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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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Darn it, that's too bad.
1 posted on 06/12/2015 2:20:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well, the agitators and the dopes who follow them wanted no police. And that’s what they got.

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. You just might get it.


2 posted on 06/12/2015 2:23:13 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sounds like an interesting experiment.


3 posted on 06/12/2015 2:24:30 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: fatnotlazy

Let those savages kill each other. WGAF.


4 posted on 06/12/2015 2:25:57 PM PDT by forgotten man
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West Baltimore’s Police Presence Drops, and Murders Soar

Beginning to care less and less about Urban dwellers getting the consequences of their own life choices.

5 posted on 06/12/2015 2:27:20 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: forgotten man

Amen brother!


6 posted on 06/12/2015 2:28:13 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Black lives matter to me and I pledge not to take one. What they do to each other in their own neighborhoods is not my responsibility or concern. Go tell it to the Kenyan.


7 posted on 06/12/2015 2:29:02 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Dunkin’ Doughnuts will be the only place of refuge.


8 posted on 06/12/2015 2:29:51 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The union is government, and it is the police, never let your government unionize against you.

The voters need to look at removing the chief.


9 posted on 06/12/2015 2:30:04 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

These cops face pretty crappy consequences ranging from job loss all the way thru being charged criminally for doing anything that outrages blacks. This is spreading accross the country.


10 posted on 06/12/2015 2:30:27 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

If I was a cop, I wouldn’t go down there.

You’ll get shot and then get arrested for trying to enforce the law.


11 posted on 06/12/2015 2:31:25 PM PDT by Tzimisce
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Just desserts.


12 posted on 06/12/2015 2:32:28 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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"Black lives matter to me and I pledge not to take one."

Not even in self-defense?

13 posted on 06/12/2015 2:32:58 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (You can help: https://donate.tedcruz.org/c/FBTX0095/)
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To: umgud
O'Bastard's real legacy will be how he demoralized both the military and the police to the point where neither are very effective.

With the police this may mean the end to the uncorrupted police force. The third world is full of police departments up for sale. We may be next.

14 posted on 06/12/2015 2:33:11 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: ansel12

the chief reports to the mayor

the voters elected the mayor


15 posted on 06/12/2015 2:34:07 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m concerned about you getting sick over this. Don’t let it eat at you :)


16 posted on 06/12/2015 2:34:36 PM PDT by dp0622
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I know, they need to get rid of the leaders who can’t control the police, and they need to look to some conservatism, for advice on how to fight the government police union, which was there before the mayor, and will help decide the next mayor, and that will be there after the next mayor.


17 posted on 06/12/2015 2:36:18 PM PDT by ansel12
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To: central_va

ditto that.


18 posted on 06/12/2015 2:37:29 PM PDT by umgud (When under attack, victims want 2 things; God & a gun)
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To: dp0622
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19 posted on 06/12/2015 2:42:26 PM PDT by golux
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Seems to me they asked for it.


20 posted on 06/12/2015 2:44:19 PM PDT by b4its2late (A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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