Posted on 08/04/2015 12:23:13 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Ten federal agents will join the Baltimore police homicide unit, commanders announced Sunday, after the city followed its deadliest month in decades with a night in which 10 people were shot — seven of them in one incident.
Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the addition of the special agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Secret Service represent a "flipping of the script of sorts."
"That's a bit unusual because local police departments — and Baltimore is no different — historically send detectives to federal law enforcement agencies to embed with their long-term investigations," he said.
The department's homicide clearance rate is 36 percent. Davis said the agents will use federal resources to help homicide detectives solve killings.
A total of 191 people have been killed in Baltimore in 2015. Forty-five people were killed in July alone, matching the all-time monthly high from 1972, when the city had 275,000 more residents. Forty-two people were killed in May, the month after the death of Freddie Gray in police custody sparked riots.
The violence this year is in some ways unprecedented: No previous year has had two months with more than 40 killings, and the 116 killed from May to July is a three-month high in data kept since 1970.
Davis said officers have confiscated about 20 percent more guns on the street this year than at this point last year. Police believe people are arming themselves amid an "atmosphere of uncertainty" after April's unrest.
"Given where we are now in Baltimore, we need to win tomorrow," Davis said. "We need to win Tuesday, then we need to win Wednesday.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
The feds want to embed?
Make THEM ‘the point man’!
right.
There’s a reason for that -
local police would likely defend the property owners and citizens against the coming ubiquitous rioting.
The feds will defend the rioters.
Base out of Ft Sumter with a battalion and impose a curfew, city wide of 8pm to 7am.
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“Interim Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said the addition of the special agents from the FBI, the Drug Enforcement Agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, the U.S. Marshals Service and the U.S. Secret Service represent a “flipping of the script of sorts.””
Wonder why the Secret Service? What aspect of this falls into their area of expertise? Lots of counterfeiting going on perhaps?
The local donut shops are gonna be REAL busy.
Can’t blame the cops, though.
Since its under odumbo’s watch, its now the blind leading the blind.
There is no situation that won’t be made worse by the involvement of the federalis.
The Feds are really there to police the police. Every local cop is now under surveillance.
this is what Obama and his minions do : they let the demons out of Pandora’s box .....
“Given where we are now in Baltimore, we need to win tomorrow,” Davis said. “We need to win Tuesday, then we need to win Wednesday. So we can’t be looking too far down the road because we’re in a moment we need to fight our way out of. Having [federal agents] embed with our homicide detectives and literally be on the streets of Baltimore, boots on the ground, is what we need right now.”
So what happen when a criminal shoots an FBI agent, or an FBI agent shoots a suspect? This is a dangerous city. They are not just going there as bureaucrats. The local cops will push them to the front and tell them to show what they can do.
Baltimore: the new Club Fed.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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