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After two days of shooting and weeks of waiting, we can finally watch the British Broadcasting Corp. video of me talking about crime in the city. I'll let the video do the talking -- I have to say I'm impressed by the way they compacted 30 hours of footage into about five minutes and still preserved just about everything we did.
It's set to air tonight at 7 p.m. on BBC America (Comcast Channel 114). My impressions are in today's column.
Peter Hermann started covering news for The Baltimore Sun in 1990, first in Anne Arundel County and, starting in 1994, reporting on the Baltimore Police Department. In 2001, he was assigned to Jerusalem as the Baltimore Sun's Middle East correspondent. He returned in 2005 as an assistant city editor overseeing crime coverage. In 2008, Peter returned to the beat as a daily reporter and blogger. A recent BBC report featured him in a segment on the harsh realities of covering crime in Baltimore.
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Great work to you and to the BBC crew. Very well done. Keep up the quality reporting and hard work!
Posted by: Matt | May 20, 2009 5:38 PM
Keep up the good work Peter. The more we talk about this stuff, the sooner we can fix it. Neighborhoods will soon get fed up and take the power away from the criminals.
Posted by: Drew | May 21, 2009 10:57 AM
Thank you for that insightful commentary.
Posted by: Dunn | May 21, 2009 11:11 AM
very good work , an honest and brutal report about the crime in Baltimore city .I moved to (C)HARM city 5 years ago , the violent crime within the black community is unforgivable , i,ve lived /visited many cities Galway(ire), Sydney(aus), Toronto(can), London(eng) Berlin(ger), Cape Town(sth africa) to name but a few , what is wrong with the black community in Baltimore city? look at the documentary BOYS OF BARAKA!!the black community KILL each other at will they don,t/won,t go to school,they form GANGS , deal drugs, They even have this DON,T SNITCH&hip hop CULTURE, what is that about? how can you help a community if they won,t help eachother and others to fix/solve violent crime .They should follow the example of people like Condi Rice, Barak Obama , and DR Ben Carson,¬ the hip hop artists ,i,m leaving the city shortly Because of the crime in my neighborhood , Mr Zack Sowers(RIP) was murdered 2 blocks from my house by 4 black youths (all with extensive criminal records) Enough is enough , wake up Baltimore CITY , and thank you Peter for very good documentary
Posted by: walt murray | May 22, 2009 12:32 PM
Just watched this -- nice work Peter, as well as to the BBC crew..it all looked so seamless...
Posted by: Kris | May 27, 2009 12:41 PM
When's the "drug war" going to end? This is all caused by drug prohibition. When was the last time anyone was killed in a liquor transaction? When was the last time liquor store owners and distributors shot it out? They don't because they can bring disputes into a court of law, unlike drug disputes. They can go to the police if there is a theft or robbery, unlike in the drug trade.
Plus, prohibition drives the prices up so that addicts have to commit crimes (or more crimes) to support their habits. The actual cost of heroin and cocaine is cheap enough that one could support an addiction on one's own wages or even by panhandling. In Vietnam, the only way to find an addict was through drug testing because they didn't commit crimes. They supported their habit on their pay, since the drugs were so cheap.
The real guilty parties here are the drug warriors, the prohibitionists. They wallow in sanctimonious false-righteousness, but in reality, they have blood on their hands and guilt in their soul. If there is a God, he or she will punish the drug warriors.
Posted by: Bruce Dovner | October 4, 2010 12:52 PM