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EMPOWERED THUGS RULE: Baltimore Shootings Spike 70%, Murder Rate Up 42%
Clash Daily ^ | May 22, 2015 | Doug Giles

Posted on 05/23/2015 2:22:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, I wonder why this would happen? Don’t expect this to get better anytime soon.

BALTIMORE – Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the city’s recent spike in violence “disheartening” Thursday as police work to address a dramatic increase in homicides and nonfatal shootings.

“It’s extremely frustrating,” the mayor told reporters at a news conference. “It is disheartening, but I am still resolved to continue to reduce violent crime in our city.”

Rawlings-Blake said the city’s faced spikes in crimes in the past and police have been able to successfully reverse them. She said she’s “confident” police do so will again.

The city’s had 98 homicides so far this year, which is 42 percent higher than over the same period in 2014. Nonfatal shootings are up more than 70 percent with at least 19 people shot on Tuesday and Wednesday.


TOPICS: Conspiracy; Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: baltimore; baltimoremurders; baltimoreshooting; baltimoreshootings; baltimoreviolence; crime; lawenforcement; maryland; racism; thugculture
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To: 353FMG

“Put Democrats in charge anywhere, and SHIT WILL HAPPEN for sure.”

I think you mean: “BAD SHIT WILL HAPPEN for sure”.


21 posted on 05/23/2015 2:53:59 PM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: lee martell

it passed the sell by date....


22 posted on 05/23/2015 2:57:09 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

Call in sick; watch a lot of TV; ‘accidentally’ turn the wrong way to a call; turn the car in over and over due to it not being perfect; fill out a lot of reports, or the same report over and over; basically being a Democrat on the job.


23 posted on 05/23/2015 3:00:20 PM PDT by Darteaus94025 (Can't have a Liberal without a Lie)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

There are those who still insist that the behavior we are seeing is merely a cultural problem.


24 posted on 05/23/2015 3:18:11 PM PDT by ComputerGuy (Spend a week in a metropolitan police cruiser and you'll see who's really out of control.)
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To: DanZ
What an ODD comment - All police forces are Unionized - All are Democrat voting blocks - Especially in the North East.

Technically, Maryland is a southern state.

25 posted on 05/23/2015 3:19:51 PM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: Zhang Fei
Who cares - as long as the mayor is easy on the eyes?

These are not the eyes you are looking for.

26 posted on 05/23/2015 3:21:33 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Whoa. What can they do about it though? The whole thing was badly handled. Consequences being played out.


27 posted on 05/23/2015 3:23:37 PM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait. Do it today.)
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To: spokeshave
There are non so blind as those who won't see


28 posted on 05/23/2015 3:29:16 PM PDT by spokeshave
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To: DanZ

Maryland is one of the smallest states in terms of area, as well as one of the most densely populated states of the United States. Maryland has the highest median household income, making it the wealthiest state in the nation...

As defined by the United States Census Bureau,[1] the Southern region of the United States includes sixteen states. As of 2010, an estimated 114,555,744 people, or thirty-seven percent of all U.S. residents, lived in the South, the nation’s most populous region.[20] The Census Bureau defined three smaller divisions:

The South Atlantic States: Florida, Georgia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware

The East South Central States: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi and Tennessee

The West South Central States: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Source: Wikipedia


29 posted on 05/23/2015 3:29:58 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

exercising black privilege


30 posted on 05/23/2015 3:37:19 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Dilbert San Diego

If I were a cop in Baltimore, I would try to get a police officer job in Palm Beach, Florida, Southampton, New York, Greenwich, Connecticut, or some other rich, majority white enclave.


31 posted on 05/23/2015 3:49:49 PM PDT by Cecily
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This puts a good progressive in a moral dilemma.

One of the first thing liberals scream about needing when crime goes up, is to hire MORE cops.

How can they now claim to need more cops when they blame all cops in general for the problem in their troubled neighborhoods?


32 posted on 05/23/2015 3:51:33 PM PDT by digger48
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To: hal ogen

The on redeeming point is that the vast majority of shootings are thugs taking out other thugs.


33 posted on 05/23/2015 4:07:04 PM PDT by cyclotic ( Check out traillifeusa.com. America's premier boys outdoor organization)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black lives matter except to other blacks. The leading cause of death for black males 15 to 34 years of age is homicide, blacks killing other blacks in 95% of the cases.

They want respect, but offer none, not even respect for human life, to others. They want money, but don’t want to earn it: They want to steal it outright it or let the government steal it for them. They make trouble wherever they go. They say they’re proud. Many will ask under their breath, proud of what?

It’s time to say enough is enough to the barbarians. Either act like a civilized human being or find some other place to act out your savagery..


34 posted on 05/23/2015 4:07:19 PM PDT by concernedcitizen76 (Term limits. Repeal the 16th and 17th amendments. Sunset bureaucracies.)
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To: cyclotic

On=only


35 posted on 05/23/2015 4:08:10 PM PDT by cyclotic ( Check out traillifeusa.com. America's premier boys outdoor organization)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I just found out the American Legion 2015 convention is being held there. Since I can't go in with a battalion of U S Marines, I'll just have to pass on going. I value my life too much to risk losing it in that socialist hellhole. I wonder how many other Legionnaires will also skip this year.
36 posted on 05/23/2015 4:21:18 PM PDT by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: Zhang Fei

I would sit this out as a cop. Screw the DAs.


37 posted on 05/23/2015 4:34:03 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: AlaskaErik

they should go to Tenessee where the NRA held its convention. DC area sucks.


38 posted on 05/23/2015 4:35:15 PM PDT by lavaroise (A well regulated gun being necessary to the state, the rights of the militia shall no)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

It be white people’s fault.


39 posted on 05/23/2015 4:40:20 PM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black lives don’t matter to black people and democrats.


40 posted on 05/23/2015 4:52:49 PM PDT by vpintheak (Call the left what they are - regressive control-freaks)
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