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It takes incredible courage for a victim of domestic violence to apply for a protective order. Victims must make their way to the courthouse, often while they are still experiencing the effects of their abuse. At the courthouse, they must write a description of how they were abused, and then describe their abuse again to a judge, often in front of a courtroom filled with strangers. If the judge determines that there has been abuse, the judge will issue a temporary protective order that must be served by a law enforcement officer on the alleged abuser.

I had to read Bill Krehbrink's letter twice to figure out that he was in favor of George Zimmerman's actions in Florida ("'Stand your ground' makes Florida residents safer," March 26). He seems very concerned that Mr. Zimmerman not even be tried because he is "innocent until proven guilty. " Does he not understand that Trayvon Martin was considered "guilty until proven innocent"? Florida's laws certainly don't make it safer for young blacks wearing hoodies and carrying Skittles.

After the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the most frequently heard forecast was: "This changes everything. " Americans would live in constant fear of the next attack, many pundits predicted. The desire for safety would spawn a security state that would trample constitutional freedoms. The economy would take a long-term hit. American life would never be the same. Most of those dire predictions didn't come true, of course. The U.S. economy rebounded quickly. Civil liberties came under stress, but fears of a surveillance state weren't realized.

Gov. Martin O'Malley, 1999-2007 "My advice to anyone who does the job of mayor, whether they do that job in Baltimore, Boston or any city in the world, is this: Make your city a cleaner city, a safer city and a city that becomes a better place for kids to grow up. Where businesses know they can invest their dollars and their hard work will be returned. "If you make a city cleaner, safer and a better place for kids, the people of the city start to do the rest of the work themselves.

Acquired immune deficiency syndrome has permanently changed the way people think about sex. Therefore, regardless of the contraceptive method a person prefers, anyone not in a mutually monogamous relationship should exercise extreme caution -- not only in choosing partners but during sex itself.Latex condoms offer good protection against sexually transmitted diseases. "But condoms reduce -- rather than negate -- the risks," says Dr. Charles Hammond, the head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, N.C."

WHEN A 6-year-old child is able to fire a handgun and shoot his classmate, as happened recently in Michigan, Americans everywhere should be asking themselves not just "why did this happen?" but also "what can we do to reduce the chance that this ever happens again?" In Maryland, at least, there is a ready answer. Hearings are scheduled today in the state Senate on a bill that would require new handguns sold in Maryland after June 1, 2003, to be designed so that unauthorized users, like young children, can't operate them.

Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler endorsed fellow Democrat Kevin Kamenetz for Baltimore County executive on Wednesday, saying the councilman's support for "innovative crime-fighting technology" had made the county safer. The two attorneys, both former prosecutors, discussed crime prevention and video surveillance of shopping centers at a press conference near Towson Town Center. As a member of the Baltimore County Council, Kamenetz sponsored legislation that requires major shopping centers to install video devices.

It could be the perfect SUV, getting a fuel-efficient 36 miles to the gallon and sporting enough safety devices to cut driving fatalities nationwide by 2,900 a year. There's just one drawback to the Guardian XSE - it can't be found in showrooms anywhere. The concept car design was unveiled yesterday by the Union of Concerned Scientists and the Center for Auto Safety at press conferences in Baltimore, Philadelphia and Los Angeles. Their engineers call the Guardian a blueprint to show auto manufacturers how to produce sport utility vehicles that are less dangerous and friendlier to the environment.

WASHINGTON -- America is becoming a safer place to live, according to an alliance of consumer groups.An annual comprehensive report on health and safety showed deaths are down from car wrecks and home accidents, people are smoking fewer cigarettes and drinking less alcohol, more folks are buckling their seat belts, and more Americansare trying to eat healthier foods."

On Sunday, a Sun editorial unfairly criticized the Baltimore Police Department for losing its focus on targeting the city's most violent criminals. I can assure residents that since I was appointed commissioner some 180 days ago, the senior leadership team of the BPD has been implementing strategies to complement our already razor-sharp focus on violent crime. There's no question our strategy includes a stronger presence of police in violence-prone areas to allow people to feel safer in their neighborhoods.

Exactly what makes Del. Jolene Ivey believe that issuing a license to illegal immigrants in Maryland will guarantee that "they have car insurance" or that "they know not to flee when they're getting pulled over or in an accident?" ("Senate approves two-tier licenses," March 26). Certainly it won't. They don't even have to be able to read, speak or write English. The state must provide an interpreter to enable them to pass the license test. Is that interpreter going to ride with them forever to interpret signs or a law enforcement officer's direction?

Commentator Liz Ryan claims that "the current system of law enforcement in schools doesn't work and needs an overhaul" ("More cops in schools isn't the solution," March 1). I do not concur. While compelled to make spending reductions in other parts of the county budget, one area where I authorized an increase was in the police department budget to increase the number of school resource officers in country middle schools. Eleven of the 19 middle schools currently have SROs, and legislation I recommended this year to the General Assembly would allow slot machine gambling proceeds to be used to increase that number as well as enhance mental health initiatives.

Carl H. Russell cites the recent murder of a woman by her ex-boyfriend as evidence that firearms are necessary for protection ("Murder makes the case for firearms in the home," Feb. 14). One could say the same of any murder where the victim did not have a firearm. Yet it is a false argument because it ignores all the homicides that take place not because people don't have guns but because they do. In an ideal world we would confine the possession of firearms solely to potential victims, while withholding them from potential killers.

Here's a tweet from @AP:  AP PHOTO: Petraeus biographer Broadwell, whom FBI probe finds carried on affair with CIA chief, officials say Whom , of course, should be who ; the pronoun is the subject of the clause in which carried on  is the phrasal verb: "FBI probe finds [that] she carried on an affair with CIA chief," to use the old reliable pronoun-substitution method of working the syntax out.  Sentences like this with interpolated attribution and and understood that  are often the occasion for journalists, and civilians as well, to mistake a subject for an object.

More than 70,000 Maryland women become victims of domestic violence each year, but only a fraction of these women seek protective orders from our state's courts. If we want to do more to protect women, we need to make it easier and safer for them to get such orders. Alarmingly, sometimes women actually put themselves at risk just by going to court. Consider the case of a Montgomery County resident whose estranged boyfriend had repeatedly beaten and threatened her. When this woman finished her court hearing and had received her protective order, she began walking to her car alone.

While praising the toy industry for making safer products, consumer safety advocates warned yesterday that holiday shoppers should still be on the lookout for toys that can seriously injure children.The federal Child Safety Protection Act of 1994, which took effect this year, imposed tougher labeling requirements for toys and raised the minimum size of small balls that could be sold for preschoolers' toys."Don't assume all toys are safe," warned Tom Fendley of the California Public Interest Research Group.

Please ask letter writer Sen. Jim Rosapepe where I can buy the fantasy rose-colored glasses he wears ("U.S. stronger, safer under President Obama," Oct. 27). His claims that President Barack Obama has made the world and the economy better than four years ago by "hard power, soft power, and smart power" is just not true. By any measure, the economy is a lot worse than four years ago. Records have been set for food stamp recipients while around 23 million Americans are unemployed, not to mention that President Obama is borrowing 40 cents on very dollar the government spends (a social injustice at the highest level)