HEY CHIEF WEBSTER: WE’RE NOT AS DUMB AS YOU THINK!
In the report on crime data for Salisbury that aired on WBOC-TV Friday evening, Chief Webster demonstrated that he is either ignorant or is willing to treat Salisbury residents as ignorant in order to do the bidding of Barrie Tilghman and Gary Comegys. The report focused how the crime rate in Salisbury compares to that in other cities.
A local resident, Mark McIver, has researched the per capita data for cities of Salisbury’s size throughout the United States. "Out of 746 cities across the nation in our population category, Salisbury is showing up here at number 9 out of 746 cities across the country," McIver says.
But Webster says per capita reports mislead the public because the crime number gets multiplied to show a city of 100,000 people.
That comment by the Chiefy is absolute nonsense – the per capita data indicates the occurrence of crime in a city relative to its population, not the actual number of crimes, so that the frequency, or rate of occurrence can be compared between cities. This is a common statistical practice. Here are some readily available (by using “google”) discussions of the “per capita” concept:
To find out if one city really is more dangerous than another, you need to determine a per capita murder rate. That is, the number of murders for each person in town. To find that rate, simply divide the number of murders by the total population of the city. To keep from using a tiny little decimal, statisticians usually multiply the result by 100,000 and give the result as the number of murders per 100,000 people.
The original phrase came from Latin, and meant "per head." It is used in statistics to measure the average amount of something per person. Crime rates are at times measured on a per capita basis.
In essence, to calculate the per capita data, each city’s actual data is adjusted to express it on the common population size – 100,000 – to allow instant comparison. The adjustment maintains the relative frequency of occurrence for each city. And this ain’t rocket science, Chiefy.
The real reason that Webster and his bosses – Barrie and Bubba – don’t want city residents to compare Salisbury’s crime rate to that in other cities is because it shows very clearly that the crime rate in Salisbury is one of the highest in the nation. In fact, in 2007, the rate of violent crime in Salisbury was the highest of Maryland’s major cities, including Baltimore.
It's obvious that she wanted a stupid chief , she can rule the roost that way.
ReplyDeleteHere's the Maryland crime data - it's shocking:
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Chief,
ReplyDeleteWhen evaluating mileage for your police vehicles, do you make decisions on miles per gallon or the size of the fuel tank? Never mind, i think I know the answer
The reason the crime rate is so high in Salisbury is because the Salisbury Police Department doesn't want to do their job. This morning a concerned neighbor of mine called the police because of a suspicious vehicle in front of her house. This vehicle has apparently been parking on her street for quite sometime now and leaving it there. This person has been seen walking down another street and at times taking a cab. When the the police arrived they said the vehicle was legally parked. WTF! This isn't an issue of a vehicle being parked legally this is an issue of a suspicious vehicle. That vehicle does not belong in that neighborhood much less on that street. What normal person would park his vehicle on a side street in a neighborhood that he doesn't live in? That neighborhood is full of families with small children, single females and the elderly. When the caller pressed the issue the officer said "OK I will run the tag." Isn't that the first thing he should have done. Again it isn't an issue of an illegally parked car it is an issue of crime and a suspicious vehicle. No wonder people don't get involved. Not only are they scared they know the Salisbury Police Department won't do anything. Investigation a suspicous vehicle is also called crime prevention.
ReplyDeleteWill a real police officer and a real police agency investigate this suspicious vehicle. Salisbury residents pay County and State taxes so yes the sheriff's office and the MSP can investigate this concern. The car is a black Infinity with gold emblems and real dark tinted windows. Maryland tag number 3CG E69. It has been seen driven by a Number 1 male. Again it is not normal for a law abiding citizen to hide his car on a side street and walk away. Sounds to me like a car that might be involved in possible drug activity or another crime.
Bubba & Boda = Barrie & SAPOA
ReplyDeletegive the city more officers to boost man power, it's been the same for over 15 years. As many people know crime has changed drastically in the past 15 years. City Police keep losing good officers and proactive officers because they are tired of getting paid less than everyone else and operating substandard equipment. Ireton...when you fix the aforementioned problems that's when you will see a change to the safest city..NOT UNTIL
ReplyDeleteYou can go back further than that and see we beat Baltimore in violent crime per capita for years. Chief I hope you frame the stats and put on your wall at home when you retire for good. Be proud of what you have done, right.
ReplyDeletemy previous comment is the truth about what needs to change, hopefully ireton or whoever the new mayor is will full fill the promises of increasing city pay to equal to everyone else and to give more officers. If those things don't occur Salisbury will not change
ReplyDeleteThe only reason crime is down is because Sheriff Lewis and his fine deputies are patrolling the streets of Salisbury. Webster cannot take credit for anything dropping and if you'd like to see more proof just go to the Sheriff's Department website and look at their daily calls for service. Just take this day for an example. http://www.wicomicosheriff.com/Crimestats/Daily%20Stats/cfs032509.pdf or go to their website here and pick any day you like. http://www.wicomicosheriff.com/wcso.htm
ReplyDeleteThe Chief of Salisbury is a joke. If it weren't for the Sheriff's Department crime would be through the roof. Thanks Wicomico County Sheriff's Department.
As long as SAPOA owns 75% of the city we will continue to have a yearly transient population. This is a by product of that. this problem will continue to get worse before it gets better.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it at all curious to anybody that the mayor selected a man to be chief that came from the city in Maryland where crime is second worst?
ReplyDeleteWhat's he, on the Baltimore PR firm payroll? "Hey, Alan, remember. When you get down there, there's fifty big ones if you can make Baltimore seem less dangerous."
I agree with Anon 12:27 PM, SAPOA owns at least 75% of the city and they are true slumlords that have run our city down. We need more laws to tighten up the rental industry and make it difficult for these slumlords to run a crackhouse for criminals. My guess is that 100% or the people that rent from slumlords are criminal otherwise they would be making an honest living and an honest attempt to be a homeowner.
ReplyDeleteif people are serious about taking back the city from landlords then now is the time. property is now available at prices we most likely won't see again anytime soon. the are quite a few programs available, especially for first time home buyers, and local banks are lending money to people who can prove they'll pay it back. It's what the big banks should have done a long time ago. there are also plenty of listings by people selling their rental houses.if folks really wanted to reclaim their city now's the perfect time...price wise.
ReplyDeleteProperty prices might be low in the city but the taxes are more than anyone wants to pay, especially when you don't get anything in return for your tax dollars.
ReplyDeletethere are good cops at all agencies...don't get it twisted thinking the only good cops are at wcso. Man officers go out there and hunt the criminal element. Sad thing is the city has made lots of promises to the men n women of spd. None of them have come true so only a few proactive officers want to be proactive for long and or they decide to leave for better paying agencies. Give them what they were promised..pay equal to everyone else and more officers then you will see motivation rise.
ReplyDeleteWhy did chief order his officers NOT to get involved in any way with this election and then he makes headlines challenging Jim Ireton on crime?
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ReplyDeleteWhy did chief order his officers NOT to get involved in any way with this election and then he makes headlines challenging Jim Ireton on crime?
6:28 PM
Excellent point. I bet the puppet was told by the mare that he had to. What a pu$$y!
anon 6:05
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I agree with anonymous 12:55 I think that the landlords do need strict rules to do proper back ground checks on the potential applicants. I think that the mayor should impliment that. I have seen what slum landlords can do in a nice neighborhood. Speaking that some of my neighbors and myself stopped someone from moving into our neighborhood by reporting to the landlord things that were happening in the neighboorhood prior to the applicants signing the lease. Again, the landlord did not do the proper check and this individual had been in and out of jail 20 sometimes.
ReplyDeleteAs for the police cheif and the mayor wanting to question ireton about crime issues. She has alot of nerve. I just installed and alarm in my home I was told by them that they are installing home alarms left and right. Because of break in and home invasions. I don't know what city she is in but she is full of S---.
As for crime issues in the city. My neighbors and I just recently started a neighborhood association after walking my neighborhood for the last two days. The only thing that has come out of residents mouths is crime issues. Drugs, prostitution, suspicious activity the list goes on and on. Again, these are people that are affraid to speak out because of retaliation from the mayor. So how can she and the cheif say that they have the true facts about crime when people are affraid to speak out. Well that is about to change. Because we are no longer going to tolerate it in our neighborhood. These people have voices and is far as I am concerned they will be heard. Then maybe more neighborhoods will speak out when they know that they have ones that will be there voice. Then maybe will we have true crime statistics. Stay in touch Barry when your gone the truth will reveal itself.
ReplyDeleteWell it is 8:57 PM and I just heard what sounded like a gunshot in the area of East Main Street and Church Street. No Barrie there is no crime in Salisbury. It is illegal to shoot a gun in city limits. Hope no one was murdered.
ReplyDeleteYou people are finally learning about the city of Salisbury. No way in hell I would ever move back into the Salisbury city limits. I honestly believe the slumlords place dirtball renters in neighborhoods and the residents don't like it and end up moving themselves and the slumlords buy up what the former residents have put up for sale and it just snowballs from there.
ReplyDelete11:17 This is how I and most officers in the department I retired from would have handled this call:
ReplyDeleteFirst we would have contacted the complainant if they left their contact information with the call taker. We would have determined why the caller thought the vehicle was suspicious. We then would have ran the tag to make sure the tags belonged on the vehicle, as well as seeing if the tags and/or vehicle were in the computer as stolen. We then would have run a license and wanted check on the registered owner. If the vehicle wasn't owned by a resident in the area, we would have checked the physical descriptors on the subject seen walking from the vehicle with that of the registered owner. If it seemed they were one in the same, we'd run a criminal records check on the registered owner of the vehicle. If it was determined there were any issues with the tags, ie flagged by MVA for no insurance or the tags had been suspended, we would have confiscated the tags and impounded the vehicle. We then would have made contact with the registered owner to determine why the car was parked in the neighborhood, and if it was determined the registered owner wasn't the person operating the vehicle, we'd determine who had been driving the vehicle. We'd then do a complete driving and criminal profile of that person. That person would be contacted and asked what they were doing in that neighborhood, and why they parked the vehicle in the neighborhood and where the went when they walked away from the vehicle on foot. A report would be prepared, and all the above information would have been entered into a department wide data system so in the event a burglary, robbery or rape occurred in the general area during the date and time of our suspicious vehicle call, and the suspect of this crime matched the description of either the registered owner or the person that had custody of that vehicle, any one in our agency would have access to all that information, making investigating any of those crimes a lot easier. The lazy way is to show up, take a quick look inside the vehicle from the car's window, run the tag to see if the vehicle was stolen, and go in service, NRing (no report written) the call. Of course I retired from one of the best agencies in the state, manned by some of the best and brightest police officers you'd find.
Considering how many motorists in Salisbury park their vehicles where ever the hell they want, ie fire lanes, handicap zones, with impunity, I'm surprised the responding officer of the call even noticed whether the vehicle was parked legally or not.
Note to city officials: Start getting your officers off the highways and into the shopping centers. It would be nice to see a few on some foot patrols of these shopping centers and making personal contact with the shop owners. It would also be nice if they took their ticket books with them and started writing some tickets. Who knows, maybe they'll actually develop some intel and possibly stop a crime in progress.
11;17
ReplyDeleteOf course it's a drug car, and the cab company is driving him around to deliver the drugs. Three guesses which cab company!
Maybe the drug dealers are good tippers, a $20 piece? Everyone knows which taxi company, just like we've always known Travel Thrift was and still is a ho house.
ReplyDeleteDon't worry Old Sherlock Webster might get back to ya about that. Don't hold your breath.
Anonymous said...
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Of course it's a drug car, and the cab company is driving him around to deliver the drugs. Three guesses which cab company!
6:36 AM
I am not sure what cab company you are referring to but I would love to know.
Anon 12:47 AM,
ReplyDeleteFirst let me thank you for your service to your community and your country. What you have said is exactly what I would have expected. These officers in the Salisbury PD today are as lame as they get. They are nothing more than a glorified Mall Cop. They have become lazy and whine about more manpower and better pay. Well guess what I believe you need more manpower and better pay, but that doesn't mean you have to be lazy and not do your job. At the company I work for I have been passed over for promotion numerous times, but I still give it my 100% and so should the officers that work for the SPD. I am overworked and underpaid, but yet I still manage to go into work every day. Maybe after this election we will see some changes for the positive.