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The uproar over Breonna Taylor has cooled off a bit. Those who feel the need will continue to stir. Whatever inconvenient facts come along will be ignored. Cognitive dissonance, and narcotizing dysfunction, are real. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Louisville Metro Police Department compiled a 39 page report that was leaked to the press. Much of the report is transcripts of phone calls made from jail. The people in these calls do not look good. They argue, say the n-word, and generally act like a bunch of jerks. Jamarcus Cordell Glover, the primary person we are looking at today, was a known crack/fentynyl dealer. After a while, the reader is left with a feeling of disgust for the people in these calls.
JCG was a former lover of Breonna Taylor. There were indications of a continuing business relationship. Was Breonna Taylor dealing drugs? It is tough to say. Were her hands clean? Almost certainly not. Associating with drug dealers is not a reason to be killed. However, it does made this sad occurrence much more likely.
“PBI detectives … 03/13/2020 – executed simultaneous search warrants at 2424 Elliott Avenue, 2425 Elliott Avenue, 2426 Elliott Avenue, and 3003 Springfield Drive #4 (see attached). During a search of 2424 Elliott Avenue, PBI detectives were able to recover a large amount of suspected crack cocaine and suspected Fentanyl pills … Jamarcus Glover, Demarius Bowman, Rayshawn Lee, and Alicia Jones were located at 2424 Elliott Avenue at the time the search warrants were executed. … When the search warrant was executed at 3003 Springfield Drive #4, which Breonna Taylor was listed on, an officer involved shooting (OIS) occurred and as a result Breonna Taylor was killed. Present inside the apartment at the time the search warrant was executed was Breonna Taylor and Kenneth Walker.” (Demarius Bowman is the brother of Fernandez Bowman, whose body was found in a car rented by Breonna Taylor on December 3, 2016)
JCG made a series of calls from jail on March 13. It should be noted that we don’t know if he is telling the truth in these calls. There was a recorded message at the start of these calls: “This is a prepaid collect call from an inmate at Louisville metropolitan corrections department. This is not a protected or privileged phone call. This call is subject to recording and monitoring. To accept charges press one to refuse char … Thank you for using securus. You may start the conversation now.” What follows are selected quotes from these calls.
08:52 J Glover calls Kiera Bradley, the mother of JCG’s child.
KB – “Chop that girl got killed over you.”
09:27 JCG calls KB
JCG – “I’m hurt my name gettin called about Bre’s death … This ***** (Kenneth Walker) in jail … this ***** got Bre dead … At the end of the day it was not my fault. It’s this *****’s fault that’s in here. The reason why it happened, the ***** is sittin right here.”
KB – “Okay did y’all talk or is he still on some defensive shit?”
JCG – “He said they were beating on the door.”
11:30 JCG calls KB, tells her to put Domo (Dominique Crenshaw) on the line.
JCG – “What up Domo (Dominique Crenshaw) … Kenneth just got her killed *****. Sitting in this jail like it’s all good, like he’s straight, like it ain’t his fault.”
DC – “So he the one shooting the gun?”
JMG – “Yeah he shoots at the police, they shoot back, Bre in the hallway and she gets killed.”
12:27 JCG calls KB
KB – “Everybody’s calling because their saying your baby momma got killed. … Her momma (Breonna Taylor’s mother) and the no limit crew… they basically like the ***** that she was fucking with got her all caught up … the no limit they don’t play.”
JCG – “Man I don’t care.”
KB – “I know you don’t care, you don’t care about shit.”
12:58 JCG calls unknown female
JCG – “He (Kenneth Walker) said motherfuckers knocked on the door but he didn’t know who it was. They asked who it is but don’t nobody say nothin … He said they kicked that door and he “bocked” on them. He said they started shooting back and Bre was in the hallway and she caught bullets … Scott (Scott Barton – J. Glover’s attorney) know Bre, he know her, he been dealing with me and Bre the whole time I’ve been going through this shit.”
13:07 JCG calls KB
They argue over him not being honest and him, having money at other people’s house.
JCG – “Why are you doing this?”
KB – “Cuz my feelings are hurt.”
JCG – “Why cuz the bread (money) was at her house?… This is what you got to understand, don’t take it wrong but Bre been handling all my money, she been handling my money… She been handling shit for me and cuz, it ain’t just me.”…
KB – “Motherfuckers are posting videos of you and all of that.”
JCG – “Who posts videos of me?”
KB – “This bitch (Breonna Taylor) where she’s been with you, since you ain’t been over at my house… the same day you post a picture I guess she post a video, you knew it because she said what’s up she was in the bed with you, you kissing all over her. This shit is embarrassing.”
16:27 JCG calls KB
KB – “It ain’t even really about Bre because I already know… Motherfuckers done already gave me the blueprint … I know she was fuckin with you…You bounce back and forth between these bitches and I’m not doing none of that, it’s messy… That could have been me bro…”
JCG – “Could have been you because you around a *****?”
KB – “No because I’m around you … You bringin mess on yourself … You think a motherfucker trying to criticize you … You bring shit on yourself like the messiness, its how you move, how you’re so flamboyant, how you putting shit out … I don’t even know what I got myself into … You want me to text your side bitch Rica (Robrica Johnson)? She got gas to get up there to you? … You act like a motherfucker can’t be mad, I got your daughter and you tell me you got money somewhere else, when you’re out here risking your life and your freedom every motherfucking day, like I can call Bre and ask Bre to do anything for my daughter.”
17:20 JCG calls Adrian Walker
AW – “I thought you said they found some money over there?”
JCG – “It was there, it was there, it was there… They didn’t do nothing though that’s the problem … Kenneth said ain’t none of that go on.”
AW – “So they didn’t take none of the money?”
JCG – “Kenneth said that none of that go on. He said Homicide came straight on the scene and they went to packaging Bre and they left.”
AW – “He said they didn’t announce themselves or something?”
JCG – “He sayin they wasn’t, he’s sayin they were just beating so hard.”
AW – “She was in the hallway?”
JCG – “In the hallway *****. That’s just so sad bruh. … “She (Breonna Taylor) gonna turn her back on me cause she love that ***** … that ***** did this shit. At the end of the day if I would have been at that house, Bre would be alive bruh … I don’t shoot at no police.”
17:58 JCG calls KB
KB – “…You had Bre’s car on Valentine’s Day, we weren’t together …
You don’t care about nothing but the money.”
21:27 JCG calls KB
JCG – “How you gonna bond that man out of jail? This shit happened because of this ***** (Kenneth Walker)… he fired shots at the police.”
KB starts arguing with J. Glover over what if the police would have run in her house last night, and he wasn’t going to be there, and she has their daughter…
JCG – “Bre, Bre.”
KB – “I’m Kiera, I’m Kiera.”

@chamblee54 “Dating Kinds Sucks is now on my list of podcasts. I might listen to an episode some day. Between enthusiastically following a dozen podcasts, ten hours a week of joe rogan, listening to music, and the need for recreational silence, there is not a lot of time left.”
Someone asked PG for a list of podcasts. PG quickly found a dozen shows, and moved the file into a folder. The next day, he thought of a dozen more shows to add to the list. PG moved a copy of the list onto his desktop. Shows-that-must-be-went to the top of the list making a handy reference. There are now over a hundred podcasts on the list. Many are not active, and many more are terrible. (All of them ask for donations.) One day, there would have to be a podcast post.
Neo-luddite PG is very happy not to be tethered to a smart phone. PG does his work on a desk top. “Podcast apps” are a mystery to him. If you want to listen to any of these shows, you are smart enough to figure it out. If a podcast app works for you, then you should use one.
You should find a site where you download the mp3. Sometimes, it is the main site for the show. Other times, you have to look. You can type the name of the show into google, and put the letters rss after it. This will usually give you a site where you get the mp3. Right click on the appropriate tab, and click “save file as.” On some shows, you click directly on the download tab, and the file goes into your machine. You sometimes have to play with things to get them to work.
This feature is being written on Tuesday morning. Several of the top shows drop new episodes on Tuesday. We will start with the Tuesday morning shows.
RISK! occupies a special place in the podcast pantheon. A typical episode has three stories, of about twenty minutes each. The stories go from terrific to terrible. One advantage of downloading is the ease of stopping a non-productive story, and skipping ahead to the next segment. RISK! does have an unfortunate tendency towards obnoxious wokeness.
99% Invisible is a show about design, which is supposed to be 99% invisible. Host Roman Mars looks at a wide range of topics, and is seldom boring. A typical story is about twenty minutes long, or about the time of a good ride on the stationary bike.
99% p.i. is a founding member of Radiotopia, a podcast collective. They link to each others shows, and ask for donations. Radiotopia is connected to PRX, which recently had a tacky racism scandal.
The Journal is “… A podcast about money, business and power. … is a co-production from Gimlet Media and The Wall Street Journal.” The Journal is not affected by the notorious WSJ paywall. The Journal appears several times a week, and can be quite enjoyable. Some of the early reporting here on Covid-19 was remarkable. Episodes are usually under twenty minutes.
The Writer’s Voice: New Fiction from The New Yorker is a delight. The author of the print edition story reads it here. Sometimes it is boring, but often is great. The New Yorker: Fiction is the first-of-the-month companion. Here, an author reads a selected story from the archive. There is a discussion of the story with editor Deborah Treisman, that you might want to skip.
Listening to a story uses a different part of the mind than reading text, and can lead to a different perception. The viral sensation of “Cat Person” comes to mind. The #metoo themed tale was the national fascination in December, 2017. PG had listened to author Kristen Roupenian reading the story before the scandal erupted, and did not think the story was a big deal.
Disgraceland appears every other Tuesday. DGL looks at the less pleasant side of famous musicians. Some of these people are real assholes, even if they did make great music. Cocaine and Rhinestones is similar, with a focus on country music. A spin-off of DGL is The 27 Club. Each season looks at the adventures of a famous musician, who died before the twenty eighth birthday.
Levar Burton Reads drops new stories on Tuesday, when it is in season. “Kunta Kinte” reads a story that he loves. Old Gods of Appalachia is another fiction show on podbay. PG discovered OGOA on a boring sunday afternoon recently. It tells horror stories rising from the hollows of East Tennessee. There are many more storyteller podcasts.
This feature is getting into TLDR territory. There is a possibility of more podcast posts in the future. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. Part two and part three are now available.

Crime in the U.S. 2019 has been issued. It is more statistics about crime than you could consume in a lifetime. This blog published reports on these numbers for 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.
Expanded Homicide Data Table 1 is the source of homicide statistics. These numbers are broken down by race, gender, ethnicity, and other factors. (Hispanic or latino, known here as hispanic, is considered an ethnicity, rather than a race. Hispanic people are included in racial breakdowns according to their race.) In 2019, there were 13,927 homicide victims. The gender breakdown is 10,908 male (78%), 2991 female (21%), and 28 unknown (.2%).
Quick facts, from the U.S. Census Bureau, is the source of population numbers. On July 1, 2019, there were 328,239,523 people in the United States. White people were 76.3% (252,087,953), and black people were 13.4% (43,984,096). Hispanic people were 18.5% (60,724,311).
2019 homicide victims break down into white 5,787, black 7,484, other race 434, and unknown race 422. Hispanics are counted separately, and had 2,193 victims. If you divide the number of homicide victims by the population, you get the number of homicide victims per million (vpm). The overall population lost 42.4 vpm. For white people, there were 22.9 vpm. For black people, there were 170.1 vpm. For hispanic people, there were 36.5 vpm.
50.8% of the population is female, according to the census bureau. We will use this 50.8/49.2 breakdown in this next section, even though there are indications that the percent of females is higher for black people. The gender breakdown overall is 10,908 male (78%), 2991 female (21%), and 28 unknown (.2%). The male/female ratio for homicides is, for white people, male 4,026 (69%), and female 1,759 (30%). For black people, it is male 6,446 (86%), and female 1,035 (14 %). For hispanics, it is male 1,768 (80%), and female 425 (19%).
On a per capita basis, overall, males had 67.7 vpm, with females losing 18.0 vpm. White males had 32.4 vpm, with white females losing 13.7 vpm. Black males had 306.9 vpm, with black females losing 47.0 vpm. Hispanic males had 60.9 vpm, with hispanic females losing 14.1 vpm.
The numbers are down from 2018. 2018 had 14,123 homicide victims (w 6,088, b 7,407, h 2,173). 2019 had 13,927 homicide victims (w 5,787, b 7,484, h 2,193). This is with an overall population increase of 1,072,089. Most of the other numbers were lower in 2019.
The Washington Post reports 999 people shot dead by police in 2019. The breakdown: White 404, Black 250, Hispanic 163. (Using these numbers for comparison may be tricky. The FBI groups Hispanics into White/Black/Other as appropriate, while WAPO considers Hispanics to be a separate racial category.) If you divide the WAPO number by the total number of victims, you get a killed-by-police percentage. Overall, this is 999/13,927 = 7.1%. For White people, this is 404/5787 = 6.9%. For Black people, this is 250/7484 = 3.3%. For Hispanics, this is 163/2193 = 7.4%.

I am still trying to figure out the new WordPress thing. The tried and true method is to write text, add pictures, and see what happens.
A key step is adding links. For years, I have made the links in my template. I have the code, with zzz for the url and xxx for the text that will appear in the post. It is a handy system, that has served me well over the years. Will this code work in the new editor?
I was looking through my old posts, with the intention of finding old text to recirculate. I soon got tired of that, and decided to write something fresh. One of the old posts was titled Page 43. It is a writing prompt. Take a book, go to page 43, and write about the first sentence. The book for today’s exercise is Skinny Legs and All, by Tom Robbins.
“Hand in hand, she short, he tall, she bouncy, he lame, they walked along the stream.” Boomer Petway and his bride, Ellen Cherry Charles Petway, were walking towards a cave. They were going to have a picnic lunch, after eating dessert first. They brought with them a can of beans, and a silver dessert spoon. The spoon was probably not involved in the pre-meal festivities. Once they commence to celebrating their young marriage, Ellen Cherry feels the need to cry out Jezebel.
“Hand’ in hand’, she short’, he tall’, she bounc,’-y, he’ lame, they’ walked a’long the’ stream.” The sentence has an iambic beat. The first ten beats would make a great line for a poem. Not only does it score high on the meter meter, but it ends in EE. This vowel sound is very common at the end of words. Rhyme zone has 1518 results the EE sound.
Getting back to the new editor, this is causing brain damage. If you go to the menu, and select “All Posts,” you will see a list of the most recent posts. Under each post, you can choose “Edit,” which is pretty obvious. Next to that is “Classic Editor.” Apparently, I can start the post in the new window, close it, and finish it using the classic editor. However, WordPress is making noise about dumping the classic editor altogether, so it would be better to learn the new system. It is a bit of a challenge.
The first step is to add a link, to see if that works. The old code for links works here. The only difference between the old code, and the new, is about twenty characters added onto the new code. Eventually, I can update the template, but for now the old code can be recycled. That can be a real problem when repeating an old post.
The next step is to add pictures. This is absolutely essential to the look of chamblee54. If you google the question, you will get some conflicting answers. Finally, I clicked on the blue plus sign, which lets you add a block. This is, after all, called the block editor. There appear to be some toys to play with, after I get used to this thing.
Before I reinvent chamblee54, I need to get this learning curve post up. If you go into the “Media” blocks, you will see something called “Stacked.” This will enable you to download pictures. The code looks a bit different. It is tougher to work with.
It was looking good for a while. Maybe I should have just inserted the text, and gone on. Instead, I kept pushing buttons, and screwed something up. The pictures are now set off to the right of the border by about 24 pixels, and rub over the lists of details beside the picture space. I can’t tell if it was like that all along, or if I put it there by accident. I am going to start another post, and see if it works better this time. I may wind up going with the classic editor anyway.
One more try with the pictures was the correct move. I was pushing this and that button, and trumped everything up. The text works well, give or take a tweak or two. This post is going to go on the internet, and maybe somebody will read it.
Pictures today are from The Library of Congress. These pictures that were edited in 2016. Chamblee54 has written about Skinny Legs and All before. (one two three)