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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Then they should quit.
how could anyone disagree with that. I have a dream. A dream where people wake up and realize that their tax dollars do matter; that without them the government will cease to exist. A dream where the people stand and refuse to pay taxes and the leeches learn that without them the government can give them nothing.
Hmm. What’s causing a spike in crime in a black city, run by a black mayor, with a black states attorney, prosecuting cops for doing their jobs? BLACK people are causing the spike in crime. All the moaning and whining that someone has to do something. It’s ALWAYS someone else. It’s like after the riots in Ferguson. The black people were complaining about the piles of rubbish littering the streets waiting for SOMEONE else to do something about it. Heaven forbid they put on some gloves and pick up the garbage. Public housing projects are a disgrace. SOMEONE else should clean them up and maintain them. Never the residents.
Well, that SOMEONE ELSE who maintains some sense of order in these broken cities are being prosecuted and threatened by the people complaining the loudest. That SOMEONE ELSE is called a racist and told to “check your privilege” constantly. So screw the ghettos. I’m tired of paying for them and tired of hearing about it.
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