Tidbits from 9/20-9/26
Editorials
Examiner.com
A few more editorials concerning the recent events and actions of the BPD. One questions the silence of Commissioner Hamm … the other questions the need for more specialized units while there are gaping holes in patrol.
Meanwhile, there were 11 Homicides during the week.
Baltimore …. Get in on it.
A frightening and costly encounter with police unit
Dayummmmm!!! Its just getting worse and worse.
A source close to the SET unit investigation says that Kemp and others made believable claims about money and drugs taken - but not accurately documented in police paperwork - by the officers, raising questions of theft. Court documents detail the SET officers’ version of Craig Kemp’s arrest.
While driving his Chrysler late Nov. 2, 2005, Kemp was pulled over in the 400 block of Clinton St., stopped for speeding, according to the statement of probable cause written by Officer Shakil Moss. Police searched the car using a police dog, and the dog found a gun in a hidden console, Moss wrote. Police Department communication records indicate that Officer Agustin Rodriguez requested a complaint number for a handgun violation at least 20 minutes before the police dog unit arrived. The apparent conflict shows the officers might have searched the car first, then called for a police dog unit to validate their search.
Kemp says he saw an officer find his loaded .38-caliber revolver, package it and put it in the trunk of the marked police car. Then, he says, he saw officers retrieve the gun, take it out of the package and return it to his car, just before the police dog arrived. He tested “truthful” about that scenario in the polygraph examination.
Today’s Bullshit Reports
Investigative Reporter Jayne Miller has uncovered further information regarding our City Administration’s attempt to manipulate crime numbers:
Miller asked Sharfstein, “When you considered what you were going to present in February, did you look at data from all four trauma hospitals?”
Sharfstein said, “The date presented was what I considered to be the best reliable data.”
When asked if he looked at the number of cases at all four hospitals, he said, “I’m not interested going through all the things I did six months ago.”According to investigators, if gunshot cases at Sinai and Bayview had been counted, the reduction in gunshot injuries from 1999 through 2005 would have been smaller than the reduction at just JohnsHopkins and Shock Trauma.
Let me be the first to say Mr Sharfstein … Bullshit!!
Continuing our coverage of the Shredded Court Documents, Mr (this case is without merit) Tyler the City Solicitor and his Office indicated the records were shredded because the BPD Internal Affairs Division ran out of folders. Oddly, they ran out of folders on the day a request was made for the files in question. Read on:
At a status hearing Wednesday before Judge Paul W. Grimm, the plaintiffs’ attorneys said that officers told them in depositions that the five file cabinet drawers of confidential command records from 2001 and 2002 were shredded due to a shortage of folders.
“We don’t understand why they couldn’t have gone to Office Depot, or simply removed the documents from the folders,” said Kristin Brown, attorney for the plaintiffs.
The recent disclosure by the city that two years worth of confidential files had been shredded despite a court order to preserve them appears to have stalled the case.
Let me be the first to say Mr. Tyler … Bullshit!!!
Baltimore … Get in on the Bullshit!
Editorial: Lame excuses at the police department
Aw come on now just because “the dog ate it” or “it fell into the fire” are plausible excuses to be used by kids neglecting to complete homework, doesn’t mean a large police agency can use the same ones. “We ran out of folders” is indeed lame, its beyond lame … its a lie as to why requested records were destroyed. Of all the folders not to use, those whould have been the ones.
Can we say intentional? Can we say, although the depositions are sealed, they may not indicate a lack of folders as a reason for wanton destruction of evidence? Just who came up with that bullshit anyway? I say there are egrigious lies being told and I say the city Solicitor’s Office and a few others are perpetrating said damn lies. I certainly hope Judge Grimm calls these liars to task or else he will be party to an immoral disservice transgressed against loyal members of the BPD.
We will continue to watch this case as it goes past this embarassingly pathetic stage.
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