Open Letter to Baltimore Mayor Dixon

Dear Mayor Dixon:

Apparently Baltimore City thinks it is outside the U.S., like “Camp Freedom” at Guantanimo. Get arrested in the City? Do at least 10 or 12 hours inside the mausoleum known as the Detention Center, incommunicado, without access to counsel. Any other jurisdiction around the state and its 3-4 hours, with access to a lawyer. This way, even if the State’s Attorney enters a Nolle Prosequi you have still been punished. After all, the cops wouldn’t arrest you if you were not guilty, would they?

Bull. The Baltimore cops would bust the people at a costume party for impersonation.

Fine. Your cops keep acting like that and I will keep staying out of the city. I come to concerts at the Meyerhoff maybe half a dozen times a year, and then get the hell out before I get busted for jaywalking or maybe for aiding and abetting someone else’s jaywalking.

Provide state financial help for the City? Forget it. I used to live in the city years ago, and used to have fond feelings. I supported aid to the City.

Until that couple from Pennsylvania got busted a couple years ago near the stadium for getting lost, then “parking” in a no-parking zone while they tried to get someone to direct them to a highway home. They spent half a day in Gitmo on the Patapsco.

Then my daughter got busted on a phony shoplifting rap and got put in Gitmo on the Patapsco. I realized Baltimore had become place to stay the hell away from, a post apocalyptic jungle like in a bad sci-fi movie. Good luck to you. You need it.