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--It’s a bad time to be a young rowdy in the Inner Harbor. After several reports of disturbing and seemingly random acts of violence by young people in Baltimore’s premier tourist district, the city police department has gone from trotting out statistics to reassure everyone that the harbor is safe to going out and making sure it actually is. Emblematic of the change is the contrast between Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III’s two recent tours of the area. One, in the middle of the afternoon, consisted of him walking around and insisting to accompanying news cameras that crime is down. The second, conducted late Friday night, featured the commish accosting groups of drunks spilling out of the bars and yelling at them to go home and stay there. Let’s hope he sticks with Plan B.

--The most disturbing thing about the years-long saga of the Schneider family, whose property in Essex was ruined when Baltimore County botched the extension of a sewer line through the yard, has been the attitude of the county government in its half-hearted efforts to make things right. The county lost an attempt Monday to have the family evicted, arguing that the money it had paid when it eventually condemned the property ended its obligation to the clan. But the Schneiders – who have five children and are legal guardians of two more – have been unable to find a comparable place to live. The county argues that it isn’t required to help them do so – that’s only a stipulation of federal and state law, not county law, and only county money was used for the project. But the county should be focused on doing what’s right, not what’s legally required.