Rotten phucking lowlife lying bastards in the Baltimore County Police Department
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Palczynski Had Phone, Not Gun, Police [Now] Say
Baltimore County issues final report on Dundalk hostage case; 3 weapons within
reach
By Tim Craig, Baltimore Sun Staff
March 7, 2001
Joseph C. Palczynski was holding a cordless telephone - not a gun - the night he
was killed by two Baltimore County police officers in the apartment where he
held three hostages, according to the Police Department's final report on the
incident.
When the officers stormed the building in Dundalk, Palczynski had three weapons
within arm's reach. But the report refutes statements by police that he had a
.357 Magnum revolver under a blanket on his stomach when he was killed.
The 337-page report offers a detailed look at the hostages' interactions with
their captor and police commanders' plans to "neutralize," or kill, Palczynski -
as long as officers had a clear shot - from the first moments of the standoff.
The Baltimore County state's attorney's office used the report - released this
week in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Sun - to clear
the two tactical officers who shot and killed Palczynski last March 21.
That night, police said that Palczynski was holding a gun on his lap, and the
statement has been widely reported in the media since. But police knew within
hours of his death that it was a cordless phone, not a gun, that was found on
his body, according to the report.
When asked yesterday about the discrepancy, police spokesman Bill Toohey said,
"I did not find out it was a [cordless] phone until three or four days ago."
Toohey said the information was not released sooner because of a lapse in
communication among investigators, but he questioned its relevance.
"The phone made no material difference, given the weapons he had" within reach,
Toohey said.
The report says police found a .22-caliber revolver under the sofa where
Palczynski was sleeping, a .357 Magnum on a table next to the sofa, and a
.22-caliber rifle on the floor near his feet.
County State's Attorney Sandra A. O'Connor said yesterday that she didn't know
about the phone; the police report was reviewed by one of her deputies. But she
said it wouldn't have made a difference in her decision to clear the officers of
wrongdoing, given the danger Palczynski posed.
"It's the perception of an officer in a split second, coming in through a window
or coming in through a door," O'Connor said. "If there was something in his hand
that could've looked like a weapon, then absolutely, they were justified."
Palczynski's mother, Patricia Long, said the report strengthened her belief that
her son was wrongfully killed.
"Those police stick together like chewing gum, all the police stick together
like glue," Long said. "They had no right to do what they did, there was another
way to get him out. Tear gas."
Palczynski began a two-week rampage a year ago today when he kidnapped his
ex-girlfriend, Tracy Whitehead, from a Bowley's Quarters apartment and killed
three people. Whitehead got away from Palczynski the next night after he had
killed a motorist and critically injured a 2-year-old boy in separate shootings.
Palczynski, a 31-year-old unemployed electrician, eluded police for 10 days,
sparking the biggest manhunt in Baltimore County history, until he took
Whitehead's mother, Lynn Whitehead, her boyfriend, Andy McCord, and their son,
Bradley, hostage in their Dundalk apartment.
On the night of March 21, Lynn Whitehead and Andy McCord escaped while
Palczynski slept, creating an opportunity for police to move in, shoot
Palczynski and free the couple's son.
The 3-inch-thick report includes interviews with a dozen officers involved in
the rescue of Bradley McCord.
It also contains detectives' interviews with all three hostages and the two
tactical officers who shot Palczynski with 9 mm submachine guns, capable of
firing 800 rounds per minute.
"The team deployed and as the window was broke I heard the suspect scream,"
Officer Robert O. Jones wrote in a prepared statement to investigators. "As I
entered the window, I observed the suspect sitting up fast and sliding away from
the window to the other side of the sofa [toward the hostage]. ... I immediately
fired 11 rounds."
Jones and Officer Frank D. Barile Jr. were cleared of criminal wrongdoing July
11. An internal investigation by the department also found the officers acted
appropriately.
The tactical assault came about 20 minutes after Lynn Whitehead and Andy McCord
escaped from their home; Whitehead had spiked Palczynski's iced tea with Xanax,
an anti-anxiety drug. They left 12-year-old Bradley sleeping on the floor, about
eight feet from Palczynski, who was asleep on a couch.
Whitehead and McCord told police about intimate conversations they had with
Palczynski during their ordeal.
"On Tuesday morning, Joby was really depressed and he asked me to come in the
room with him," Whitehead wrote. "He said, 'Miss Lynn, I know I'm not going to
see Tracy anymore. What should I do?'
"I told him that whatever happened I would tell Tracy that he loved her. He
asked me if I would kill him because he didn't want to do it because he would go
to hell. I told him 'no.'"
Whitehead and McCord also told police that Palczynski explained to them why he
killed each of his four victims.
During the first night, he killed the Shenks, the couple with whom Tracy
Whitehead was staying when she was kidnapped, because "they would not listen to
him," McCord said. Gloria Jean Shenk, 49, would not get off the phone fast
enough and her husband, George Shenk, 50, would not get up from the couch.
Palczynski killed David Meyers, 42, a neighbor who attempted to rescue Tracy
Whitehead, because he thought Meyers had something in his hand, McCord said.
Palczynski also "expressed remorse" at the shooting of the 2-year-old boy,
McCord said.
But Palczynski told McCord he had no problem killing Jennifer McDonel, 36,
during an attempted carjacking on the second night of the rampage.
"He said that of all the killing he did, the only one he had no regrets about
was that black lady he killed," McCord told police.
Though Baltimore County had insisted all year that patience was the key to
averting greater casualties during the hostage situation, the report shows Chief
Terrence B. Sheridan ordered officers to shoot Palczynski on the first night of
the standoff if they got a clear shot.
Sheridan reiterated that order - which was based on the department's shooting
policy for dealing with a person capable of "imminent death or serious injury" -
to tactical officers the next day.
"I authorized the police counter snipers to neutralize (kill) the suspect if he
attempted to leave the location and they were able to make positive
identification based on the descriptions provided," Maj. William A. Kelly Jr.
wrote.
"To the best of my knowledge, the rules of engagement stated above remained in
place during the entire hostage incident."
David Henninger, a lawyer who helped police negotiate with Palczynski, said he
was misled last year when he asked about shoot-to-kill orders.
"I always had my reservations. ... All along I had heard rumors that the word
was 'shoot on sight,' but they always denied that was true."
Henninger added, "He may have moved when they came in, but probably because the
gun went off next to his head."
Sun staff writer Dennis O'Brien contributed to this article.
Coleman E. Howard
baltosux <balt...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> ...all of this occurred on Douche (aka Dutch) Ruppersberger's watch!
>
>
> Palczynski Had Phone, Not Gun, Police [Now] Say
>
> Baltimore County issues final report on Dundalk hostage case; 3 weapons
within
> reach
>
Ah shut up and go in back to your hole. Ruppersberger's has more guts in his
shit,than your whole family EVER HAD.
You see, Ruppersberger's , doesn't HIDE, and SNEAK like you do.
Ruppersberger's, is no SAINT, but his shit is out in the open. We can hold
him ACCOUNTABLE, if he does something wrong. But, a slimy, sneaky, no good
cowardly bitch like you, HIDES, and sneaks, and then think people are going
to LISTEN TO YOU.
Up yours, you low-lifed WEASEL.
By the way, your MAIL BOMBS AREN'T WORKING, thanks to Outlook Express's
"block sender"
Stick that up your cowardly ass.
Coleman
baltosux
Coddle THIS:
Police E-mail Sparks Anger
Black colleagues outraged by posting by county officer; Writer denies
racist intent
By Tim Craig, Baltimore SUN STAFF
A message posted by a Baltimore County police officer
on the police union Web site has sparked outrage among some black
members of the department, who say the posting reflects racist
sentiments.
"In my 19 years with the department, I have never been
that offended by somebody in this department," said Cpl.
Jerry Fitch. "When I look at that, I think, 'Is that
his thinking on the street? Is he saying he feels that way about
every black male?'"
The message, posted on the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge
4 site Jan. 24, was a response to the not-guilty verdict in the
trial of Eric D. Stennett, who was charged with murder after
his car rammed a Baltimore police car, killing Officer Kevon
M. Gavin. Stennett, who is black, was being pursued by police
when the crash occurred.
The author of the posting is Officer Paul Hoke, a five-year
veteran assigned to the Towson precinct. He said yesterday he
was expressing his outrage at the verdict, which he maintained
reflects a disturbing pattern among Baltimore juries.
In the message, Hoke, 24, described city officers as "animal
tamers" and said Baltimore - where African-Americans make
up 67 percent of the population - is "like entering a freakin'
jungle."
"The real problem is that these scum have a right to a
jury of their peers. When their peers are just as sleazy, scummy
and dirty as the defendants what else can we expect?" Hoke
wrote. "If these jurors put these defendants where they
belong (jail, gas chamber, etc.) then who would be there to get
their heroin, get them pregnant by age 14 or go on welfare with?"
"My theory," he concluded: "Wall off a certain
portion of the city, and let 'em kill each other."
Hoke
apologized yesterday for the comments, saying he was "blowing
off steam."
"The whole purpose of that message was to express my outrage.
.. It was just my way of expressing my displeasure with the
system and how [the jurors] failed that city officer," Hoke
said in an interview. "It was not racially motivated."
</START TEXT><SUBHED><font size=+1>First Amendment cited
</font>
</SUBHED><START TEXT>But his comments shocked Fitch and other
black officers. Fitch said he expressed his concern to Chief
Terrence B. Sheridan last week but was told Hoke's comments
were protected under the First Amendment.
"There are things that one can do that are appropriate
off duty that are not appropriate on duty," said Bill Toohey,
a county police spokesman. "He has responsibilities as a
police officer, but he also has rights under the Constitution,
so we have to balance the two."
Hoke, who patrols the East Towson and Hillendale neighborhoods,
said he wrote the message while off duty.
Toohey said the department has received no formal complaints
about Hoke's posting. If complaints are filed, the department
will conduct an internal investigation, he said.
</START TEXT><SUBHED><font size=+1>NAACP to discuss incident
</font>
</SUBHED><START TEXT>The Baltimore County branch of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People received an
unsigned fax on police department stationery this week complaining
about the message, said Herbert Lindsey, a member of the organization's
executive committee. He said NAACP leaders will meet to discuss
the incident and "do whatever is appropriate."
"It is the kind of thing that certainly requires some
kind of public response," Lindsey said.
The head of the Blue Guardians, an organization of minority
county police officers, said she was disturbed by Hoke's
comments.
"It is really unfortunate that we have someone [on the
force] who feels that way about the city itself and the residents
who live there," said Officer Yvonne Waters, president of
the group.
After Hoke wrote his message on the FOP Web site, another person
responded anonymously, saying, "You might as well be wearing
a white sheet over your uniform. Clearly you are a bigot."
Hoke said yesterday that he is alarmed that his comments have
been construed to be racist and offered to meet with anyone he
might have offended. "I am probably the farthest thing from
a racist that walks on the earth," he said. "It was
never about race, but I was upset that [an alleged] cop killer
was acquitted."
Toohey said Hoke could be disciplined even though he was off-duty,
because the department has rules that govern conduct "unbecoming"
an officer. But he called it "a fine line."
The Rev. Dwayne Debnam, pastor of the Morning Star Baptist
Church, a predominantly black congregation in Catonsville, said
he thinks Hoke's comments went too far.
"This is not a statement coming from the [Ku Klux] Klan,
this is a statement coming from a public police officer,"
Debnam said. "It would seem to me that they would at least
ask him to explain his statement or clarify it."
Fitch and Waters said Hoke should be required to attend sensitivity
training.
The Truth
road in Baltimore county!
You STILL got your ass FIRED.
That hasn't changed.
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that I got to say is "Why didn't they shoot this asshole sooner!"
baltosux
> This guy must be an ex inmate to think like he does. The only thing
> that I got to say is "Why didn't they shoot this asshole sooner!"
You Racist assholes think I give a shit what you think?
I think there isn't one of you with the BALLS to come
out to my house and prove to me that he's a better man.
You're all a bunch of candy-ass bitches, and nothing you
could possibly think up with your little white boy brains
could ever scare me.
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around...
Police Finish Probe Of Officer's Remarks
Posting to Web site called racist by some
By Tim Craig, Baltimore Sun Staff
Originally published June 5, 2001
The Baltimore County Police Department's Internal Affairs Section has
completed its investigation of comments Officer Paul Hoke posted this
year on a police union Web site that some black officers and community
leaders denounced as racist.
Bill Toohey, a police spokesman, said yesterday that detectives
recently completed the investigation. He would not divulge their
findings, which have been given to commanders for review, but said the
information will be used to decide whether Hoke should be punished.
Toohey said it could be "a long time" before a decision is made.
"At the time, Chief [Terrence B.] Sheridan promised an investigation
by Internal Affairs," Toohey said. "That was conducted, and since it
is a personnel matter, I cannot give any more information."
But the head of the Baltimore County chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of Colored People said yesterday that
he was concerned about the pace of the investigation and accused
police officials of dragging their feet.
"A lot of time has gone by on this one," said Anthony Fugett, the
NAACP chapter's president. "It tends to be a pattern we see in the
Police Department, where, over time, people tend to forget about
things and nothing tends to be done about it."
Toohey said Hoke, who has been on the force for five years and is
assigned to the Towson Precinct, returned to patrol duties a few weeks
after the dispute erupted in February.
Hoke's message, posted on the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 4 Web
site Jan. 24, was in response to a Baltimore jury's not-guilty verdict
in the trial of Eric D. Stennett, charged with murder after his car
rammed a city police car, killing Officer Kevon M. Gavin.
In the message, Hoke, 24, described city officers as "animal tamers"
and said Baltimore is "like entering a freakin' jungle."
Hoke also called city jurors "sleazy, scummy and dirty" and made
blanket statements about city residents using drugs, getting pregnant
and going on welfare. "My theory," Hoke wrote: "Wall off a certain
portion of the city, and let 'em kill each other."
Hoke apologized for the comments after several black officers
complained. Hoke, who has two stepchildren whose father is
African-American, said he was "blowing off steam."
Hoke's lawyer, Mike Marshall, could not be reached for comment.
The message prompted NAACP leaders to call for an investigation to
determine whether Hoke is a racist. Fugett said he wants Hoke to
receive diversity training as "a minimum" penalty and new policies to
be enacted "so this does not happen again."
Toohey said the investigation was limited to Hoke because commanders
do not believe there is widespread racism within the department.
"This was the action of an individual officer, and it did not reflect
any institutional problems," Toohey said.
Cole Weston, president of the FOP Lodge 4, said the group is not
taking a formal stand on what punishment, if any, Hoke should receive.
"I am not going to speculate on what the commanders will do with this
case, but certainly we are watching it very closely," he said.
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telling you what to do. :) This will be my last message since I know
just what you are.
Coleman E. Howard
> You Racist assholes think I give a shit what you think?
> I think there isn't one of you with the BALLS to come
> out to my house and prove to me that he's a better man.
> You're all a bunch of candy-ass bitches, and nothing you
> could possibly think up with your little white boy brains
> could ever scare me
--------
First of all, you are A COWARD. You HIDE, you talk big, but you HIDE.
You are Mark Kachuka, a asshole.
Coleman
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Balto. Co. department challenged on 'knock and talks' technique
By Tim Craig, Baltimore Sun Staff
Originally published June 7, 2001
Maryland's highest court is deliberating a case that could determine
whether police officers violate the U.S. Constitution when they
randomly knock on doors and ask to enter a home.
The case centers on the Baltimore County Police Department's use of
"knock and talks" -- an investigative technique aimed at combating
drugs and prostitution in high-crime areas. The Court of Appeals will
decide if such searches violate a person's Fourth Amendment protection
against unreasonable searches and seizures.
"If you are in a motel, do you want a police officer banging on the
door at midnight just [so] he can talk to you and see if you have any
contraband in your room?" said Nancy S. Forster, chief attorney for
the Appellate Division of the public defender's office.
Police officers generally have the right to knock on doors randomly
without a warrant, but they cannot search a residence unless they get
permission, legal experts said.
The court will have to decide if people confronted by officers
conducting knock and talks investigations believe that they have the
option of telling officers they do not have permission to enter
without a warrant.
"The question is, would a reasonable person under the same
circumstances feel free to decline the police request to allow police
into the premises?" said Jerome Deise, a professor at the University
of Maryland School of Law. "They have every right to come up and ask,
but does a person feel there is genuine likelihood they will suffer
some recrimination by refusing?"
The case, which pits the Office of the Public Defender against the
attorney general's office, is the result of the conviction of Aaron
Scott in September on four counts of drug possession. He was sentenced
to 10 years in prison.
The Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Friday but has not set a
date for a decision.
Scott, 22, a Baltimore County resident, was staying at the Regal Inn
Motel on Pulaski Highway in May of last year when three plainclothes
officers knocked on his door at 11:38 p.m. and announced their
presence.
One officer told Scott "there had been problems 'plaguing' Route 40
and asked if he could come in to talk," according to court briefs.
Scott let the officers in and was asked if he knew of any "illegal
activity," according to the briefs. The officers smelled marijuana and
asked if they could search the room.
Scott gave his consent, the court documents say, and the officers
discovered a shoebox that contained six pieces of crack cocaine, 63
vials of cocaine and drug paraphernalia.
On March 1, Forster asked the Court of Special Appeals -- the state's
second highest court -- to reverse Scott's conviction. However, the
Court of Appeals decided on its own to hear the case.
Forster said the search violated Scott's rights under the
Constitution.
"Absent probable cause or articulable suspicion to do so, knocking on
one's door late at night by the police constitutes an illegal seizure
within the meaning of the Fourth Amendment," Forster said in her court
brief.
She also maintained that even if police were justified in knocking at
the door, Scott felt compelled to let the officers in the room because
he felt threatened.
"No reasonable person would have felt at liberty to ignore the
presence of three police officers pounding on a motel room at 11:38
p.m.," Forster said in the brief.
Gary Bair, chief of the Criminal Appeals Division of the attorney
general's office, disagreed.
He argued the case for the state and called knock and talks a valuable
tool that police need to fight crime.
"If the police are looking to ferret out crime, they are responding to
a particular need to try to protect the public," Bair said in an
interview. "The Fourth Amendment does not require you have probable
cause to knock on someone's door."
Bair also said that a person has the right to say no when an officer
asks to search a property without a warrant.
"The person is always free to ignore the knock," he said.
Officials say police departments across the country have used the
procedure for decades.
Although the practice has never been tested in Maryland's appellate
courts, knock and talks have been the subject of court battles in
other states. Rulings in those cases have varied.
Bill Toohey, a spokesman for the county Police Department, said the
department uses knock and talks "under very specific circumstances" to
"develop information."
The department is "assessing" the procedure, Toohey said.
Forster and Bair said they are not aware of any police department in
Maryland other than Baltimore County that uses the procedure.
"But you can bet if I lose in the Court of Appeals it will be a
widespread practice," Forster said, adding that the case could end up
being heard by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"If the court says it is not an invasion privacy just to knock on
someone's door, what is to keep [police] from going up and down a row
of row homes in Baltimore City?" she asked. "Should those people be
subjected to having the police bang on their door at midnight?"
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Burl Vernon Joseph, a 32-year old Baltimore County police officer,
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officer reported, was "basically a skeleton with hide on it."
The crime, which occurred in November 1998, was never prosecuted even
though outraged Harford County Police officers investigated thoroughly
and presented the case to Harford County State's Attorney Joseph
Cassilly. Cassilly assigned the case to Assistant State's Attorney Jeff
Michaels, who refused to prosecute Joseph.
Joseph, who has expressed no remorse and who reportedly smirked at his
accusers when the court dropped his case, remains employed by the
Baltimore County Police Department.
Please write to the following individuals and let them know that you are
outraged that Burl Vernon Joseph got away with murder.
Mr. Joseph Cassilly
Harford County State's Attorney's Office 20 West Courtland Street
Bel Air, MD 21014
fax: (410) 838-2023
Mr. Jeff Michaels
Harford County State's Attorney's Office 20 West Courtland Street
Bel Air, MD 21014
Fax: (410) 838-2023
Demand that Officer Joseph be dismissed immediately!
Write or call:
Police Chief Terrance Sheridan
Baltimore County Police Department
700 East Joppa Road
Towson, MD 21286
Fax: (410) 887-4951
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By A Sun Staff Writer
Originally published June 13, 2001
A Baltimore County Police Department captain was arrested and charged
with driving while intoxicated early Sunday after he was stopped on
Interstate 95 in Virginia.
Lucy Caldwell, a spokeswoman for the Virginia State Police, said Capt.
John A. Spiroff was driving north about 1:30 a.m. in Prince William
County when he was pulled over for "suspicion of DWI." Caldwell said
she did not know any other details of the incident or Spiroff's
blood-alcohol content when he was stopped.
At the time of his arrest, Spiroff was commander of the Wilkens
Precinct. He is credited with implementing a two-year program that
drastically reduced crime in the Winters Lane neighborhood of
Catonsville.
Bill Toohey, a Baltimore County police spokesman, said Spiroff has
been temporarily removed as Wilkens Precinct commander and assigned to
"administrative duties" in the office of the major for the western
half of the county. Spiroff's police powers have been suspended.
Lt. Regina A. Ecker has been named acting Wilkens Precinct commander.
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at the time of his arrest. The department's Internal Affairs Section
will investigate the incident after legal proceedings in Virginia
conclude.
"The circumstances will determine the outcome," Toohey said.
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If you need to file a complaint of brutality
against a Baltimore County Police Officer,
you need to contact Internal Affairs at
410-887-2300 and request a copy of Form 116
which must be filled out completely, notarized
and forwarded within 90 days of the incident to:
Internal Affairs Section
Baltimore County Police Headquarters
700 East Joppa Road
Towson, MD 21286-5501
bc...@co.ba.md.us (email)
And while you're at it, send a copy to do-nothing
Chief Terrence B. Sheridan at the same street address.
He can be contacted at:
410-887-2214 (voice)
410-821-8887 (fax)
Also consider forwarding a copy of your complaint to
that other lowlife who wants to be the next governor:
County Executive Dutch Ruppersberger
400 Washington Avenue
Towson, MD 21204
410-887-2450 (voice)
410-887-4049 (fax)
du...@co.ba.md.us (email)
Unfortunately, police abuses will continue.
The Baltimore County Police Department has it's
share of bad apples. Report these abuses but
don't rely upon Internal Affairs to get to the
bottom. CBS 60 Minutes reported about The Blue
Wall of Silence and it is alive and well in the
Baltimore County Police Department. You may not
get justice but your complaint should help to
thwart future abuses by the same rotten apples.
BTW: I don't care if the phucking police department
tracks down this message to the author who composed
it. I won't make it easy for you SOBs so come and get
me for speaking my mind about you abusing bastards!
Sometimes... "the only good cop is a dead cop"
(I don't know who to give credit for
this quote but if it fits.... wear it!)
baltosux_NOT
May 8, 2001
MAYOR O'MALLEY GIVES THANKS TO CITY'S TOP COP
FOR FIRST YEAR EFFORTS
After an historic year for the Baltimore Police Department, Mayor
O'Malley gave praise today to an improved force and Commissioner Edward
Norris, upon his first-year anniversary at a press conference held at the
Police Department's Western District Station.
Since taking office, public safety has been the number one priority of
the O'Malley Administration. Safe streets are the foundation for healthy
neighborhoods, better schools and strong economic growth, all essential
components of a thriving Baltimore.
Previously, the City suffered a 10-year string of 300 plus murders
annually and was the second most violent city in America. The drug
trade owned street corners; the Police force suffered from poor
morale and was considered ineffectual in many communities. A
year ago, Mayor O'Malley tapped Edward Norris to provide the vision,
experience and urgency needed to turn the department around.
Under Commissioner Norris' leadership, the Baltimore City Police
Department is making a difference. Last year, the homicide rate fell
under 300 for the first time in over a decade and Baltimore led the
nation in reducing murders during the last half of 2000. Since last year,
overall violent crime has been slashed by 19% and murders are down by
24%. In East Baltimore, the community hardest hit by crime, murders are
down 41%, shootings are down 44% and violent crime is down 24%.
Today citizens and neighbors can walk through their communities
without fear from drug violence for the first time in years. And the
momentum continues.
Now, the Eastern District Initiative success is being strategically
targeted in the West through the "Safe Streets Initiative." Already, 36
additional officers are on the streets of the Western District and more
resources will be positioned as the 200 new officers hired this year
come on-line.
"We are not yet where we want to be as we make Baltimore a safe and just
city, but we have come far. Our efforts last year have made a measurable
improvement in many lives. Not just the victims, but for people who now
sit on their porches in safer neighborhoods," said Mayor O'Malley at
today's event. "Like our efforts in East Baltimore, we continue to
effectively target our crime-fighting resources to the areas of the city
that need them most."
Referring to the Western District push, Mayor O'Malley went on to say
"The days of a flurry of arrests, then a press conference to declare
victory, and followed by a speedy retreat are over. We are now opening
the Western Front, and we will not leave."
Dramatic reductions in crime, while the most important result of an
improved force, are not the only measure of effective operation. The
internal workings are crucial to its continued success. Since being
confirmed as Police Commissioner in May 2000, the Baltimore Police
Department has been restructured, refocused and reengineered.
In its efforts to better police the police, the department conducted a
total of 32 integrity tests in the last year. That is compared to just
two from the same period between May 1999 and May 2000.
Those obvious accountability measures have been coupled with better
training. The end result is better police that do their job with more
respect. And the numbers bare the proof. From May 1999 to May 2000, the
police department recieved a total of 134 complaints of excessive force.
During the same time frame from May 2000 to May 2001 these complaints
dropped 6%.
Additionally, promotions and recruitment efforts have enabled
Commissioner Norris to establish a Police Department that better reflects
the city it serves. In a turn from the past, a merit-based recruitment
system has been implemented. As a result, a breakdown of African American
Majors, Lieutenants and Sergeants shows an increase of 15% from May 2000
to May 2001 compared to just one year before.
To bolster those efforts, out of the 305 new police recruits hired in the
last 16 months, 60% are minorities. The results of Baltimore's crime
reduction efforts are making national headlines. Publications
such as the New York Times, USA Today and US News and World
Report have all reported what the citizens of Baltimore already know -
that Baltimore is a safer and more just city than it was only one year
ago. To that end, Mayor O'Malley gave much of the credit to the
department's new leadership.
"It's hard to make a measure of a man. But by any measure, this last
year has been one marked by progress, and by a new sense of mission and
urgency of our Police Department. That is direct reflection of its
leader, Commissioner Norris. Thank you for what you have helped the
people of this City accomplish."
But with a reminder about the ultimate message of today's press event, a
hopeful O'Malley added: "And the best news today is that better days are
still to come."
baltosux
Did I get it right???
Major William A Kelly, Jr.
1623 Hardwick Rd
Towson, MD 21286-8129
(410)823-7759
AN...@home.com
You are one U G L Y M O T H E R F * C K E R, Kukucka!
Mark A. Kukucka
12402 Jerusalem Rd
Kingsville, MD 21087-1104
(410)592-8991
Did I get it right?
Still living with Daddy?
baltosux
In Every Case, Officials Ruled Firing Was Justified
By Craig Whitlock and David S. Fallis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 1, 2001; Page A01
First of four articles
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64231-2001Jun29.html
By any measure, Prince George's County police have shot and killed
people at rates that exceed those of nearly any other large police
force in the nation.
Since 1990, they have shot 122 people, killing 47 of them.
By one standard – the number of shootings per officer –
they killed more people than any major city or county police force in
the country from 1990 through 2000.
Almost half of those shot were unarmed, and many had committed no
crime. Unlike many departments, Prince George's top police officials
concluded that every one of the shootings was justified.
Among the shootings ruled justified:
An unarmed construction worker was shot in the back after he was
detained in a fast-food restaurant. An unarmed suspect died in a
fusillade of 66 bullets as he tried to flee from police in a car. A
homeless man was shot when police mistook his portable radio for a
gun. And an unarmed man was killed after he pulled off the road to
relieve himself.
An investigation by The Washington Post found that over the past
decade, Prince George's police miscalculated the threat they faced
dozens of times – mistaking an object for a gun or a sudden
movement for an act of aggression. Moreover, the police department
defended shootings by issuing reports that were riddled with
inconsistencies, contradictions and half-truths.
In many cases, official police accounts were at odds with witness
statements and facts contained in autopsy reports, court documents and
other records.
For example, in 1995, police shot and wounded a man who allegedly
tried to run over an officer with a Chevy Blazer. A jury acquitted the
man of assault after he and other witnesses testified that the vehicle
was not moving and that he had raised his hands to surrender when he
was shot.
In 1997, police said they shot and killed a distraught college student
because he attacked them with a knife. When his family sued years
later, the officers admitted under oath that the dead man never
touched the alleged weapon – which turned out to be a butter
knife sitting on a kitchen counter.
In 1998, two officers said they fatally shot a Landover teenager in
self-defense after he tried to grab their guns. In fact, records
indicate he was shot 13 times in the back while he was unconscious and
lying facedown on the floor.
Encounters that result in gunfire often are more dangerous for police
officers than they are for civilians. Police routinely put their lives
at risk to protect the public, and most Prince George's officers who
have resorted to lethal force did so to protect the innocent or
themselves.
Officers must make split-second decisions whether to fire, and if they
freeze or flinch, they can end up dead. Two Prince George's officers
have been shot and killed in the past decade.
But in Prince George's County, many of the same officers shoot again
and again. Almost 20 percent of the shootings examined by The Post
involved an officer who had wounded or killed someone before. One
officer killed three unarmed people and fired at two others....
For the rest of this disturbing story, click on:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64231-2001Jun29.html
Question: Why don't the rotten phucking police in Baltimore County
have 24/7 recording motion picture cameras in their patrol cars???
baltosux_NOT
county seat in Towson on May 21, 1996. The 15 by 10 foot blue granite
monument replaces a previous 21-year-old memorial, which was located at a
suburban intersection two miles from the government center. Because of
increasing highway growth, the location had become a high traffic area
making it inaccessible for ceremonies and general public recognition. The
new setting, a spacious courtyard with a fountain, walkways and
landscaping, surrounded by County court and office buildings, will
improve citizen access.
The impressive tribute consists of a carved replica of the department
badge, flanked by two memorial tablets engraved with the names of those
who have died in the line-of-duty since the department was established in
1874.
It bears the inscription:
In lasting memory of those officers and families who made the ultimate
sacrifice. Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the
children of God.
Matthew 5:9
Funds for the memorial were raised through the efforts of a committee of
private citizens and businesspersons who responded to the need to replace
the former monument with a more enduring and accessible memorial.
Six officers have lost their lives in the line-of-duty in the history of
this department.
In December 1969, Officer Edward Kuznar died as a result of a traffic
accident. While on traffic patrol, Kuznar was hit head-on by a driver who
crossed the center line and plowed into his police car--killing both the
officer and the driver.
Officer Charles Huckeba left a wife and young son when he was gunned down
in July 1977 while attempting to talk a barricaded suicidal youth into
surrendering.
Responding to a call for assistance from fellow officers, Corporal Samuel
Snyder, a thirty-year veteran of the department, was shot in August 1983
by a deranged subject. Snyder died 10 days later as a result of his
wounds.
On November 5, 1986, Officer Robert W. Zimmmerman was struck in traffic
and critically injured. The 41-year-old officer died nine days later as a
result of his injuries.
On February 7, 2000, Sgt. Bruce Prothero was shot and killed during an
armed robbery. He was a 12-year veteran of the Baltimore County Police
Department. Sgt. Prothero was married and the father of five children.
Officer John Stem died on October 20, 2000 of complications of paraplegia
caused by a line of duty gunshot wound he suffered in July 1977.
Ken (NY)
unpricked by the thorns of reason and logic, uttered the following:
>By any measure, Prince George's County police have shot and killed
>people at rates that exceed those of nearly any other large police
>force in the nation.
>
>Since 1990, they have shot 122 people, killing 47 of them.
So they let 75 of the suspects live? I thought we were being
led to believe that those cops were out to kill?
Ken (NY)
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According to factual info found at:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/specials/pgshoot/shootstats.htm
The Baltimore County Police Department ranks 39th (fatal shootings per
1,000 sworn officers) in the USA in the use of deadly force!
Baltimore County Police Motto: Shoot FIRST, Ask questions LATER !!!
baltosux
Prince George's Tolerates Officers Accused of Repeated Abuses
By Craig Whitlock and David S. Fallis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Monday, July 2, 2001; Page A01
Found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A259-2001Jun29.html
Second of four articles
In one 15-month stretch, Prince George's County police officer Francis
A. Masino shot an unarmed man, allegedly broke a paraplegic's leg and
smashed a driver in the eye with a blackjack. Three other people
accused him of misconduct and abuse. One of his relatives warned
police, in writing, that Masino was "a madman."
Yet time after time in the 1980s and early 1990s, police officials
cleared him of wrongdoing and put him back on the street, where he
continued to find trouble.
In 1993, Masino shot and critically wounded an unarmed man outside the
Prince George's County Courthouse. Two years later, he opened fire
again, seriously wounding an unarmed motorist in Mitchellville. In
1998, a federal jury ordered him to pay $113,000 to a pregnant woman
he had attacked in a rage after her dog defecated on his lawn.
Today, Masino is still a Prince George's police officer and has been
promoted to corporal. His disciplinary record is spotless -- the
shootings, the lawsuits and the complaints all have been wiped clean
from his file.
"It's ridiculous that he's still on the force," said Cristi Wineke,
the woman who sued Masino and won. "He needs to have his gun taken
away, and he needs to go to an anger management class -- for about 10
years."
Masino declined to comment.
Masino's record is not uncommon in Prince George's, where some
officers shoot or abuse people repeatedly with little fear of
punishment, records show...
For the rest of the story, visit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A259-2001Jun29.html
SUNDAY: Prince George's County police officers shot and killed people
at rates that exceeded those of nearly any other large police force in
the United States from 1990 through 2000. Almost half the people
targeted by police were unarmed. Police officials declared all of the
shootings justified but kept details about them secret.
MONDAY: Many Prince George's police officers use their guns again and
again. Almost 20 percent of police shootings since 1990 involved an
officer who had shot someone before. Records show that officers who
are repeatedly accused of excessive force are rarely disciplined by
their superiors.
TUESDAY: Police have shot at least a dozen mentally ill or emotionally
distraught people since 1990, including seven whom officers were
initially called to help.
WEDNESDAY: Police said they didn't seriously injure Clarence Stewart,
Elmer Newman or Charles Huddleston, but autopsy reports show that all
three men were severely beaten before they died while in handcuffs.
baltosux
Pr. George's Police Eschew Nonlethal Options
By David S. Fallis and Craig Whitlock
Washington Post Staff Writers
Tuesday, July 3, 2001; Page A01
Found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A316-2001Jun29.html
Third of four articles
Winona Randall rushed to her neighbor's home to call police. Please
come help my son, she said; he is mentally ill and needs to go to the
hospital.
In the kitchen of her Fort Washington home just minutes before, Louis
Eugene Randall Jr. had been chopping strawberries when, suddenly and
silently, he began to stab a paring knife into a plastic sugar
canister.
She knew that her son, who was manic-depressive, needed medication.
Two Prince George's County police cars met her outside her house on
Trafalgar Court that evening seven weeks ago. She explained that her
son was acting bizarrely but that he was alone and had no guns.
"I said, 'He is a good person, he is just off his medicine. So don't
go in there and shoot him up or nothing,' " she recalled.
The police reassured her: Officers are trained not to shoot. They can
use nonlethal force.
"One of the policemen even showed me he had a pellet gun," Randall
said. "He told me, 'We won't hurt him. We'll just hit him with this
pellet gun.' "
By the time it ended, as many as 50 police cars lined the street.
Police snipers had shot out street lamps. Two military-style assault
vehicles sat outside, and a helicopter circled above the house.
And Louis Randall, 37, lay in a back bedroom, shot eight times by
police.
Shootings of the mentally or emotionally disturbed -- at least six
dead and six wounded since 1990 -- are one aspect of a broader pattern
of gunfire by Prince George's officers over the past decade...
For the rest of the story, visit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A316-2001Jun29.html
baltosux
Prince George's Police Hamper Prosecutors
By Craig Whitlock and David S. Fallis
Washington Post Staff Writers
Wednesday, July 4, 2001; Page A01
Found at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A352-2001Jun29.html
Last of four articles
Prince George's County police said they didn't seriously injure
Clarence Stewart. Yet his autopsy report shows he was bludgeoned on
his head, right shoulder, back, legs and arms with a metal nightstick.
Police said they didn't hurt Elmer Newman, except for a few bruises.
They suggested he broke his own ribs and two bones in his neck as he
thrashed around.
They said Charles Huddleston suffered "superficial injuries" to his
head. Yet his face was so discolored and swollen that relatives had
trouble identifying his body.
The three men died after they were arrested and handcuffed. Contrary
to the official police accounts, autopsy reports show they were
severely beaten, two of them so badly that Maryland's chief medical
examiner declared them homicide victims.
No one knows how many people have died while in the custody of Prince
George's officers. Police said they don't keep track of such deaths.
By examining autopsy reports and other documents, however, The
Washington Post was able to identify12 people who have died in police
custody since 1990. The records suggest that police often sought to
cover up beatings and were sometimes slow to obtain medical care for
the victims.
Police have kept one man's death a secret to this day, four years
after he was handcuffed and collapsed. Police never notified
prosecutors, preventing them from conducting an independent
investigation, The Post found.
No Prince George's officer involved in an in-custody death has been
disciplined by the department...
For the rest of this story, visit:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A352-2001Jun29.html
baltosux
Originally published July 7, 2001 in The Baltimore SUN
Col. David Mitchell, superintendent of the Maryland State Police,
doesn't seem to think that it matters that his troopers continue to
search African-Americans and other minority motorists in vastly
disproportionate numbers along Interstate 95 ("Profiling difficult to
pin down," June 28).
For years, minorities have accounted for 60 percent or more of people
state troopers search on I-95, but about 20 percent of the traffic on
the highway.
And for some troopers the picture is even worse. Statistics the State
police have been required to keep under a 1995 settlement show that
for extended periods some troopers out of the JFK Barracks on I-95
have searched African-Americans 80 percent, 90 percent or 100 percent
of the time.
Despite a 1997 federal court finding of a racially discriminatory
pattern and practice by troopers, The Sun's article reports troopers
say they still receive no direction on racial profiling.
The last many of them heard on the subject was at the police academy,
when they heard bromides disapproving of racial discrimination.
But Colonel Mitchell washes his hands of further responsibility,
saying that it is an individual trooper's responsibility to be aware
of his or her own patterns.
This indifference is why, eight years after the first racial profiling
suit was filed against the state, the problem persists. It's why the
state's 1995 settlement did not end racial profiling by state
troopers, and why, since then, scores of innocent minority motorists
have brought suit and lodged complaints that they have been victimized
by the practice.
State police management needs to be concerned when troopers target
minorities. Not all troopers do so; many are even-handed. But when a
trooper searches African-Americans 100 percent of the time, as a few
have, management needs to find out why.
It needs to investigate the facts, then take appropriate action. But
on Colonel Mitchell's watch this hasn't happened.
One thing is certain: Until the leadership of the state police takes
it seriously, the problem of racial profiling won't go away.
William J. Mertens Washington
The writer represents the Maryland NAACP and individual motorists in
federal class action litigation against the Maryland State Police for
racial profiling.
baltosux_NOT
news:cb1d44e5.01070...@posting.google.com:
> The Baltimore County Police Department ranks 39th (fatal shootings per
> 1,000 sworn officers) in the USA in the use of deadly force!
39th out of 50 states... I'll take those odds!
I wonder where it's safer? Alaska?
baltosux_NOT
> Police Routinely Clear Their Own
> Prince George's Tolerates Officers Accused of Repeated Abuses
---------------
I thought this was a BALTIMORE discussion group?
baltosux_NOT
> Families' Pleas for Help End in Gunfire
> Pr. George's Police Eschew Nonlethal Options
I thought this was a BALTIMORE discussion group?
baltosux_NOT
> Official Secrecy Shrouds Fatal Arrests
> Prince George's Police Hamper Prosecutors
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baltosux_NOT
> State police must root out profiling (... don't hold your breathe!)
------------
> Originally published July 7, 2001 in The Baltimore SUN
Ken (NY)
unpricked by the thorns of reason and logic, uttered the following:
>balt...@hotmail.com (baltosux) wrote in
This thread is cross-posted to other n.g.'s.
Ken (NY)
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Department of Redundancy Department
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WHY MEN ARE NOT SECRETARIES
Husband's note on the refrigerator to his wife:
Doctor's office called.
Said Pabst beer is normal.
baltosux
Baltimore County Police Officer William G. Kalista is a LOWLIFE....
William G. Kalista, Jr.
Karen C. Kalista - wife
12802 Gent Road
Reisterstown, MD 21136-5707
Willian G. Kalista
4709 Coastal Hwy
Ocean City, MD 21842-3231
(410)524-7808
