Archive for the ‘Crime’ Category
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Trouble in the ‘Hood
If you’re standing on or near the corner of North Avenue and Belair Road in Baltimore, you have a 1 in 7 chance of being a victim of a violent crime. At least that’s what Dr. Andrew Schiller, a geographer and founder of NeighborhoodScout.com has found in a recent study.
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Two sections of Baltimore [...]
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Arson isn’t the answer
Not that you would do this, dear readers, but the Maryland Insurance Administration wants you to know that setting your car on fire for the insurance money isn’t the answer to getting out of auto debt.
We are apparently in the tail end of “National Arson Week,” and MIA Commissioner Ralph S. Tyler says burning up [...] -
Madoff survival guide
When Bernie Madoff arrives in prison, he likely won’t be the most popular inmate.
According to some experts Bloomberg interviewed — including a former inmate who advises convicts on surviving time behind bars — the other prisoners are bound to blame Bernie, the mastermind behind the largest Ponzi scheme in history, for the Wall Street crash.
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Marc Steiner: ‘We have to rethink the way we fight crime’
Today, WYPR host Marc Steiner speaks out on his past work as a juvenile counselor and what he thinks needs to be done in Baltimore on the Open Society Institute’s “Audacious Ideas” blog.
In Make things work NOW, he writes:
What I am proposing is that the city, state, philanthropies and businesses spend millions of dollars in [...] -
To Conaway, the Deputy Commish cuts an imposing figure
No matter who delivers the Baltimore Police Department’s monthly report to the city’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council or what that report contains, Baltimore City Circuit Court Clerk Frank M. Conaway Sr. usually has a probing question or two.
Not at Wednesday’s meeting, where burly Deputy Commissioner Anthony E. Barksdale reviewed last year’s drop in violent crime [...]