ANNAPOLIS, MD – Governor Martin O’Malley issued the following statement on Baltimore’s declining murder rate:
“I’d like to commend the men and women of the Baltimore City Police Department, the neighborhood leaders and citizens of Baltimore, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Commissioner Fred Bealefeld, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Gregg Bernstein, U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein, and all of Baltimore’s first responders for making significant progress toward creating a safer City.
“Together, with our federal, state and local partners, we have worked to drive down crime in communities across the State. Thanks to our local law enforcement partners in the City, homicides have been driven down by 18 percent – the lowest level since 1977. Together, we have driven down non-fatal shootings of youth in the City by 67 percent from 2007 to 2011. And thanks to Baltimore’s joint warrant initiative last summer, nearly 900 suspects have been taken off the streets.
“There is nothing more important that any of us do in government than protect the public’s safety. Though this is a good step in the right direction, there is still more work to do as just one life lost to violent crime is one too many. Together, we can make Baltimore a safer and better place for our children.”
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So how many murders have been there since 1977.
ReplyDeleterotflmao...is this guy for real? Crime INCLUDING murders have risen in the last several years.
ReplyDeleteYou don't thank the police dept. You thank the people doing the murders. The police havent done squat. Thank you Mr. Murderer.
ReplyDeleteBaltimore is unfriendly to white people avoid it at all costs you are a target.
ReplyDeleteThe local dope dealers aren't doing enough business to buy bullets!
ReplyDeleteIt seems O'Bamanomics has took it's toll on them too!!
I think they're finally running out of people to kill.
ReplyDeleteCould it be because they moved out of Baltimore and are now on the Eastern Shore?
ReplyDeleteEXACTLY! They all live in Wicomico County now after they get released from that Great Job maker called ECI!
ReplyDeleteSounds like the same crap propaganda that Ireton preaches.
ReplyDeleteI agree with 4:31 PM. This area is loaded with criminals from ECI as well as criminals in the homeless population because Ireton and Lore Chambers welcomes them with open arms.
That's how murderer John Thanos ended up in Salisbury 4:31. He was living in that large rooming house that backs Benny St after being released from ECI.
ReplyDelete"Sometime on Friday afternoon, Aug. 31, 1990, Thanos kidnapped a cab driver in Salisbury, stuffed the driver in the trunk and drove around that city for several hours before abandoning the vehicle. Thanos, who was originally from Joppa, Md., had been living in Salisbury most of that summer after serving a three-year stint in the state penitentiary for a Harford County robbery.
Later that night, Thanos hitchhiked out of Salisbury along Route 50 when he was picked up by 18-year-old Gregory Taylor, a Mardela High School student heading east on Route 50 toward Ocean City. Thanos pulled a gun on Taylor and ordered him to drive to Fooks Rd. in Whaleyville.
According to Thanos’ own testimony, the two men walked to a wooded area where Thanos shot Taylor in the upper body several times before taking his car and money. According to Thanos’ videotaped confession, Taylor begged for his life before Thanos brutally shot him in the chest several times.
The next day, Saturday, Sept. 1, Thanos, still driving Taylor’s car, walked into a Salisbury convenience store with the purpose of robbing it when he shot the clerk in the head at close range. The bullet grazed the side of the clerk’s head and he was not seriously injured, which made him a lot luckier than Thanos’ next hold-up victims.
From Salisbury, Thanos headed west on Route 50 across the Chesapeake Bay to Essex in Baltimore County where he brutally murdered Melody Pistorio, 16, and her boyfriend Billy Winebrenner, also 16, during a hold-up of a gas station where Pistorio worked."
baltimmore, no matter how much you polish a turd, it's still a turd!
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