Ronald J. Leach

Baltimore Blue and Freddie Gray (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

The main characters in our story, Jay Allan Scripps and Rowena Moore, have connected after many years after a mysterious accident. He is hiding from his past, while she leads a reclusive existence. They are motivated by a perhaps misguided need to improve their world. Their unique use of guns forms helps save lives in a neglected area of the city.

"Baltimore Blue and Freddie Gray" is a work of fiction set in Baltimore during the eventful time of the demonstrations and riots after the funeral of Freddie Gray in April, 2015. The riots destroyed stores and buildings and other economic disasters affected tax revenues, increasing the pressure on the already strapped city budget.

Not surprisingly, the national and international coverage also affected the housing market in Baltimore, and perhaps more importantly, the city's reputation. Earlier that month, I had a conversation with a clerk in a shop in Belgrade, Serbia where he asked me where I was from and asked me about crime and violence in Baltimore. All he knew about Baltimore he learned from the television shows, Homicide and The Wire. Wonder what our conversation might be like if it took place now.

The riots also caused the downfall of a rising political star, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, who later announced that she would not run for re-election. She was head of the national Council of Mayors and clearly headed for higher office.

The book also contains an account of the fascinating legal issues raised by the trials of six police officers and whether they can be forced to testify in each other's trials. Stay tuned for updates as the six interconnected trials progress.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ronald J. Leach
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798224860135
• Artikelnr.: 69842934

Autorenporträt

About the Author

I recently retired from being a professor of computer science at Howard University for over 25 years, with 9 of those years as a department chair. (I was a math professor for 16 years before that.) While I was department chair, we sent more students to work at Microsoft in the 2004-5 academic year than any other college or university in the United States. We also established a graduate certificate program in computer security, which became the largest certificate program at the university. I had major responsibility for working with technical personnel to keep our department's hundreds of computers functional and virus-free, while providing email service to several hundred users. We had to withstand constant hacker attacks and we learned how to reduce the vulnerability of our computer systems.

As a scholar/researcher, I studied complex computer systems and their behavior when attacked or faced with heavy, unexpected loads. I wrote five books on computing, from particular programming languages, to the internal structure of sophisticated operating systems, to the development and efficient creation of highly complex applications. My long-term experience with computers (I had my first computer programming course in 1964) has helped me understand the nature of many of the computer attacks by potential identity thieves and, I hope, be able to explain them and how to defend against them, to a general audience of non-specialists. More than 5,000 people have attended my lectures on identity theft; many others have seen them on closed-circuit television.

I have written more than twenty books, and more than 120 technical articles, most of which are in technical areas.

My interests in data storage and access meshed well with my genealogical interests when I wrote the Genealogy Technology column of the Maryland Genealogical Society Journal for several years. I was the editor or co-editor of that society's journal for many years.