2 double shootings Sunday bring end to violent month

Baltimore Sun ^ | 6-1-2015 | Colin Campbell

[tcrlaf]

hattered glass from the windows of a silver minivan and dozens of police evidence markers littered a West Baltimore street where police said at least two men were shot in a hail of bullets, the second double shooting in the city Sunday..

The shooting brought to an end one of the most violent months the city has seen in decades, with 43 people killed and 108 people injured in May alone. More people have been shot to death this month than any month since August 1972, when 45 people were killed.

[tcrlaf]

It appears that Black Lives in Baltimore don't matter to blacks in Baltimore.

Hopey-Changey, Baltimore. This IS what you keep voting for, after all.

[Sarah Barracuda]

Actually black lives do matter in Baltimore, as long as the one with the gun is a cop, preferably a white cop..then they “care” but when its blacks killing blacks its YAWN!!! Baltimore is the progressive utopia, this is the life they wanted, no cops enforcing the law, actually Im shocked it was only 43 killed Im surprised it wasn’t more than 100

[fieldmarshaldj]

"More people have been shot to death this month than any month since August 1972, when 45 people were killed."

There's about 600,000 people in Baltimore today. In 1972, there was 900,000. Which means the murder rate is roughly 33% higher than in 1972.

[fieldmarshaldj]

It’s over 150 when you count killed and wounded.

[MediaMole]

Add to that the improvement in emergency medicine between 1972 and 2015. Many people who live today would have died in 1972.

[PROCON]

Woo-Hoo, come on Baltimore, June 2015 is tomorrow.

You can break another record!

[Tennessee Nana]

it was more than 100..

it was 151..

they didn’t all die...

[allendale]

When cops are not proactive, this is exactly what happens. Drugs, alcohol, armed young males and hot weather are a volatile mix. Good street cops know how to make timely interventions if allowed. They won’t if they know their backs are not covered.

[Dr. Pritchett]

I’m pulling for them to break the record!

(They’re just doing the job that American cops won’t do).

[Repeal The 17th]

Historical Events for August 1972 - http://www.historyorb.com/events/date/1972/august - 1st - 1st article exposing Watergate scandal 1st - Nate Colbert of SD Padres hits record tying 5 HRs in a double header 2nd - Gold hits record $70 an ounce in London 3rd - British premier Edward Heath proclaims emergency crisis due to dock strike 3rd - Chozen-ji/Intl Zen Dojo founded by Omori Sogen Roshi, in Hawaii 3rd - U.S. Senate ratifies the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty. 4th - Arthur Bremer jailed for 63 years for shooting Alabama Gov Wallace 5th - Moody Blues release "Nights in White Satin" 5th - Uganda president Idi Amin throws out all 80,000 Asians 5th - Detroit shortstop Ed Brinkman errors ends record streak of 72 games & 331 total chances without a miscue 6th - Garry Player wins PGA golf tournament 6th - Hank Aaron hits 660th & 661st HRs for Braves (record for 1 team) 6th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Knoxville Ladies Golf Classic 7th - Hall of Fame inducts Berra, Sandy Koufax, Lefty Gomez & Early Wynn 8th - NY Yanks sign 30-year lease to play in remodeled Yankee Stadium 9th - Rockwell receives NASA contract to construct Space Shuttle 9th - Widespread rioting in Northern Ireland on the anniversary of the introduction of Internment 10th - 1 million kg meteorite grazes atmosphere above Canada 10th - Paul & Linda McCartney are arrested in Sweden on drug possession 11th - "Cheech & Chong Day" in San Antonio Texas 11th - Two IRA members are killed when a bomb they were transporting exploded prematurely 12th - "Funny Thing Happened..." closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 156 perfs 12th - "Oh! Calcutta!" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 1316 performances 12th - Ian & Greg Chappell both scores centuries in same Test Cricket innings 12th - Last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam 13th - Dutch KRO-TV transmits 440th & last episode of "Bonanza" 13th - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Pabst Ladies Golf Classic 14th - 2 British soldiers are killed by an IRA booby trap bomb in Belfast 14th - A Catholic civilian is shot dead during an IRA attack on a British Army patrol in Belfast 16th - 54th PGA Championship: Gary Player shoots a 281 at Oakland Hills Mich 16th - Morocco King Hassan II's B727 shot at 16th - Philip Potter appointed sect-gen of World council of Churches 16th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 17th - Phillies Steve Carlton wins his 15th straight game 18th - Police fine Paul & Linda McCartney ś800 in Sweden cannabis possession 20th - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Southgate Ladies Golf Open 20th - USSR performs underground nuclear test 21st - 1st hot air balloon flight over Alps 21st - British dock strike ends 21st - Grace Slick maced by police when a band official called cops, pigs 21st - Republican convention opens in Miami Beach 21st - US orbiting astronomy observatory Copernicus launched 22nd - Rhodesia is expelled by the International Olympic Committee for its racist policies. 22nd - IRA bomb explodes prematurely - 9 people, are killed in the explosion 23rd - Republican convention (Miami Beach, Fla) renominates VP Agnew 23rd - Chicago's Dick Allen is 4th to homer into Comiskey Park's center field bleachers 23rd - 4 civilians and 1 British soldier are injured in shooting incidents in North Ireland 24th - 8th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 2-1 24th - Dennis Amiss scores 1st one-day int century, 103 v Australia 24th - Gordie Howe & Jean Beliveau inducted in Hockey Hall of Fame 26th - 20th Olympic games open at Munich German FR 26th - Leo Durocher replaces Harry Walker as manager of Astros 26th - NY Cosmos beat St Louis Stars, 2-1 to win NASL championship 26th - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR 27th - Sandra Haynie wins LPGA National Jewish Hospital Golf Open 27th - US bombs Haiphong, North Vietnam 28th - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR 29th - SF Giant Jim Barr retires 1st 20 batters he faces 30th - John Lennon & Yoko Ono perform at Madison Square Garden

[fieldmarshaldj]

Add to that, you might recall NYC during the Dinkins regime (1990-93), the city murder rate hit about 2,000 per year (about 160+ per month). That was horrible (and one big reason Rudy was able to win in 1993), but consider that even with those numbers, the murder rate was still LOWER than Baltimore’s is now.

NYC had 7.3 million people in 1990 and those 2k murders in a year. Baltimore has just 600k (1/12th that of NYC then) today, and if the murder rate holds up, may get to 400-500 dead by the end of this year (and we haven’t hit the summer yet when it may explode). A murder rate of 1 per 3,650 vs. 1 per 1,200. That means NYC would’ve had to achieve a rate of 6,000+ murders per year to equal Baltimore’s at present.

[Dilbert San Diego]

They are getting what they wished for. They are so angry about alleged police brutality, that they wished they didn’t have to deal with police at all. They are getting to see what life is like without police. I hope some lessons are learned and taken to heart.

Maybe we can have Eric Holders conversation about race. We can ask why there is so much black on black violence in a city in which blacks are in charge of the power structure. By definition there is no racism there since blacks are in charge.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Now it’s the police who protest in Baltimore
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295497/posts

Bloodshed Continues; Baltimore Reaches Another Deadly Milestone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3295471/posts

[Dilbert San Diego]

Brings back memories of 1972. I remember when Nate Colbert hit 5 home runs in a doubleheader. Reminds me of the days when baseball still played double headers. They are rare now unless they are rescheduling to make up for a rainout.

[dp0622]

maybe this will wake up some people’s eyes to what mayhem these neighborhoods really are.
150 dead or injured is a disastrous number for a month.

[PROCON]

I hope some lessons are learned and taken to heart.

Me too, but time will tell.

I'm not optimistic.

[pepsionice]

Hot weather is the odd factor in this mix. I noticed this factor in DC when I lived around the region for 3.5 years. If you get a cold front with freezing temperatures for a week....there’s never a murder or shooting. You get temperatures up to around 95 degrees, and you might see five murders in one single week, and another dozen assaults.

[umgud]

Blacks in Baltimore are proving they aren’t capable of self rule.

[onyx]

Baltimore has the government they voted for.

Now they have the Police Deptment they trashed.

[JohnBrowdie]

Let them kill each other. Sooner or later, this problem fixes itself.