I have emailed the Piney Orchard Homeowners Association several times regarding the speeding cars, broken glass, and the graffiti on Strawberry Lake Way. In addition, I have witnessed pedestrians coming very close to getting run over by speeding vehicles while crossing the crosswalks on Strawberry Lake Way. The drivers of the vehicles will not stop for pedestrians crossing the street in a crosswalk. The Piney Orchard Homeowners Association said they would request the Police department to increase their patrols of the area.

Strawberry Lake is a mess with the persistent speeding, cars parked on the townhouse side near GORC Park (Though it is clearly marked no parking on that side of the street) The graffiti spray painted on the street and Saturday while jogging you could follow the blood trail from the incident above. I can't believe this story isn't getting more chatter, 4-5 african americans jump a white jogger at 8:30 on a Friday evening on a pretty major road in what is suppose to be a safe community. Am I and other joggers really at this much risk jogging in the evening in our community? Should people not walk their dogs in their own neighborhood? States like Florida offer concealed weapon permits and stand your ground laws, those laws atleast make a group of 4-5 males question the person they are about to jump. Since we don't have them it would be nice to see the police drive througfh the neighborhood more often instead of sitting in the parking lot of the Waugh Chapel swim club or the church parking lot near Safeway

Just bringing up a point; FL has concealed weapons permits and stand your ground. Look at the Zimmerman/Martin case. First of all, there were a number of burglaries in the area recently which is why the community stood behind Zimmerman to be on armed patrol. But if guns solve anything, why was their a rash of recent burglaries?

And when it's easy to carry concealed, you end up with pseudo-vigilantes who have absolutely no business carrying a weapon.

I lived in Vegas back in the late 80's for 4 years. Anyone could carry concealed yet many areas such as North Vegas were extremely violent. It solves nothing.

Jump me while I'm jogging and its problem solved. The Zimmerman case is mis-application of the law (which is why he will be found guilty) There are a number of instances where the concealed weapon and stand your ground law have worked effectively. To be honest I'm only concerned about how those laws work for law-abiding citizens. I understand that those laws might not help an area like North Vegas, Baltimore City etc..... but criminals shooting criminals are not the type of citizens the laws help, its a guy like this out jogging or walking in his neighborhood, a neighborhood that is generally thought of as safe (Though instances like this are kind of becoming common place on Strawberry Lake way which is a shame) But those types of laws will never get passed in MD

Hmmm...The police are overworked. What happened to the community policing itself. Get outside monitor your neighborhood and CALL the police when you see something suspicious. It wont stop all crime but it sure will help.

4-5 African Americans walking down the street at 8:30pm is not suspicious in itself. It gets real suspicious about the time they jump a guy. If the police patrolled the neighborhood and a person(s) who are contemplating commiting a crime see them drive past they may not commit said crime because in the back of their mind that police officer may drive back past at any moment. You can't call the police everytime you see a person(s) walking down the street that you don't recognize, and I'm sure up until they assualted the jogger they were simply walking down the street. I realize the police are not over staffed and community awareness can be an effective tool, I'm just saying if you have time to sit in idle in parking lots you have time to patrol neighborhoods

I understand your frustration. But do you know what/why the officer is sitting in the parking lots. One is high visibility, another is doing paperwork so they dont have to get paid OT to complete it when they get back to the station. I am sure the officers are restricted on how many and how often they can patrol the neighborhoods because of MONEY.
As far as seeing anyone who isnt normally in a neighborhood, that isnt normally suspicious but when I was growing up people spoke to everyone in the neighborhood whether they were a stranger or friend. This alone will keep most crimes of opportunity from occurring. The potential criminals know you saw them and the neighbors know you are there too. People need to get out in the neighborhood more and the crime will move on. It works. I have seen it happen.

Mindy Patillo is Scott DiBiaso's lurk name and Patch knows.

Does the POCA Board need to check ID for everyone going into the neighborhoods? Get a life Scott

Why is there no uproar about this? If 5 white guys beat a black man it would be all over the news and it would be called a hate crime. Why is it not a hate crime when a group of black males beat a white male?

Any leads?

@ Brian Anytime a white person assults a black one hate crime is the first thing out of peoples mouths.

I'm not trying to stir the pot. The facts are 5 black males beat a white male. I just asked a question.

This is insane! There is definately a double standard in this country in reguard to racism and hate crimes. It always seems when it's against blacks, it's automatically racially motivated, but when it's agaisnt whites, it's not. In this case we don't know if it was a hate crime or not, could just be a robbery.
There was a case recently down in Florida where a white man was attack and beaten almost to death by a large group (article says about 20) of black teens. The eye witness said after beating the man, the teens said "That's justice for Trayvon". I would think that should be a hate crime, but whomever wrote the article did not mention it.

Brian the point I am trying to make is whenever wgite person is accused of attacking a black person it is immediatly reported as being a possible hate crime. but when it is blacks attacking a white person it is not. I am not saying this case is a hate crime since I don't have all the information.

The article above doesn't describe the race of the perpetrators or the victim. Is there another article on this somewhere that does?

It is very poor reporting (or intentionally misleading) to not mention pertinent details from the police report. I think patch can do better.

It is the policy of Patch—and nearly all news organizations—to refrain from reporting suspects' race unless there is additional credible information that describes the suspects and would aid the public in identifying them. In this case, there was no other information provided.

i remember 15yrs ago there was no strawberry lakeway and 20yrs ago you would of said whats piney orchard... when you crowd large groups of people into a small area such as strawberry lakeway your going to get crime...furthermore most of you dont realize but there is low income housing right next to your 400k townhouses lol what did you really expect to happen baltimore city and district of columbia are moving in wake up people and stop voting for idiots that put these people in "equal housing" next to your 400k th its rather simple....

and as for lazy cops i can attest to that ive caught em sleeping behind the dugouts at gambrills athletic club the property that aligns the dairy farm or the short cut people use to avoid the merge at rt3 and 175 i wanna say its mcknew rd what else could he be doing with his interior lights headlights and seat reclined back at 1am in the morning

dont assume because they are cops that they perform their duties and are honest people lol...i have 3 aacpd friends that are cops 75% of thier shift is spent bsing and f*ing off it ticks me off and i dont bite my tongue when i hear them mention it