Posted on 04/17/2022 2:45:31 PM PDT by Beave Meister
Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott announced plans to launch a 35-person civilian investigative corps to help Baltimore police detectives solve low-level crimes.
Scott announced the $5 million program as part of a $4 billion proposed spending plan for the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), The Baltimore Sun reported.
Baltimore City Budget Director Bob Cenname said the mayor’s proposal called for eliminating 30 vacant sworn police officer positions and replacing them with civilian investigators.
Cenname said the civilians would help detectives and patrol officers in completing investigations by tracking down leads and searching databases, The Baltimore Sun reported.
The mayor and Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison rolled out the plan to stretch resources, WBAL reported.
“It helps us with speed and it helps us with frequency,” Commissioner Harrison explained. “We can get to cases faster and we can take on more cases at the same time by adding this capacity.”
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MD 'Freak State' Ping!
Let me know if you want on/off this list.....
That is an unfortunate truth. The oath does not mean much to officers that will take expediency as a method of cleaning up the streets. But when they get to court they have an aura of respectability that many jurors will be swayed by. That has always been a problem. If the police witness is not a sworn officer will the jurors look upon that as a defect?
McNulty should be able to get on.
Baltimore is a shithole. No sensible person would spend a day there unless kidnapped or picking up lotto winnings.
Nero Wolf, Sherlock Holmes, Mike Hammer? Probably not so much
I’m going to guess hand-picked commie sympathizers.
I would put Clouseau on the case. He knows that the minkee did it.
hey you police...no more investigating or computer searches....nope...you must spend your entire shift out in the ghetto.....don't worry...we carry good insurance on your life...
also, how "diverse" will this group be, or does the leftist mayor already plan to award jobs to that certain segment....
Yeah, this idea is Baltimore brilliant. Like that drug prevention group they had that was found to be dealing drugs.
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