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Why do we kill?

Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Alan Z. Forman - Jul. 29 (Opinion) - he excessively high murder rate in Baltimore will not decrease significantly until “the borders of the city are opened up to the state,” a forum filmed and aired live online by C-SPAN was told Thursday evening by the publisher of Investigative Voice and a retired chief homicide detective who addressed an overflow gathering at the independent bookstore Atomic Books in Hampden.

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WHY DO WE KILL? - The murder of Melody Smith

Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Kelvin Sewell, Stephen Janis - Jul. 02 (Opinion) - What does it mean to be a cop? And why do we have a criminal justice system at all? Who are we supposed protect? The innocent? the helpless?

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Today Joe College Is a Cop

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Fishbowl - By B. Boyd - Jun. 17 (Opinion) - News of Baltimore cop Adam Braskich's acceptance to Harvard Law for fall 2011 made me pause and daydream. I thought to myself, "If more police officers pursued college and grad degrees, imagine how much safer we'd all feel. Your average cop would be more self-aware, more meditative/rational, less trigger-happy/hot-headed, no?"

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Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Crime - Mar. 30 (Opinion) - The man shot at the Frankford Gardens Shopping Center at 5400 Sinclair Lane has died.

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INSIDE BALTIMORE HOMICIDE — He ‘hurt the boy’: The case of child killer Melvin Jones

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Kelvin Sewell, Stephen Janis - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - After awhile death becomes a taste, not an odor. I mean, you've smelled it so many times, where bodies decompose and cook on hot summer nights, festering in the basements of vacant row homes and stuffed inside the trunks of abandoned cars left to rot for days. You smell it too, downstairs in the city morgue where corpses lie in neat rows outside the autopsy room after a weekend of bloodshed.

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Making the scene

Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Crime - Mar. 23 (Opinion) - Whoa! City officer charged with sexually abusing a minor, and the dept apparently has no compunction about putting his name right on out there.

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INSIDE BALTIMORE HOMICIDE — The case files of forrmer homicide detective Kelvin Sewell

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Kelvin Sewell, Stephen Janis - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - How do children as young as 14 find the cold-blooded nerve to shoot a 67-year old-grandmother in the back of the head on a dare? Why does a 52–year-old man believe that an 11-year-old boy is a willing lover, a life partner deserving of being stabbed to death in a jealous rage These are the questions Kelvin Sewell has tried to answer between trips to the morgue, sitting in the living rooms of grieving mothers, and in the back alleys standing over the bodies of young men shot dead before their eighteenth birthdays.

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INSIDE BALTIMORE HOMICIDE — ‘I Bet You Can’t Shoot That Lady’: The case of 14-year-old killer Devon Richardson

Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Investigative Voice - By Kelvin Sewell, Stephen Janis - Mar. 21 (Opinion) - In the fall of 2006, 67-year-old Janice Letmate keeled over on a sidewalk in Northeast Baltimore and died. She had just gotten off the bus and was walking home when witnesses say she simply fell face forward to the ground and died. Soon we discovered she was shot in the back of the head. But who shot her and why, will live with me forever.

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2037 Orleans Street

Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0700

Baltimore Slumlord Watch - Mar. 20 (Opinion) - This home is owned by Melvin Russell, commanding officer of the Baltimore City Police, Eastern District Station. Perhaps that explains why Major Russell has never been hauled into housing court for the numerous violations involving this property. Please note the trash, and open/missing windows.

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How ethics, tow companies, and political contributions get mixed together in Baltimore

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Charm City Current - By Adam Meister - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - I found two interesting tidbits in the Sun’s police towing scheme story. From the article: “I expect all City employees to serve the public with the highest level of integrity, and I will not tolerate criminal or unethical activity by any city employee,” said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake in a statement.”

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Police commander’s accident reveals importance of taxpayer-financed take-home cars

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Investigative Voice - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - I’m sure Investigative Voice's readers, along with many other taxpaying residents of Charm City, are breathing a sigh of relief today knowing that Homicide Commander Maj. Terrence P. McLarney was driving a take-home police vehicle when he ran into a ditch and found his way to his outside-the-Baltimore-City-limits residence without notifying authorities.

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Taking it to the streets

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Crime - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - The Baltimore Police Dept is henceforth posting regular online YouTube updates for concerned citizens. Here's the first of many, they say.

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Can't help but ask...

Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Baltimore Crime - Mar. 07 (Opinion) - Six hundred and twenty-eight words in the Sun for George Marshall. Wonder how that word count compares to the word counts of the year's 28 other victims?

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Addressing the city’s towing kickback scandal head-on

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

Center Maryland - By Donald C. Fry - Mar. 04 (Opinion) - It’s encouraging that both Bealefeld and Rawlings-Blake have demonstrably resisted the temptation to downplay the seriousness of this police kickback scheme. They have done quite the opposite.

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