Posted on 05/26/2015 10:47:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Earlier today we noted the fact that the city of Cleveland is, at least for now, managing to keep things mostly peaceful in the streets amid tensions between police and the community. That’s a very positive sign, and here’s to hoping they can maintain things on an even keel. But in the meantime, Baltimore has been taking a very different path. Even after the initial wave of riots receded, violence across the district has been on the rise. That trend hit a new high water mark over the holiday weekend leaving a horrific death toll in its wake.
Police say 28 people were shot, 9 of them killed over this weekend, adding to the record-breaking violence.
The shooting didn’t stop on Monday night after a 9-year-old boy and another man were both injured by gun fire in the 2900 block of Arunah Avenue. Police say the child was shot in the leg and another man suffered a graze wound to the head.
From one district to the next leaving 26 people shot and 9 dead. Councilmember Mary Pat Clarke links the violence to a city still reeling from weeks of unrest.
“It was an earthquake kind of time and i think we’re still dealing with the aftershock,” she says.
Those nine dead brought Baltimore’s violent crime death toll to 35 just for the month of May, one of the bloodiest months in modern history. And it’s not as if they’re filling up the jails. In fact, for the latest round of bloodshed there isn’t even a single suspect under arrest.
WJZ media partner The Baltimore Sun reports 35 people have been killed so far in May making it the deadliest month in Baltimore since December of 1999. Some say the 3-day surge of violence may be a sign of a police department stretched too thin…
Since the beginning of the year, 108 people have died due to violence in the city. So far none of the victims have been identified and no arrests have been made. If you have information on any of these shootings you’re urged to contact police.
The list of detailed crime reports in that article should have anyone rightly horrified. But all of this crime stands in stark contrast to the latest bone of contention which is sparking even more puzzling protests. Plans have been revealed for a new youth jail and the residents are unhappy.
Traffic on major Baltimore roadways was stopped early Tuesday as a group of demonstrators protested the state’s funding of a youth jail project in the city by creating gridlock amid the morning rush.
Tweets from the account of Pastor Jamal Bryant indicated roads — including Interstate 395 — were being blocked in protest of a juvenile jail that was recently funded by the state. The timing of the gridlock fell at the height of the morning commute after a holiday weekend…
State officials approved plans earlier this month to build a $30 million, 60-bed jail to house Baltimore teenagers charged as adults a step to address years of concern about the practice of housing young city defendants alongside adults.
The U.S. Justice Department has said the state-run Baltimore City Detention Center has been violating the law by keeping the youths in the same facility as grown-ups, where teens often are secluded and do not receive school or other services while incarcerated.
At this point it’s becoming impossible to figure out exactly what it is that the protesters want to see changed. Previously the focus was on the relationship between the cops and the primarily minority residents of the Western district. Complaints that the police are too aggressive have dominated the news for months. But when the cops seem a bit more tentative, the crime rate goes up. Those dozens of dead or severely wounded Baltimore citizens who have turned up this month were not gunned down by the cops. This is the work of criminals. If the protesters would like to feel more safe on the streets of their city, the cops need to find the perpetrators and lock them up.
But even with that premise – which should be a given in all but the most fever swamp imaginations – they are protesting the construction of the new jail and saying that the city just has plans to lock up a lot more black people, in the words of one protester. What, at this point, are the police supposed to be doing? This is a complex problem and we seem to lack any leaders (both on the streets and in City Hall) who are capable of separating out the challenges and dealing with them in a productive fashion. For now, this simply looks like chaos.
Time to pull out of Baltimore.
Look up in dictionary:
Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.
1. See Baltimore Police Department for best example of this curse
Still blaming what happened for these shootings? “Lets show the cops and kill each other!!”
You can thank Mayor Mouth Breather and her racist accomplices at the DA and DOJ.
You must have been bounced down the street on the pavement on your head as an infant, and you're still dealing with the after-trauma.
Cause, meet effect.
I thought Al Sharpton fixed things in Baltimore?
#BlackonBlackDontMatter
New York City has a population of 8,500,000 people - which is 13.5 times that of Baltimore. Yet they get about 25 homicides a month. And NYC is seeing even that as a crime wave.
Put another way, NYC sees a homicide for every 340,000 people each month. While Baltimore is seeing a homicide for every 17,800 people, making it 19 times as likely you will get murdered in Baltimore, as opposed to NYC.
By the way, all of this is not to make the case that NYC is necessarily a safe place to be but to demonstrate that Baltimore is THIRD WORLD dangerous. We are talking "Banana Republic" dangerous here.
Who lives there in large numbers? Who’s rioting? Who lives in Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit, Ferguson, and Oakland in large numbers where guns are just about outlawed yet they still have them? What do they all have in common? There’s your answer. If a white boy were killed by a black cop you wouldn’t hear a peep because we know they’re not going to pay us a dime. Why that white boy held up a store and stole some Swisher Sweet, was high as a kite and he didn’t move when the black officer told him to. Then the white guy reaches for his gun to kill him and the officer wrestled it out of his hands and shot him with it. Why that white kid was going to kill that police officer if he got his gun out of his holster.
That crazy cracka got what he deserved.
Many years ago I worked an armed security position guarding the home renovation project in Cherry Hill. We always hoped for cold or rain to keep people off the streets. With summer approaching the murder rate is likely to rise with the temperatures .
Now let me see if I have this right.
There's no guidance or discipline in the home. The family situation is so unstable, 'Junior' doesn't even know where or to whom to send a Father's Day card. Junior gets dumped into the education system where he is socially promoted because the overwhelmed school district can't deal with the undisciplined whelp. Junior's major formative influences are 'gangsta' rap videos and a corresponding peer group of gangsta wannabes. At age 18, Junior is turned loose on society carrying a bad attitude, a broken compass, little respect for authority, and maybe even a gun. Junior then gets himself in big trouble with the law and meets dire consequences.
And the situation diagnosis is that the police need more training and understanding?
It is precisely as depicted in the five seasons of The Wire
If you carefully watch all five seasons you will understand the layer on layer of the failure of civilized society in Baltimore. The Wire is perhaps the best TV series ever produced. If not best, alt least in the top 5.
The main character is Baltimore city
Air conditioning lowers the threat of unrest significantly as well.
Want a prime threat scenarion for a terrorist attack? Wait for a heat wave, with hot and sunny days projected for 5 days to a week out. Then target electrical infrastructure.
Now that Detroit has finally restructured its debt obligations through bankruptcy and finally will build the Gordon "Gordie" Howe International Bridge to increase cross-border trade between Detroit and Windsor, ON, I expect Detroit to finally revive economically, now as a transshipment point for goods trade between the USA and Canada. Meanwhile, Baltimore is about to become a gigantic financial sinkhole for the state of Maryland that could ruin that state's finances.
“In fact, for the latest round of bloodshed there isn’t even a single suspect under arrest.”
Gee golly...I wonder why. LOL
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