Can You Prevent a Murder?
Can you prevent a murder? It's a question that's meant to be both provocative and meaningful. Can we , as a community, put an end to the most heinous of crimes? Could we , with more policing, stricter laws, or greater transparency stop a criminal from taking a life? It's also an issue that former Baltimore City Homicide detective Stephen Tabeling has much to say about. Lieutenant Tabeling is a cop who investigated some of the most notorious murders in Baltimore throughout the tumultuous and violent decade of the 1970s. He is also another law enforcement expert who has partnered with SpotCrime to tackle the topic that encompasses everything we do : how to make the communities we serve safer. His take on the vexing question of what can be done, if anything to prevent the violent taking of a life, doesn't hew to the popular philosophy of beefing up police departments and building more prisons. In fact, in his book 'You Can't Stop Murder', Tabelin