It includes 5 days of furlough and 2 more days of paid vacation. I would have liked that. I suspect most police do not. Comp time (at 1.5 : 1) instead ofovertime for court? The number of arrests will plummet! Given that most police want to work more hours, not fewer, and this contract is…
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December 6, 1999, was my official D.O.E. in the Baltimore Police Department (even though I was already two-months into an academy class). Had I stayed on the job, I would now have ten years on, with ten more to go.
Ward was killed 25 years ago. His assassination and last dying breaths were caught on tape and haunted the memory of many Baltimore police officers, some of whom I worked with. At a memorial, held where Ward was killed, Commissioner Bealefeld said that it is “not for us to judge the results of his sacrifice.”…
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She was acquitted of more serious charges. The jury deliberated 7 days. A bunch of stories in the Sun.
The Christmas crime season is the US begins. This storyfrom the NY Daily News. [November 30 Update] And the Chicago Sun Times. Street crime really does up before Christmas. Keep that in mind. I’m in a pub in York, UK, right now. Leeds, where I’m staying, and where David Simon said he might have set…
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No. And Peter Hermaan, a very good reporter, should really learn his 10-codes. Here’s the story. The dispatch said she was notifying the Eastern, where the car was headed. The Southeast cannot drive around and look for a car at a location long since gone.
The story in the New York Times.
The Sun is starting a nice little feature where a reporter from London and Baltimore switch places.
Five shot during four-hour span. And the mayor wants to cut police pay.
People often fail to understand just how dysfunctional a big-city police department can be (and some have told me small town PDs are worse). Justin “H.L.” Fenton reports in the Sun: Sgt. Carrie Everett… spoke to a reporter after she was administratively charged in connection with an incident in which a murder suspect committed suicide…
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