I wish they would hurry up and display a little common sense...like a mass case of blue flu...across the Country. At least until the powers that be realize they done screwed up.
I think that the number of arrests has plummeted in some areas. It isn’t the blue flu. I think it’s really bad morale.
It will be more subtle and damaging. Officers will be quicker to claim disability, to take sick days, to use all the vacation time they can this summer. The best of them will find jobs elsewhere when they can, new recruits will be low caliber. The police won't take risks. One can't help but wonder if that's already happening, and that's why the murder rate is up.
It’s not a county thing, it’s a Baltimore city problem. The rest of Baltimore County is fairly well-run.