Dan Rodricks, supporting the victims?

[Lawman 27]

I think not!!!


Dan's latest rant* "What downtown needs: More cops, fewer knuckleheads" would be great if it came from someone who, even on occassion, sided with law and order.

From his latest rant:

He (a Police Officer) was the first cop I saw, and I guess his duty was in the cause of public safety, but I'd much rather have seen the man on foot patrol, strolling the sidewalks and Inner Harbor promenade with the rest of us.

WHAT? Dan has made his distaste for the Police clear over and over. NOW he needs a Cop?
Gee Dan, maybe if the City supported its Police, you might not have a shortage of good Cops. Gee Dan, take a ride along with the Cops and you'll see that most Officers are trapped riding call to call to call and don't have near the time to actually do their jobs.

His presence certainly would have been appreciated 30 minutes later, when a squadron of eight skinny boys on bicycles decided to pop wheelies and fly along the brick walkway between the World Trade Center and the National Aquarium, oblivious (or maybe not) to pedestrians.

HUH? Dan, have you forgotten what happened to the last Officer who even tried to make the inner harbor a safe family area? That would be the 19-year veteran officer, Salvatore Rivieri. You remember him, don't you? With the help of your paper, Sal was FIRED for trying to keep the inner harbor a family friendly area.

Come to think of it, your paper was quick to remind the citizens that the BPD would NOT tolerate Police, but would gladly welcome crime (as long as it was 'well meaning' crime). So it kind of figures that the Sun is responsible for the inner harbor's crime.

===>Look Dan, you want to stop crime at the inner harbor? Stop acting shocked when the Commissioner calls bad guys "Knuckleheads." Stop freaking when gangs of kids are stopped by the Police. Stop writing about how cute and cuddily these kids are and how evil the Police are.

It doesn't take much for people to start howling that the end is near, nor for gleeful bigots to inject racial poison and laugh their told-you-so's about city life.

Racial poison.

Okay, this is the Dan I know. Injecting race into an issue to cloud the problem. I think everything is back to normal now.


* http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opi...4049592.column

[crabsnbeer]

I like this part

On a Friday night stroll along the waterfront in March friends marveled at how busy the bars and restaurants were, how the streets were jumping. Some were amazed at new buildings and businesses, especially on the east side of the harbor. "Those people in the suburbs," a friend said, "the ones who say no one wants to go to Baltimore — have they even been here lately to see all this?"

Who wants to bet that he made this line up?

[ivanbalt]

I know our police have more important things to do, but this was the Inner Harbor, the center of Baltimore public life. It needs to be respected and protected. Harborplace, the aquarium, the Power Plant, Pier 6, The Gallery, Pratt Street and the whole long stretch of hotels, offices and businesses to the convention center and Camden Yards — it took three decades to build all that, to transform an industrial waterfront and empty-at-night downtown into a destination for tourists and a point of pride for the most jaded city dwellers.

Translation: "the police need to make the places I go more safe"

Gotta love the cop haters who later cry for police.

[MooGoo]

I think not!!!


Dan's latest rant* "What downtown needs: More cops, fewer knuckleheads" would be great if it came from someone who, even on occassion, sided with law and order.

From his latest rant:



WHAT? Dan has made his distaste for the Police clear over and over. NOW he needs a Cop?
Gee Dan, maybe if the City supported its Police, you might not have a shortage of good Cops. Gee Dan, take a ride along with the Cops and you'll see that most Officers are trapped riding call to call to call and don't have near the time to actually do their jobs.



HUH? Dan, have you forgotten what happened to the last Officer who even tried to make the inner harbor a safe family area? That would be the 19-year veteran officer, Salvatore Rivieri. You remember him, don't you? With the help of your paper, Sal was FIRED for trying to keep the inner harbor a family friendly area.

Come to think of it, your paper was quick to remind the citizens that the BPD would NOT tolerate Police, but would gladly welcome crime (as long as it was 'well meaning' crime). So it kind of figures that the Sun is responsible for the inner harbor's crime.

===>Look Dan, you want to stop crime at the inner harbor? Stop acting shocked when the Commissioner calls bad guys "Knuckleheads." Stop freaking when gangs of kids are stopped by the Police. Stop writing about how cute and cuddily these kids are and how evil the Police are.



Racial poison.

Okay, this is the Dan I know. Injecting race into an issue to cloud the problem. I think everything is back to normal now.


* http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opi...4049592.column

Spot on! great post!

[TruthLies]

Dan Rodricks is still a resident of the great Baltimore city.

[crabsnbeer]

And Butler, Md

[MooGoo]

Ah,...... rubbing elbows with the horsey set, now is he?

The same 1%ers he villifies in his column?

[Omaha Beach]

Would you please refer no truth to a google map so he can see that Butler is certainly not in the City limits. In fact you coukd say that it is not even on the same planet as Baltimore City considering the disparity in the crime and poverty rates. Slim chance of Danny Boy running into one of his beloved cons like Mark Farley Grant out in horse country.

[Marshan Man]

Lawman do you do anything other than obsessively whine about how police are treated?

[ChiefWiggum]

When you change an LEO's pension in mid-career, I would complain at every chance I got.

[Lawman 27]

Lawman do you do anything other than obsessively whine about how police are treated?

M/M,

Good afternoon good sir,

In this case I think that certain things need to be said.

-BPD Officers do all they can with NO SUPPORT from the Commissioner and the Mayor. If an Officer stands up to make a difference in the City, you can bet someone will be ready to dump on them AND you can bet Dan will be right there to back the criminals.
-Instead of Dan writing about helping the Officers do their job, Dan continually degrades them as much as possible.
-Judging from his writing, Dan has little to no contact with real life. That being said, I don't think he is the person to be writing about anything that happens in the City.

FINALLY:

Dan makes some references to 'quality of life' issues at the Inner Harbor. This is laughable because Police know if they did come to Dan's aid, he (Dan) would be the first to write a column blasting the honest Officers for doing their jobs.

P.S. When I worked for the City, I repeatedly asked Dan to ride along with us. It would have given him the chance to see what Police really dealt with. Never heard from Dan concerning that. Although I can not give you a tour, you are welcome to do a ride along with any district you like. You may find it informative.

[boink]

And Butler, Md

not far from whiny uber liberal Marc Steiner, who lives in Sparks

[county resident]

http://sdatcert3.resiusa.org/rp_rewr...5%201800012564

is this danny boys place?