jessie has drawn upon to produce a drop in crime here unlike any other in the state. the county's total crime rate just dropped to the lowest level since maryland first began to compile the numbers back in the mid-70s. by taking a crime prevention method to kids in the backyard, there is hope the trend will continue. >> most of the students, by the time they leave here, they are smiling, happy, laughing. >> in hartford county, jeff hager, abc "2 news." >> sheriff's deputies take mobile crime prevention trailer into neighborhoods in the wake of violent crimes or shootings to relieve some of the tension there. >> >> baltimore county police looking for more potential victims of a man accused of having sexual relationships with underage boys. police say 22-year-old brandon used a fake facebook profile to make county with two under age boys, one 13, the other 14. >> is >> pools of water on the floor and old packing equipment at one colorado farm are likely to blame for the lysteria breakout. >> >> and schools were closed today near a wild animal park in eastern ohio after

so you all tell me, do you all believe at all or are you sure in your heart of hearts that jessie's mother hashing to do with her disappearance? >> i feel comfortable saying that. i just don't think she's capable of that, to do anything to her child. i just can't see that. i think the baby -- she was real friendly. she knew a lot of people in that complex. i know there's so many registered sex offenders and predators in that area, in the immediate area, i found out. and her, i just -- in my heart, i don't feel that. >> do you all think this possibly, and josie, i'll ask you this, it possibly even hurts the investigation in some way because people that don't know, your sister does have a history, jessie's mother did do some time for child abuse. and there is a history there. but do you think that clouds the investigation or that's an important part of the investigation? >> well, it's definitely an important part, but i believe it is clouding the investigation because i think they're focusing too long on jherrese and i'm hoping they're not just focusing on her and letting other things go because

it was all based on jessie's testimony to the police, most of which has never been made public becausey didn't have the tapes or didn't want to release them at the time. >> right. >> and he said first of all it all happened in the morning, then it happened in the afternoon. >> right. >> then finally he washed up at a time that suited the timing of the deaths. i mean, this is scandalous, isn't it? jason, why do you think jessie was doing this? >> well -- >> because if he hadn't, i don't think any of you would have gone to prison, would you? >> the closest thing i can come to explain that in my mind is like the schoolyard bully who gets the kid to cry uncle under duress. the bully knows he's not the other kid's uncle and the kid knows the bully is not his uncle but he puts him under so much pressure and pain, okay, uncle, let me loose. >> do you hate jessie? do you blame him? >> no. not at all. >> he's mentally handicapped. it's not his fault. >> he's a victim as well? >> exactly. he didn't choose to be born that way. >> some members of the boys' families supported you. others to this da

jessie stanshaw. i live directly across the street from the development. i have lived there since 1985. it has had the same character the whole time, five small cottages at the end of a dead- and alley. i have two brief points to make regarding this zoning, and the practical work ability of a product of this size at the end of a one lane debt and valley. -- dead-end alley. there is a lot of concern around proper zoning. i hope the commission can bring clarity to the issue. the initial notice of the building permit application said the site was owned s rh-1 in a 40-x district. in the discretionary review, the planning department is saying it is a 65-a. it seems nobody has confidence in the zoning for the project site. anything you can do to help clarify that would be much appreciated. neighbors have experienced trouble in trying to determine how paul the proposed building will be. the original notice of a building permit applications said the building would be 30 feet tall, revised notice that the building would be 30 feet tall. the planning department is now saying the building will be 27 feet

in jessie's case one thing is she's gotten a lot of local coverage for herself but the national coverage has not been there. since she's been gone senifor s many days, we don't know where she is. everybody needs to know that she is missing. >> how do you playou explain? it's hard to say this, we don't value in some way little minority children the same as a little white baby? >> well, i mean, there are undercurrents of, you know, bias there, clearly bias does exist. i think we'd be fooling ourselves to act as though race does not play a factor in our nation. it does. and the fact that children that are not of color get more coverage that they're talked about more, there's a reason for that and, yes, race is a reason. >> are we not talking about this -- even me getting that question out was almost uncomfortable for me. are we uncomfortable to face that bias and what we may have and just hate to admit it? do we have to have that conversation, is that the only way it will change? >> we've got to talk about it. we need to talk about it more, but it needs to continue. to add to it, t.j., not only