Posted on 08/04/2015 12:23:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ten federal agents will join the Baltimore police homicide unit, commanders announced Sunday, after the city followed its deadliest month in decades with a night in which 10 people were shot — seven of them in one incident.
Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the addition of the special agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Secret Service represent a "flipping of the script of sorts."
"That's a bit unusual because local police departments — and Baltimore is no different — historically send detectives to federal law enforcement agencies to embed with their long-term investigations," he said.
The department's homicide clearance rate is 36 percent. Davis said the agents will use federal resources to help homicide detectives solve killings.
A total of 191 people have been killed in Baltimore in 2015. Forty-five people were killed in July alone, matching the all-time monthly high from 1972, when the city had 275,000 more residents. Forty-two people were killed in May, the month after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody sparked riots.
The violence this year is in some ways unprecedented: No previous year has had two months with more than 40 killings, and the 116 killed from May to July is a three-month high in data kept since 1970.
Davis said officers have confiscated about 20 percent more guns on the street this year than at this point last year. Police believe people are arming themselves amid an "atmosphere of uncertainty" after April's unrest.
"Given where we are now in Baltimore, we need to win tomorrow," Davis said. "We need to win Tuesday, then we need to win Wednesday.
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More government jobs and overtime!
The more the government screws up, the more it gets!
The government is the Peter Principle on steroids!
Where’s the Maryland State Police?
Demoralize local police.
Bring in the Feds.
Obama federalization of local police 1-2-3.
NOT the fedgubs job!
I sort of hope the feds do something really stupid. But it wont matter. We all know the agenda.
Somebody should congratulate the mayor. She's created a crime spree the whole freaking country is going to have to have to help pay for cleaning up.
RE: NOT the fedgubs job!
Next thing you know, they’ll be bringing in the army...
Soon all across the land....obamalaw.
Wwwwweeeeellllllllll, lookey there...who is doing all the kill’n...
(Most interesting quote of the day: “Black Lives Also Have To Matter To Black People” - Rep. Elijah Cummings)
One bite at a time...
The Left has learned they can’t just up and assert total control (on near any subject), they have to facilitate, aid, extend, regulate, etc until they are in practical but not by-definition control. That way opponents can’t effectively object, having to explain why what isn’t is by all practical measures - wasting time & resources, while the Left keeps plowing ahead, obfuscating along the way.
da mayor of bawlmer dont want no state po-lice in her city.
state police is run by da cracker republican governor.
Hope and Change.
This plays right into the feds plans...the federal take over of local PDs.
And some people say that democrats can't create jobs!
Well Baltimore mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake just proved them wrong.
More work for criminals, more work for politicians, more work for the Feds.
#thuglivesdontmatter
The Obama feds are there to get cops, make no mistake about that.
No street cop in his right mind will not allow any fed to get near him while at work.
“a Scorpion wants to cross the river, so he asks a Frog to carry him across the river on its back. The Frog declines, pointing out that the Scorpion is poisonous, and will kill the Frog. The Scorpion counters that the Frog will be in no danger, because if the Scorpion stings the Frog during the watery journey, both will perish. Buying this logic, the Frog agrees, allowing the Scorpion onto its back, and swims across the river. Only when they reach the middle of the river, the Scorpion stings the Frog. Shocked and dying, the Frog declares “Why? You’ve killed us both!” To which the now drowning Scorpion retorts: “Because I’m a Scorpion.” And they both die.
The moral to this tale: “One’s nature cannot be changed.”
Yes, because that is what the feds do.
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