Posted on 08/10/2016 8:27:25 AM PDT by ColdOne
full title.............Baltimore cops 'are racist, violent and lawless': Report claims city's police discriminate against blacks and aren't held accountable when they use excessive force ..................Baltimore police officers routinely discriminate against blacks, repeatedly use excessive force and are not adequately held accountable for misconduct, according to a damning Justice Department report.
The report said officers make large numbers of stops — mostly in poor, black neighborhoods — with dubious justification and unlawfully arrest citizens for speech deemed disrespectful.
During a ride-along with Justice Department officials, a sergeant instructed a patrol officer to stop a group of young African-American males on a street corner, question them and order them to disperse.
'When the patrol officer protested that he had no valid reason to stop the group, the sergeant replied, "Then make something up." This incident is far from anomalous,' the report said.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Yeah, with Justice Dept. monitors in the car?? Unless they have it recorded, I say b.s.
The Department of JustUs, of course.
Simple, stop policing the poor, black neighborhoods. Let the go feral (more feral?) Why bother policing the high crime areas /rhetorical
If I were a white Baltimore policeman, I think I would be applying for jobs elsewhere. Somewhere away from a big city with a big black population. Its hard to do your job when you see that, if anything goes wrong, your mayor and DA will cut you loose and hang you out to dry. Regardless of evidence e or rule of law, if you find yourself in a Freddie Gray or Michael Brown situation, you will be hung out to dry.
So do I. Pure BS.
Wonder what the % of black cops vs. white is in Baltimore ...
Of the 2,745 active duty police officers in the department — 1,445 — more than half are African-American, Hispanic, Asian or Native American
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I don't think that this word means what they want it to mean.
For the police, running the ID’s of blacks for outstanding warrants is like hunting over a baited field, or shooting fish in a barrel. I wonder how many outstanding warrants there are in Baltimore. The number of them in Ferguson and surrounding towns is simply incredible. But, somehow it’s discriminatory to enforce legitimate court orders in Baltimore.
These questions are left in rhetorical form, because I suspect almost everyone at Free Republic understands the Answers--and is perfectly clear that those answers are the exact opposite of what it implied by those behind this latest attack.
“If I were a white Baltimore policeman, I think I would be applying for jobs elsewhere. Somewhere away from a big city with a big black population. Its hard to do your job when you see that, if anything goes wrong, your mayor and DA will cut you loose and hang you out to dry. Regardless of evidence e or rule of law, if you find yourself in a Freddie Gray or Michael Brown situation, you will be hung out to dry.”
I’d change only one thing here. It should read “all Baltimore policemen...” With a 63% black “population,” let’s see how “Balmore” gets along w/o any cops.
The feds will coerce the city into a consent decree.
Sounds like Marilyn Mosby found another way to arrange sacrificial cops to Barbarian Lives Matter.
” Simple, stop policing the poor, black neighborhoods.”
After this report, that will happen for sure. If I were a cop I’d be looking the other way. And if I were a white cop, I’d look for a job elsewhere.
Baltimore was one of the test cities after Ferguson. Not hard to follow the dots from a president saying the [Cambridge] police acted stupidly from the very beginning of his first term in office to the UN recently favoring his goal to federalize all law enforcement as a good idea.
Knowing what we know about Holder and Lynch, I wouldn't put it past either of them to insert something like this incident into their report to prove the conclusion they had already arrived at before their investigation even started. That the Baltimore police department discriminated against those poor, black thugs about ready to commit some more crimes.
How federalizing the police forces will stop racial discrimination, is beyond me. One, the feds don't do anything very well to start with. Two, individuals are racist and discriminate, not departments. A federal police force will employee the very same law enforcement people on the job now. There are already laws against discrimination. If needed, enforce those laws and leave the policing to the local communities and states. Federalization will do nothing to stop individual officers from doing what they do now, trying to stop crime in our communities and make us safe.
Do we really want our policing to be taken over by the same federal government that just let HiLIARy off the hook? Or who tells us ObamaCare is working so well? Not I.
It’s a sad but true fact that black communities require more proactive policing than communities populated by other ethnicities.
During a ride-along with Justice Department officials, a sergeant instructed a patrol officer to stop a group of young African-American males on a street corner, question them and order them to disperse.
Really? Ole Sarge was that stupid? Sounds made up to me.
Besides they just put 6 officers on trial for pretty much the same general charges and all were acquitted.
Just another consent decree and the feds take over another police department.,.,by all means, keep sleeping.
Mosby on panel and has been to WH to federalize police. They think they have it bad now?....wait until they have gov take over police forces.
The muzzies are going to be the new protected class now. Pushing BLM types lower on the food chain.
First off. I don’t believe the report of the ride-along for a second.
Second. When you have a city that is 80% black then of course, most of the people you pull over are going to be black.
Third. Blacks tend to dominate public space in inner cities. Of course more blacks are going to be busted hanging out at a street corner when you have a majority black population.
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