Posted on 06/06/2015 2:02:46 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Baltimore residents seem to be facing an impossible dilemma: They can have abusive policing, or hardly any at all.
The first option was abundantly well-documented in the days after Freddie Gray’s death: the history of rough rides and brutality; the repeated inattention to emergencies; the unwise tactical decisions. Since the city exploded, then calmed down, residents are starting to get a feel for their other choice.
As The Baltimore Sun noted over the weekend, May saw the most murders in any month in Charm City since 1972. Non-lethal shootings have gone up sharply as well. But arrests are down across the city—there were 1,177 arrests in May 2015, as compared to 3,801 in May 2014. The idea that lower arrests are ipso facto a bad thing should not go unchallenged: Critics of broken-windows style policing say that there have been too many arrests for petty or irrelevant crimes. Such overly aggressive policing has driven a wedge between the community and the cops. Freddie Gray was almost certainly a victim of excessive arrests—he was detained only for running away from police, and the prosecutor and officers differ on whether the knife they found in his pocket once he was handcuffed was legal or not.
But Baltimoreans in places like Gray’s neighborhood of Sandtown didn’t say they wanted no policing. NPR talked to West Baltimoreans who complained that calls they placed to 911 to complain about crimes have gone without any response—sometimes dozens of them.
Yet no one can pinpoint what exactly is behind the spike in crime and dive in arrests. Those residents and some civil-rights advocates think the police are intentionally backing off of enforcing crimes—like going on a strike, but not as radical...
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Hmmm this is a tough one....NOT!
Live not by lies.
Leftism. The same thing that causes the ills of the world.
So you’re saying he’s full of shibboleth?
>> Leftism. The same thing that causes the ills of the world.
+1
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Baltimore cops are just letting jungle law run its course. The community says they don’t want them. Give’m their wish and let them kill themselves off.
Giving space to destroy?
Simple, they are up to their butts in barbarians. There aren’t any politically correct solutions, things will get worse.
Blacks purport to believe that the evil stupid honky in general and the cops in particular have it in for them but they never stop demanding things of the evil stupid honky. This makes no sense. ALL BLACKS HAVE TO DO IS TAKE MATTERS INTO HAND AND SOLVE WHATEVER IS THE PROBLEM THEMSELVES! But they never do. Ever.
P.S. This should be a word of the day, if it hasn't been already. It comes from the Bible, specifically Judges 12:5-6, as a way of discernin at the stream crossing, whether a particular person was friend or foe: friends could pronounce "shibboleth" (meaning "stream") while foes could only say "sibboleth." (There's a joke in there, but decorum constrains me from stating it.)
Incidentally, this is the opposite of Japanese, which doesn't have a "si" sound but only an "shi" sound. Here endeth the lesson...
Giving space to kill each other. This should be done in every inner city.
Shocking!
The fact the crime in Baltimore city is rising is because it is in Baltimore
Criminals cause crime. One way to stop crime - JESUS. Pray for revival in the inner cities.
I heard that an enormous amount of prescription drugs were stolen during the riots and the killings are territorial disputes related to who can sell what where.
I would recommend, no advise, hunting up and then viewing all 5 seasons of The Wire
The Wire fiction is now being played out for real in Baltimore City.
They will start eating each other in a few weeks. It’s just their culture.
Rite Aid says personal information, prescriptions stolen in Baltimore looting (175,000 units)
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