[Scan-DC] Baltimore Crime Beat

[Doug Kitchener]

If the general public had scanners and they ever heard 1% of the madness and stupidity that goes on in both police and fire, there would be a _lot_ of hell raised...

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> From: alan at henney.com
> To: Scan-DC at mailman.qth.net
> Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:52:05 -0400
> Subject: [Scan-DC] Baltimore Crime Beat
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> Baltimore Crime Beat
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> June 27, 2009 Saturday 9:15 PM EST
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> Disturbance ties up cops
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> BYLINE: Peter Hermann
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> LENGTH: 269 words
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> Jun. 27, 2009 (Baltimore Sun delivered by Newstex) --
> If anyone wonders what can tie up a Baltimore police district and delay response to other calls, here's one overhead on the scanner on an otherwise quiet Saturday night. Police were trying to deal with a large party that attracted up to 300 people on Seidel Avenue off Bel Air Road in Northeast Baltimore about 9 p.m.
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> After several cruisers went up there, an officer got on the radio and shouted: "We need every available unit up there." That attracted a pile of cops who struggled for about 15 minutes to get the crowd under control and out of the area.
> At one point, an officer said: "We're trying to negotiate" to which another officer, possibly a supervsor, responded, "Tell them to go inside or leave the area. Tell them to shut it down, go inside or leave the area."
> I was listening to the scanner in the office and I don't know what kind of party this was, but the police had the helicopter, Foxtrot, fly low. Said an officer: "Have him make an announcement. Everybody has been warned not to loiter. Anybody standing will be arrested."
> The air went quiet for a few minutes. At 9:15 p.m., an officer called off the troops, saying: "Seidel looks pretty good right now."
> That was good news to the dispatcher who told the officers, "We got 18 calls pending, six are priority one."
> A few minutes later, another officer asked over the air, "I'm just curious, how many arrests did we get out of there."
> The dispatcher asked and one voice answered, "I know I just took one in."
> "That's what I thought," the first officer said. "Incredible."


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