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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your bias is getting in the way. bias is blinding you.
in Baltimore, unions are not the problem. although there are several interrelated problems, political corruption and inertia are the primary problem in a rotten crime ridden city
My bias? What in the world are you talking about?
Isn’t this a union slowdown, and people dying as a result of the union going on a partial strike?
So am I to understand that baltimore isn’t “Charm City” anymore? Hahahahaha. The LIBs reap what they sow.
But they continue to gain political power.
How many times have seen the state election go one way, and then flip when the big city returns come in.
The libs win.
so far you have provided no evidence that police unions are the cause for slow downs in Baltimore city.
It apparently never occurred to you that sane and rational action can occur absent coercion by a union.
Internal police politics are considered a stronger force in Baltimore than the union
I see, prove that an obvious union slowdown, is a union slowdown.
I’m so concerned by your seeking of proof, that I will get right on that.
While you are waiting, since most of these threads consist of posters gloating that the union cops are deliberately taking it easy, and pointing out that the people deserve what they get, and so on, you can also tell them that you need proof, because you don’t think the slowdown is being done on purpose at all.
My only experience with Maryland was spending some time there while staying with a black family in some black community, we spent our time fishing under bridges and such during the day, and partying and drinking at night.
But that was in a different era.
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