On Saturday, Edward Albert Batson, 65, was arrested, for his 159th charge in Nashville – and for the 66th time, the charge was dismissed. Are we so overcrowded that we are just dismissing minor charges, sometimes before they even get past intake/holding? It seems if you have 49 charges for public intoxication – at some point should you stop making the arrests, or petition the court for mandated rehab? Instead Nashville is just turning them back onto the street, without help or supervision, just charges dismissed. 159 charges in…
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East Nashville Speed Challenge(r) (w/Video)
Dear neighbor on Montgomery Ave: if this is you, can you stop? We understand you love your new car, which appears to be a Challenger, however there are human beings and animals that live here, and if you continue this, someone’s going to get hurt. It’s dangerous, and we’re not impressed. We understand that (according to your neighbors) you just graduated, and you think the world now belongs to you, along with your new car with paper drive-out tags – but in fact, you share this world, and this street…