Monument and Rose. 325 Post. Cop gets sucker punched trying to take a guy into custody. Anybody know if the original 30-1 got away? Was he backing up time? (email me at mail@petermoskos.com if you don’t want to post a public comment.) 30-2 is lucky he didn’t end up like like “Fat Herb,” 11 years…
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Justin Fenton has a good article describing a killing and a revenge killing in Baltimore. It doesn’t provide the answers, but it does help clarify the picture as to why things are so damn F-ed up.
When I re-posted those pics of a Baltimore crack house, I found one of the comments so interesting I asked the commenter to turn it into a guest post. Eddie Nadal, retired NYPD, graciously agreed. These are his words: I recently visited the Lower East Side in New York, the same LES where I was…
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I bet Baltimore’s Eastern District is no different. Because I do know that between 1990 and 2000, the Eastern lost 30% of its population, can’t imagine the last 10 years were any better. Here’s a story about Detroit. I’ve still never been there.
Not that you asked (you didn’t), but here’s what I thought of two movies I just saw: “Adjustment Bureau.” Good stuff. I liked it. Cool. Great concept. Good New York movie. But really I’m here to tell you about the other one: “Precious.” What? “Precious”? Isn’t that so 2009? Yes, but I didn’t see it…
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Sounds like a headline you might expect to hear out of Baltimore. But it isn’t! This story is out of St. Louis. (Though I’m a bit ashamed to mention that the only reason this probably isn’ta problem in Baltimore is because Baltimore brick isn’t particularly good. Hence Formstoneand painted brick. Baltimore brick is pretty enough,…
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“Let’s bike over that bridge and have lunch in Newburgh.” That’s what I told my wife. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Unless you know Newburgh, NY. I didn’t. My wife and I were on a weekend biking getaway and found ourselves in Beacon, NY. Beacon is a pretty but depressed place…
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In the course of writing Cop in the Hood, I researched what I thought was the bombshell statistic that, conservatively estimated, more than 10 percent of the men in the Eastern District are murdered between the ages of 15 and 35 (pp. 219-220). That bomb sure was a dud. Maybe everybody already knew. I like…
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These are adopted from my field notes: It’s 1am and ______ and I are on the way to John’s Express to pick up a pizza I ordered 10 min. earlier. They said they’re closing at 1am. I’m hungry. We’re going south on Broadway past Monument and the Hopkins folks are waving to us. I wave…
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While I was out, there’s been a bit of a brouhaha over a Sunreportthe fact that “since 2004, Baltimore has led the country with more than 30 percent of rape reports marked ‘unfounded’ by detectives, meaning police believed the victim was lying.” And though I applaud Bealefeld for his generally sensitive handling of this issue,…
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