Crime Surge Overwhelms St. Mary’s County Amid Law Enforcement Leadership Concerns

NorthBeachPerso

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I think you'll find that catch and release is more of a problem in Charles rather than Calvert and St. Mary's at the Circuit Court level. At the District Courts all three have a judge or two who do it (again, Charles more than the other two).
 

DaSDGuy

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I think you'll find that catch and release is more of a problem in Charles rather than Calvert and St. Mary's at the Circuit Court level. At the District Courts all three have a judge or two who do it (again, Charles more than the other two).
Unless it's a minor. They let them go all the time unless they actually kill someone.

Simple test - if the kid is old enough to determine what gender they are, they are old enough to be charged and tried as an adult. They want to act like adults they can face adult consequences for their actions.
 
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awol

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St Mary's has none of the typical suburban enmities such lots of options for restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, highways, promitiy to airports, interstates, etc but it sure is getting the inner city crime. Take a drive down Great Mills Rd, that area in front of Canopy Liquors and the laundry mat is full of junkies and homeless and losers hanging out. They are building a new Aldi, Starbucks, and Royal Farms which will become a hangout for the same trash harrassing people for money. Just yesterday while trying to see what going out of business deals were available at Big Lots, I was approach but two people asking for money and there were two other vagrants hanging out by the entrance. It amazes me that homes off Willows are selling for over $500K when this is considered their area.
 

LightRoasted

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St Mary's has none of the typical suburban enmities such lots of options for restaurants, shopping, and entertainment, highways, promitiy to airports, interstates, etc but it sure is getting the inner city crime. Take a drive down Great Mills Rd, that area in front of Canopy Liquors and the laundry mat is full of junkies and homeless and losers hanging out. They are building a new Aldi, Starbucks, and Royal Farms which will become a hangout for the same trash harrassing people for money. Just yesterday while trying to see what going out of business deals were available at Big Lots, I was approach but two people asking for money and there were two other vagrants hanging out by the entrance. It amazes me that homes off Willows are selling for over $500K when this is considered their area.

You can thank the money seekers, those rentiers, for getting the County Commissioners and their planning and zoning into allowing high density subsidized housing projects to be built that brought all the trash from locales far north. Like a fly to shiat these folks are when projects providing free or $100 a months rent like these are built. it is done purposefully to forever soil the areas in which they are built to create strife.

The majority of times these developments are not natural to the areas character where they are built, which is always usually a single family homes area.
 

OccamsRazor

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I moved here two years ago, always amazed how everyone seem to tolerate crime as it it were an urban area.
Who "tolerates" it? I don't believe anyone is tolerating it. What can be done? It seems changing sheriffs has done nothing. Courts seem to just have a revolving door. What can be done by the law abiding citizens?
 

Czar

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Who "tolerates" it? I don't believe anyone is tolerating it. What can be done? It seems changing sheriffs has done nothing. Courts seem to just have a revolving door. What can be done by the law abiding citizens?
What to do about it?

Seems like the revolving door criminal coddling method isn't working. Lock em' up.
I moved here 25 years ago and thought the exact same thing.
You ride around and you see nice neighborhoods. Confusing to the transplants.
 
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Gilligan

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Seems like the revolving door criminal coddling method isn't working. Lock em' up.
Who do you suggest to do that? Lock 'em up where? Obviously can't won't be any of the authorities currently in place.
 

Gilligan

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I moved here just short of 48 years ago and there was no crime to tolerate.
There was that string of property thefts in 7D....Bowles boys responsible for most of them.. That was about 40 years ago I think..

One of them was on foot and stole a woman's purse and some other stuff on the north side of St. Pat's Crick, by Thompson's Seafood, Then they stole a small skiff and motored across to our side. Abandoned the skiff tied to my dock but took the 10HP outboard with them. Musta been a smallish feller or a weak one because he dropped the outboard in the middle of my woods about 200 yards on....got too heavy I guess. I found it a long time after the crime. Never did catch him...folks talked about that "crime of the century" for quite a while afterward.

We're currently dealing with chronic theft of gasoline, gas tanks, and batteries, from our boats docked in White Neck Creek. I put up a game camera in what I thought was a concealed spot but they stole that too!
 

LightRoasted

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We're currently dealing with chronic theft of gasoline, gas tanks, and batteries, from our boats docked in White Neck Creek. I put up a game camera in what I thought was a concealed spot but they stole that too!


Should use one of those cameras that stream the recording to a server of your choice and phone at the same time, so at least you'll see them stealing it. : )

Similarly, you could put three or more cameras out. Place one, the cheaper of them, in an area that is pretty much guaranteed to be seen by the criminal mind, the other two, hidden and well camouflaged. Most idiots out there, thinking after they found "the one", won't think of looking for anymore in that general vicinity.

Make sure to salt the premises with good looking stealable things such as with some old gas cans filled with water, (they won't open them to check if it is gas. And as an added bonus, they just might put all that water in their cars.), old dead unable-to-hold-a-charge-anymore batteries, shined up pretty like, you were going to get rid of anyway, (with some air tags attached and hidden to find their locations after the steal), etc. to entice them into returning and taking them.

Should also be able to see and record them during the day for help as well for use in later identification. Since these rectums love to scout out areas such a marina's in daylight while pretending to be doing something else such as fishing or scooping crabs off pilings, etc..

If'in ya need'in the funds for such a security mission, you could always reduce the Christmas bonus for @stgislander under the guise of company revenue being down this year. Pretty sure he's been slacking a bit while you've been away in places such a Norway anyway. He'll understand, if not feeling outright guilty about making the business suffer in your absence.
 

Gilligan

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If'in ya need'in the funds for such a security mission, you could always reduce the Christmas bonus for @stgislander under the guise of company revenue being down this year. Pretty sure he's been slacking a bit while you've been away in places such a Norway anyway. He'll understand, if not feeling outright guilty about making the business suffer in your absence.
Finally! Someone who fully understands my situation.
 

Gilligan

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For your consideration ...




Should use one of those cameras that stream the recording to a server of your choice and phone at the same time, so at least you'll see them stealing it. : )

Similarly, you could put three or more cameras out. Place one, the cheaper of them, in an area that is pretty much guaranteed to be seen by the criminal mind, the other two, hidden and well camouflaged. Most idiots out there, thinking after they found "the one", won't think of looking for anymore in that general vicinity.

Make sure to salt the premises with good looking stealable things such as with some old gas cans filled with water, (they won't open them to check if it is gas. And as an added bonus, they just might put all that water in their cars.), old dead unable-to-hold-a-charge-anymore batteries, shined up pretty like, you were going to get rid of anyway, (with some air tags attached and hidden to find their locations after the steal), etc. to entice them into returning and taking them.

Should also be able to see and record them during the day for help as well for use in later identification. Since these rectums love to scout out areas such a marina's in daylight while pretending to be doing something else such as fishing or scooping crabs off pilings, etc..
Good stuff...all options we're pursuing. Currently focused on putting multiple cameras on the island (where we just this week set up internet access for the first time ever....

Love the air tag idea but its gas that they steal most often, pumping it out of our boat tanks. The thieves are believed to be local waterman/men and are coming/going by boat.
 
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PeoplesElbow

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I remember my grandpa telling me about people that needed gone always showing up in abandoned coal mines when they decided to reopen them no matter how well the mine was sealed.
 

Sneakers

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but its gas that they steel most often, pumping it out of our boat tanks
Not quite in-thread, but I just saw a vid where these guys have an electronic device which overrides a gas pump billing system. They pull up, use the device on a pump, and then steal hundreds of gallons of fuel into a huge gas storage tank in the back of their van. The pump display show nothing. They only way they are caught is a remote monitoring system sees lots of fuel being pumped, but no sales.

 

stgislander

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Finally! Someone who fully understands my situation.
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