Is it just me or is crime starting to really jump here in Charles County? You see according to Crime Reports, it sure looks like it, there’s been 105 B&E’s in the County in the past 30 days, and if you want to check it out here’s the website;

https://www.crimereports.com

Another question I have is why aren’t all the crimes that happen in our County posted in the Police Briefs’ section of the Independent newspaper? I mean it seems like the only thing posted there on a regular basis is if someone’s fancy wheel’s get stolen off their vehicle, heck I’ve been told they’ve set up a real top notch “Task Force” to get to the bottom of the wheel thief’s here in the County.

But the sad thing is there still being stolen in our County on a regular basis, so I guess it’s a mute point to ask for a “Task Force” to stop the B&E’s…

No, it isn’t you, I’ve noticed it for a long time, and I don’t care what reports people bring up stating crime is down, I believe crime has definitely risen especially after that lame flyer went out telling everyone to be a “Nosey Neighbor”. All that flyer did was to tell the bad guys out there that the CCSO can’t handle the crime in our county.

Coyote - 19 November 2011 07:21 PM

No, it isn’t you, I’ve noticed it for a long time, and I don’t care what reports people bring up stating crime is down, I believe crime has definitely risen especially after that lame flyer went out telling everyone to be a “Nosey Neighbor”. All that flyer did was to tell the bad guys out there that the CCSO can’t handle the crime in our county.

I can’t say what the bad guys would take away from the flyer, but, I can tell you what this citizen’s perception of it was - I saw it as a way to create a strong bond between the community and the sheriff’s officers, working together, to make Charles County safer.  IF I were a bad guy, (I’m not one, so, it’s hard to know for sure) I think I would be concerned that people would pay more attention…not turn a blind eye to what I may be about to do…Even if I’m wrong on that count, if citizens step up and work together with the sheriff’s office, we still win…what am I missing?

Why does the “OFFICIAL” CCSO webpage state there was only one (1) B&E in the Pinefield area of Charles County between 10/01/11 and 10/31/11, when there was actually seven (7) B&E’s during that time period. Hmmm sounds like fuzzy math to me, I wonder what other crime stats aren’t posted.

Crime is up everywhere, if you pay close attention to the news, read the papers and keep on top of events one would see that crime is spiraling out of control, not just here in Charles County, but all over the world. But lets look on the Simi regional level…We’ve had what, two college students killed over trivial items, like music playing, heck one of the murders was from right here in Charles County!

What about the on-going wheel theft that’s been plaguing the county for a couple of years now?

However, this is a multifaceted problem, and a slippery slope, on one hand we feel the police are not doing enough, on the other hand, we (me included) get upset when the sheriff says convict.

What is the answer? I truly have no idea, other than make the punishments fit the crimes, stop being soft on crime from the judicial level, after someone is convicted, by a court or jury, stop handing out, parole, stop giving probation. Have criminals serve 100% of their sentence in prison. Increase the time of visits an inmate must serve, so that a question can be asked in their brain, is it truly worth me robbing this person for a true 20 years in prison?

Bring to our state the three strikes rule, as in other states, on your third convection you are in jail for life, no if’s ands or buts’.

Jails are over crowed, no problem, build bigger ones.

Allow our residents the rights to arm themselves as they do in Virginia? (Wish)…

The following is going to be controversial, read if you wish, these are my own thoughts, and are not thoughts of anyone other than myself, they come from my readings, news reports and my own experiences….

As our county grows, and as we continue to build and build, we are increasing our population. With that comes the ill side of growing, that being crime. As one of our previous commissioners stated, and if we chose to like it or not most of our crime is coming from our neighbors to the North, Prince Georges County and Washington D.C….

My reasons for believing that….

As those community’s clean up their act, and rejuvenate local property,  rent and the housing market increase, as the rents increase, low income people move, and move to where they can afford, and where transportation will move them about….(Ride on)

So as long as Charles continues to build apartments, town houses and other so called “affordable housing” we will be brining in to the county problems other jurisdictions have moved and/or forced out through revitalization or rent/housing increased.

Just A few years ago, Jack Johnson, then County executive of Prince Georges County, started a project that would razed entire apartment communities that were plagued with crime, murder, drugs, theft, assaults…These were located in Seat Pleasant, Landover, Oxon Hill, Suitland and other areas. 

The Shaw area and other communities in D.C such as the H & 8 street corridor were also in the transition mode, with increasing rents propertys being razed and refurbished.

Just where do you think the residents of the Prince Georges, Shaw and the H & 8 street corridor’s crime plagued communities moved, once their apartments were torn down and affordable housing was no longer an option for them in Gorgeous Prince Georges and Wonderful Washington?

Hello Chuck…..

Slow down the affortable housing market… we are full! We cannot continue to support, sorry our well has literally run dry! Our roads cannot handle the traffic and our police cannot handle the crime, our Fire /EMS cannot handle the call load…Our commissioners need to STOP and allow the county to catch its breath, before we all suffocate.

Amen brother, you hit the nail on the head with your post!!!!!!!!!!

Coyote,
Between daily Press Releases and information downloaded daily to CrimeReports.com, the Sheriff’s Office does everything in our power to keep the community informed.  We even have a facebook page and “tweet”.  I think it also an important fact that the submission of information to CrimeReports.com is voluntary and not required by any law or other mandate.  Sheriff Coffey was one of the first to jump on board when this tool became available to us.  Another thing that one must keep in mind when looking at the data collected on CrimeReports.com is the information comes from what we refer to as a call sheet.  So when you read there was “5” burglaries during a given time period, this includes all degrees of burglary to include someone breaking into a shed in a back yard, to the most serious offense of breaking into an occupied home.  This is the same for all other crimes that are classified in degrees.  If you looked at the map on CrimeReports.com, you would assume that Civista Medical Center is one of the most violent locations in the community.  When in fact, the location for this information comes from the call sheet and that is the address where the officer(s) were dispatched to.  If you look at the map around Mall Circle you will see a lot of theft calls.  One could come to the conclusion that Mall Circle is a high crime area.  When in fact most of the theft crimes are “shop lifting”.  In Maryland there is not a specific law for shop lifting, thus it is classified as a theft.  So even though all the data is provided to CrimeReports.com it is important to understand that this is the initial information collected.  CrimeReports.com does not reclassify data either.  So for example if a person reports that he was robbed but we later find out that it was a false report, this data does not get reported to Crimereports.com.  It is not that we don’t want to report that data, but that service is not available.  I hope this information is helpful.  If you or anyone else has any additional questions about this subject matter or any other matter, please do not hesitate calling me at 301-609-6441.  If I can’t answer your question, I will find someone who can.  Everyone have a safe and happy Thanksgiving.

Now I find out that the “OFFICIAL” CCSO web page shows no B&E’s in Pinefield area between 09/01/11 and 09/30/11, when in actuality there were 4. Come on, how hard is it to look at the reports in a computer, tally the numbers, than transcribe them on to their web page. Oops there’s that fuzzy math again.

When a CCSO Deputy tells you crime is out of control in our county, I think we should stand-up and listen. I was talking to a couple of deputies the other day (Saturday) at the WaWa in White Plains and asked them point blank if crime was on the rise, and both of them told me yes.

If crime is out of control in Charles County I do beleive we would see it a lot.  I tend to beleive that in certain areas crime is elevated because of the PG mentality.  If its out of control here its out of control everywhere Cop’s are like most people “if they aint bitching they aint happy”
Remember we live in a state thats run by liberals so its got to be the “the Mans fault” send some more tax dollars to PG, Baltimore City and things will get better.

I wanted to reach out to the “Community Policing Officer” for my area to see what is being done in my community to curb the tide of B&E’s in my area, but low and behold I find-out the position is vacant and there is no Deputy assigned to my area. I find this kind of strange seeing that the area I live in has been hit with a huge spike in various types of crime.

jdman1 - 28 November 2011 03:10 PM

If crime is out of control in Charles County I do beleive we would see it a lot.  I tend to beleive that in certain areas crime is elevated because of the PG mentality.  If its out of control here its out of control everywhere Cop’s are like most people “if they aint bitching they aint happy”
Remember we live in a state thats run by liberals so its got to be the “the Mans fault” send some more tax dollars to PG, Baltimore City and things will get better.

Just how do you expect to “See it”? Just what is the “Pg mentality” (was going there but decided not too)...Yes, crime is out of control in every community, I just saw a sign on the way home from Prince Georges Police… 0 Tolerance on CRIME… hmm ok, I guess that better then a little tolerance.

jdman1 please express yourself a little bit deeper.

I dont see cops “bitching” I see them and us frustrated, and ticked…. there is a difference…..

Who is “the Man” since we are going to point fingers, I would like a clear picture of who I am pointing at.

How will sending tax dollars to “PG and Baltimore city”  make things better…

If jdman1 had the control, and jdman1 ran the government, what would jdman1 do?

This is a topic we can ponder over, who know’s you may hit the problem smack on the head.

Rocky Raccoon - 29 November 2011 05:44 PM

jdman1 - 28 November 2011 03:10 PM

If crime is out of control in Charles County I do beleive we would see it a lot.  I tend to beleive that in certain areas crime is elevated because of the PG mentality.  If its out of control here its out of control everywhere Cop’s are like most people “if they aint bitching they aint happy”
Remember we live in a state thats run by liberals so its got to be the “the Mans fault” send some more tax dollars to PG, Baltimore City and things will get better.

 

Just how do you expect to “See it”? Just what is the “Pg mentality” (was going there but decided not too)...Yes, crime is out of control in every community, I just saw a sign on the way home from Prince Georges Police… 0 Tolerance on CRIME… hmm ok, I guess that better then a little tolerance.

jdman1 please express yourself a little bit deeper.

I dont see cops “bitching” I see them and us frustrated, and ticked…. there is a difference…..

Who is “the Man” since we are going to point fingers, I would like a clear picture of who I am pointing at.

How will sending tax dollars to “PG and Baltimore city”  make things better…

If jdman1 had the control, and jdman1 ran the government, what would jdman1 do?

This is a topic we can ponder over, who know’s you may hit the problem smack on the head.

What, personally would you like to see done?

A crime to property or an offense to a person happens every 2-3 days in just the Pinefield area of our County and certain people or organizations within our County have the audacity or impudence to say “Crime in our County is going down”. Well I call people with this type of mentality and state of mind “putzes”.

Crime is not going down, and is definitely getting worse, and what is really scary is the types of crimes being committed by the thugs in our County are getting more and more dangerous, blatant, and deliberate.

I have finally realized why the northern end of our County is known as “Southern Pee Gee”, it seems like you can’t tell the difference anymore when you cross the County line, let’s face it people when you have “Hookers” and “Crack Whores” hanging-out on 925 (Old Washington Rd.) you might as well say parts of our county have turned into the “Hood” or a “Ghetto”, and a group of people with authority have their collective heads stuck in the sand.

Hey Commissioner, if you have any pull within the County, I think now is time for you to use it, seeing that the area(s) I’ve mentioned are within your District, and if you don’t have any pull, what good are you to us?

Just like my Father use to say “Why is it, a 12 year old can find a drug dealer, but the Police can’t”. Now to paraphrase this a little “Why is it, everyone else can see crime on the rise in our County, but the Sheriff’s Office can’t”.