Posted on 01/02/2016 4:37:48 AM PST by Fzob
IT HAS been a bloody year in Baltimore, Maryland’s largest city. On November 14th the police department reported the city’s 300th homicide in 2015, a total not seen since 1999. The surge in killings in the majority-black city of roughly 623,000 began after the death on April 19th of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was fatally injured while in police custody. Since Mr Gray’s death the city has recorded 244 homicides, a 78% increase over the same period in 2014, representing more than 100 additional deaths (see chart). Criminologists and city officials disagree as to the causes. Some say police have deliberately pulled back from poor, black neighbourhoods, a theory that the police disputes. Others blame an influx of drugs from pharmacies looted during the April riots.
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Frankly, I derive a lot of satisfaction from seeing the hotbeds of Obama support suffer so. We warned them, but they didn’t listen; they’re still expecting him to pay their rent, buy gasoline for their wheels, etc.
If the BLM crowd hate the cops that much, the cops should oblige them and stay out of their neighbourhoods.
Well, at this rate. the crime rate is bound to go down at some point.
The trash will have taken out the trash.
I'm pretty sure the cops have figured this out, hence the soaring murder rate in "charm" city.
The butler did it. Probably where this winds up.
Now seriously, would you be a cop or firefighter in a majority black city? Or a black led city?
I suspect many of these cities will soon have problems filling their ranks as the “first responders” (black, white and in between) seek employment in normal communities.
Exactly, sometimes you get the police force you deserve.
Any hate crimes to report. Affies murdering whites is the new progressive knockout game?
They already are. Qualified applicants cannot be found....
Some things I remember forever. One of them is that the “community leaders” who burned down a huge swath of their city were going to police themselves, and make it safer without those evil police. (not my words)
It must be cops killing all these people. That’s the only thing I’m getting from media and the Casa Blanca.
Honestly, it is the attitude that minority kids are taught at home and through their peers because you can bet it is in minority neighborhoods that the violence has spiked.
Down here, we just had an armed robbery. Young man grew up in the neighborhood, came in an robbed a store on New Years. Even disguised, the owner recognized him as he had been coming into the store for years, owner had liked the kid as he grew up. But he had turned 20, attitude and group he hung with had changed. Now he is facing a long term for armed robbery and shooting at the cops when the tried to arrest him.
When you are a young minority man, listen to gangster rap glorifying the gang world, admiring the gang members driving the Caddy SUVs, etc, do you really think that without a solid family background you are going to accept that working at WalMart and working your way up through the company is the best way to live? You want the bling, the excitement, the ‘street cred’ that comes from the gangster life.
And we can thank our social programs for destroying the minority families.
A 78 % increase in homicides and an additional 100 black deaths are an acceptable level of collateral damage for progressives to retain power and control...
100 additional deaths when compared to the hundreds of millions dead in the 20 th century to keep progressive / marxist ideology moving forward is small potatoes...
Of those 305 murders, what was the ratio of blacks vs other races that were murdered? BLM appears to be just like any other city run by blacks. What about the murder rate ratio in Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, etc.?
Impeach the mayor
I work with these kids and their families. You’re absolutely right - the pull of the streets is often stronger than the adolescent’s ability to do the right thing, even when they want to. To me, the biggest factor is not having a father in their life. In very few cases is the father around, which makes gang relationships so powerful. They’re the family the kid never had. When you have a single mother with other kids, stressed to the limit, who doesn’t have the energy or inclination to give the kid the love and encouragement they need, it’s really hard to undo the damage. But to me the key is the men - these kids need fathers. The mothers try t be both mother and father to their sons and daughters, but it’s impossible. They end up being bullied by their kids and the anger that should be directed to the absent father taken out on the mother. It’s a terrible cycle.
Detroit’s murder rate has taken a nosedive since Michigan started issuing concealed permits. It also helped when the Detroit Police Chief advised citizens to get one because the police can’t be everywhere at once and response time is slow. Good job.
The mayor has already stated she will not seek reelection. I think after Baltimore received national attention it become blatenly obvious to even the most progressive leftist that she is too stupid to be dogcatcher
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