Baltimore

#thingsanassholewouldsay

 

Must be the long hair.

 

Heroin dealing is in every neighborhood. My cousin just retired from teh Allegheny County Sheriffs office in Pittsburgh where he was an undercover vice cop. He said they fight heroin in the rich suburbs just as much as the burned-out shitholes that had the steel industry abandon them 30 years ago. In fact, he said it's worse in Pittsburgh's richer suburbs because those people can afford as much of the shit as they want.

Legalize every damned ounce of it and put a 10-percent "high tax" on it. You'll kill off every drug cartel and close the budget deficit in a week.

 

I can't remember the exact details; I think it was on one of the CBS national newscasts this week, that reported 25 percent of Black teens did not have a high school diploma. Maybe they were referring to the city of Baltimore, or the county. Regardless, this is unacceptable and it's the kind of change that needs to start at home. Someone needs to take the first step to try to make sure their kids have better opportunities than they're getting.

 

Yep. Totally the same.

 

The only verification The Post needed was to make sure the copy of this government document they had been given was authentic. This a sworn affidavit for probable cause attached to a search warrant, which was granted. That means a police officer swore an oath, the violation of which he can be charged with perjury or contempt if the information contained in the affidavit is later found to be false. And a judge reviewed that affidavit and signed off on it.

As for the story within the affidavit, The Post should continue to report on its veracity and continue its efforts to reach the prisoner and his attorney. But there is no reason to withhold reporting on a search warrant affidavit once you've verified its real.

 

Yes, because all of those drug cartels would immediately start selling it legally and pay every cent of tax owed on it.

 

There are still scoundrels who sell cigarettes and booze without paying all the tax, but it ain't like prohibition days.

 

I watched a bit of the Baltimore mayor's speechifying earlier today. She blamed the Sun and their inaccurate reporting on a variety of things police related.

I'd guess she said more, but I turned it off. She is not the next Nancy Pelosi, that's for damn sure.

 

I'm well aware that, legally, the Post is in the clear. Clarification, as I understand it: The police investigator likely didn't swear an oath, because he/she didn't make the statement - the prisoner did, and therefore he'd have taken the oath.

Still, that doesn't make it responsible journalism. Especially when they admittedly focused on one small part of a much larger investigation (the search warrant in question was to gain access to the arresting officer's uniform), which they presumably also had access to and ignored. And, again, it provided no context, corroboration or reconciliation with every other report on the matter.

 

"Apparently they were stopping everyone driving down that part-tic-u-lar sidewalk. That's profiling. And that's wrong."

 

I think we can all agree that The Washington Post should refrain from publishing any questionable information that comes from a governmental source.