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West Baltimore’s Police Presence Drops, and Murders Soar
The New York Times ^ | June 12, 2015 | Richard A. Oppel, Junior

Posted on 06/12/2015 2:20:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

BALTIMORE — From the steps of her New Bethlehem Baptist Church, the Rev. Lisa Weah looked down the block to the open-air drug market outside the bodega on the corner a few hundred feet away.

The traffic there had been slowing until the chaos that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, after he was injured in police custody. Now it is back full-bore, and the police are often nowhere to be seen.

A month and a half after six officers were charged in Mr. Gray’s death, policing has dwindled in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and murders have risen to levels not seen in four decades. The totals include a 29-year-old man fatally shot on this drug corner last month. Police union officials say that officers are still coming to work, but that some feel a newfound reluctance and are stepping back, questioning whether they will be prosecuted for actions they take on the job....

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blacks; drugs; maryland
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Heck, the open air drug market might be the only economic activity going on in that area.


21 posted on 06/12/2015 2:44:36 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: golux

that’s cold man lol.


22 posted on 06/12/2015 2:44:44 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: dp0622

I’ll try not to.


23 posted on 06/12/2015 2:45:27 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: hardspunned
What they do to each other in their own neighborhoods is not my responsibility or concern. Go tell it to the Kenyan.

They have. Maybe that's why he's proposing new action to push poor blacks into affluent white neighborhoods by placing low income quotas on block grants.

24 posted on 06/12/2015 2:50:10 PM PDT by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I will chip in whatever amount is necessary. To hell with the grants


25 posted on 06/12/2015 2:52:51 PM PDT by dp0622
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Be careful, very careful in what you pray for!!!!


26 posted on 06/12/2015 2:52:53 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Government sponsored organized crime (other than Chicago) ... government worker unions!)
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To: umgud

It’s not just about Gray, in fact if it was Gray alone it probably would be business near normal.

It’s about the insanity that launched with Trayvon and in Ferguson with Washington DC as amen chorus.

A juggernaut of pure perversity is on the loose and it is on back patting terms with Big Ears.


27 posted on 06/12/2015 2:58:24 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Of course the geniuses at the Slimes sound surprised


28 posted on 06/12/2015 2:58:58 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: ansel12

I would start with their AA mayor and DA.


29 posted on 06/12/2015 3:01:03 PM PDT by aquila48
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To: HiTech RedNeck

We’ll not see the end of the trouble “ears” has caused for a long long time.


30 posted on 06/12/2015 3:15:51 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: ansel12

have you ever watched the TV series the Wire?

to understand Baltimore City you must watch and absorb the Wire series


31 posted on 06/12/2015 3:56:48 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: bert

I’m not interested in Baltimore, or whichever city is having a blck problem from decade to decade, I’m more intersted in the government/police/firemen/teachers/garbage/nurses, unions that are taking over local and state governments everywhere in America.


32 posted on 06/12/2015 3:59:54 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
~ What's The Difference Between This: ~

 photo article-1200917-05C68C63000005DC-86.jpg

~ And This: ~

 photo Baltimore-Riots.jpg


33 posted on 06/12/2015 4:05:15 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

” It’s about the insanity that launched with Trayvon and in Ferguson with Washington DC as amen chorus—”

The idiot in the WH made his feelings about the police known 5 months after he was first sworn in. The infamous Henry Louis Gates fiasco bared it all.

He is personally responsible for the chaos IMHO. The thugs know they are immune to punishment.

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34 posted on 06/12/2015 4:16:23 PM PDT by Mears
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To: fatnotlazy

“”the agitators and the dopes who follow them “”

There you go! Everyone hollering “black lives matter” and the professional agitators in the country can march themselves right into Baltimore and do the job of the police. WITHOUT protection!!!!!


35 posted on 06/12/2015 4:27:06 PM PDT by Thank You Rush
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To: SkyDancer

What’s The Difference?

The second photo shows shoes, otherwise it appears to be the same photo, ... but I’m posting without my eyeglasses.


36 posted on 06/12/2015 4:55:10 PM PDT by LucyT
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To: LucyT

I bet they weren’t work shoes.


37 posted on 06/12/2015 4:58:57 PM PDT by SkyDancer ( I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am ...)
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To: ansel12

if you watched the program you would see that what you think is not true


38 posted on 06/12/2015 5:08:16 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Idiots cut off thier nose in spite of thier face and now the drug gangs and families control the house


39 posted on 06/12/2015 5:11:53 PM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: bert

That must be quite a tv show to correct me on my 50 years of being against government unions, too bad FDR wasn’t around to see it, since he also thought that government unions was an insane idea.


40 posted on 06/12/2015 5:32:06 PM PDT by ansel12
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