanted. Now they have the audacity to bitch about what they wanted. The Mayor is right. He, and the Chief of Police aren’t committing the murders. Now when the new regime figures out WHO IS committing the murders, are they going to: -Admit it -Do something about it ______________________________________________________________________ "When its time to shoot, shoot. Dont talk!" “What the government is good at is collecting taxes, taking away your freedoms and killing people. It’s not good at much else.” —Author Tom Clancy | |||
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They need to crack down on those white populist types. 300,000 people have left Baltimore since 1950. Since 1950, Baltimore has had ONE Republican mayor - and he refused to run for a second term. Democrats have had a stranglehold on politics in Baltimore since 1962. They run everything. Right into the ground. In 1993, they achieved the highest per capita murder rate EVER RECORDED. Pre-Freddie Gray, Baltimore PD made 40,000 arrests a year. After DA Mosby went after the cops (unjustifiably), arrests plummeted to 16,000. Cops knew to mitigate their risk. Homicides surged 63% within a year. And it pretty much stays right up there. Baltimore has about 4,000 law enforcement personnel for a population of about 620,000. Over 300 murders a year. Mesa, Arizona has a population of about 500,000 and has 1,200 police officers (1/3 of Baltimore). About 25 murders per year. Other than demographics, I'm at a loss. | |||
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I'm not familiar with Baltimore, is it like Chicago (and most US urban metro areas) where the vast majority of these shootings are happening in specific neighborhoods? or, is it like Oakland where most of the city resembles a tenement and a handful of oasis neighborhoods are sprinkled about? | |||
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Yes. About 80% of the murders occur in 25% of the neighborhoods. | |||
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isn't that seemingly always the case? --------------------------------- Proverbs 27:17 - As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. | |||
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Baltimore homicides 2019 300 to date 2018 309 2017 342 2016 318 2015 342 Freddy Gray death April 2015. Marilyn Mosby charges cops 2014 211 2013 235 2012 217 2011 197 2010 224 2009 240 2008 234 | |||
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Thanks SDY, for illustrating what I was trying to point out. | |||
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And, Maryland (Baltimore) has strict gun control laws...
No silly gun control laws in Arizona (Mesa). ********* "Some people are alive today because it's against the law to kill them". | |||
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If they can make it to 400 by the end of the year, they get a puppy.  | |||
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Baltimore is an "independent city" - it is not part of Baltimore County or the rest of the metro area which has a population of 2.8 million. It is like the "inner city" for the whole metro area. Not to make excuses, but they don't get to include the low crime suburbs in their statistics like many other cities. armadill0 | |||
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