The crime is caused by the people in that area, and it is supported by a large group of people in that area who dont trust or want the police around. The people that dont support crime never speak out and obviously dont call the police to deal with it, even when they hear gunshots. The police cant respond to a crime if they dont know it’s happening. Police have rules too. They cant just run around Edgewood and grab people up in hopes of preventing a crime, Reasonable Suspicion and Probable Cause, Look those definitions up.

You are quick to blame the police but accept no responsiblity as an Edgewood resident, and you also offer no solutions. Tell me what exactly you want the police to do to improve the patrol tactics in that area. Keep in mind that the Sheriff’s Office has little support or cooperation from residents or Landlords in that area. Remember “Dont Snitch” either, thats a community state of mind now, not just a drug dealer guideline. Its certainly not the Police’s fault that people in this area commit crimes, thats just an asinine observation on your part. Really , learn to identify gun shots. c’mon? Are you and JM the same person?

Do you really want a police chief who is a political appointee (who do think “hires” police chiefs?) rather than a sheriff who is elected by the citizens of Harford County?

In any case, we can’t have an officer sit on every street corner in the county 24/7/365. When there is a problem, people need to call. When we’re not on calls, most deputies are driving through neighborhoods, stopping suspicious people and known gang members/criminals, investigating cases, stopping cars (and recovering CDS, guns, arresting DUI’s, finding driver’s with suspended licenses or no licenses, etc), handling motor vehicle crashes, and then catching up on paperwork from those law enforcement actions.

This particular incident happened between 11 pm and midnight. During that time is shift change so evening is still in the area and midnight shift is coming on so there are plenty of officers in Edgewood available to respond to a shooting…but someone needs to pick up the damn phone and call.

Our county as a whole has contributed greatly to the Edgewood area. Perhaps it is time for more than a handful of Edgewood residents to contribute to Edgewood.

Dear Edgewood Residents,
It is time to take some responsibility. Pony up. Incorporate. It will be a long hard process, much like growing pains. What would you prefer; growing pains or dying pains? You already know what dying pains are, can you handle it much longer? Are you okay just sitting there while your community turns into an American war zone? It doesn’t have to be this way, but the rest of the county can’t do every thing for you, as you can already see. Edgewood is right on the line of the point of no return. As I see it, you have two choices; shrivel up and die the rest of the way, or rise up and meet the challenge.

P.S. The challenge involves both work and money; pony up.

So you are saying that I should be empathetic to the drug dealers that are not able to overcome their hardships such as you have?? What the hell does that have to do with ethics? Maybe you and your family need a little lesson on ethics, let me educate you.

Good ethics would be doing the RIGHT thing, even when no one is looking, and when it would be easy to do the WRONG thing. Example: The right thing to do when you hear gunshots outside of your house at night is to call the police, even though you might be afraid. The WRONG thing is to convince yourself that it’s just firecrackers because you are too afraid to call, when you know deep down that it’s gunfire, and you know deep down you should do something. That is why your family feels regret, because they know they could have done something and they didn’t.

Maybe next time the “black” drug dealers will accidentally injure a “white” homeowner, since as you say, that’s all that live there, or even worse, a child. Maybe those bullets will miss their target and go right through your kitchen. Will you call 911 then? Or will you convince yourself it’s a ricochet from the firecrackers? I don’t have to feel sorry for you or empathize with anyone to the right thing. The gang member on the street bleeding from a gunshot wound gets the same care that the poor old lady who fell down the steps does. That’s ethics. You do the RIGHT thing because it’s RIGHT, it doesn’t matter what the age sex, sex, race, gang color, or social status is.

Loyola may not include a course in “common sense”, but at least they taught us proper grammar. This quote also clarifies the reason why I included the fact about race. You may not have come out and said it, but people can make clear associations with whom you are talking about. Not being able to understand other people’s circumstances is what causes the ignorance and lack of empathy that would help change the world. It’s okay though, I’m sure at UMD they don’t teach a thing called ethics.

I don’t associate myself with any political view so that is completely irrelevant. Yet another problem with this country that draws people apart.