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Union: Baltimore City Police in ‘Crisis’ Due to Officer Shortage
WJZ ^ | January 5, 2017 | Mike Hellgren

Posted on 01/06/2017 8:42:59 AM PST by george76

Baltimore City’s Police Union is sounding the alarm because they say the department is in crisis due to the fact that it has too few officers.

According to a new report, there are more than 100 fewer Baltimore City PD officers than last year, with the union saying this poses a safety concern as officers are being overworked.

The police union president calls the situation “dire.”

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You don’t have enough police officers to patrol the streets safely protecting themselves, much less protecting the citizens of Baltimore,” said Lt. Ryan.

Baltimore ended last year with the second highest number of murders per capita in the city’s history.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimore.cbslocal.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; News/Current Events; US: District of Columbia; US: Maryland; US: New York; US: Pennsylvania; US: Virginia
KEYWORDS: baltimore; maryland; police; unexpected; union
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To: george76
Same solution in the late 60s... National Guard for the usual suspects.
21 posted on 01/06/2017 8:58:49 AM PST by keving (We get the government to vote)
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To: Red Badger
Well, if the Giants were in town, you may not have been the only blond.............

Lord have MERCY!!!

22 posted on 01/06/2017 8:59:10 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: Vendome
Baltimore ended last year with the second highest number of murders per capita in the city’s history... Not sure that is a police problem, so much as a cultural problem. San Jose, CA has nearly twice the number of residents and 1/10 the number of murders.

WHAT? No Oakland numbers? Hmmmm, must be getting too expensive to live there.

23 posted on 01/06/2017 9:00:26 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: george76

being a pooolise in baltimore is a waste of protoplasm


24 posted on 01/06/2017 9:02:46 AM PST by bert (K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;WASP .... Macroagression melts snowflakes)
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To: cloudmountain

Both of my parents were born in Baltimore. My aunt still lives there, down by the harbor. After all that happened with the Freddy Gray incident, I’m surprised there are ANY police still in Baltimore. I would’ve expected them all to quit.


25 posted on 01/06/2017 9:04:34 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Terry Mross

“Instigate people to force cops to kill blacks then prosecute the cops. Instigate blacks killing cops. Results: cop shortage”

Solution: The rest of the cops should find work in other jurisdictions. Baltimore brought everything that’s happened there on themselves. Black Africans are a lot more civilized today than their American Ghetto cousins. I just wonder why anyone would want to be in law enforcement in a city that suborns criminal acts. If they had any brains they would have sent their idiot black mayor (Stephanie Rawlings-Blake) and that worthless racist black female prosecutor packing.


26 posted on 01/06/2017 9:05:37 AM PST by vette6387
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To: george76


27 posted on 01/06/2017 9:05:55 AM PST by Iron Munro (If Illegals voted Rebublican 50 Million Democrats Would Be Screaming "Build The Wall!")
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To: Twotone
Both of my parents were born in Baltimore. My aunt still lives there, down by the harbor. After all that happened with the Freddy Gray incident, I’m surprised there are ANY police still in Baltimore. I would’ve expected them all to quit.

WHAT a shame.
I wonder what will become of Baltimore? Will it be the next Chicago? VERY SAD.

I'm sure your aunt has a very nice place. She must have SOME stories to tell.

28 posted on 01/06/2017 9:07:42 AM PST by cloudmountain
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

Hey pal, you need to change that to citizens of Baltimore City south to Washington DC. The rest of us are pretty normal and cling to our guns and religion.

In my county, the entire county government is republican. The Sheriff checks the citizenship status of every detainee. We went 59% for Trump.

Sadly, we are outnumbered by the brain dead libs in the heavily populated southern part of the state.


29 posted on 01/06/2017 9:08:06 AM PST by cyclotic (Democrats haven't been this mad since we freed their slaves)
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To: george76

I have family in Baltimore...

Democrats but not moonbats liberals...

According to them it’s not a democrat problem it’s systemic insitutionalized racism building up for decades...

they are in denial and the truth to them is too painful to realize...


30 posted on 01/06/2017 9:09:26 AM PST by Popman
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To: george76

Name one city that doesn’t have a shortage off police.


31 posted on 01/06/2017 9:09:26 AM PST by bgill (From the CDC site, "We don't know how people are infected with Ebola")
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To: george76

I don’t see police in my neighborhood, don’t see crime either. There must be something different about my neighborhood than Baltimore.


32 posted on 01/06/2017 9:10:27 AM PST by umgud
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To: george76

They would still get plenty of applications if the city was fiscally sound.

These are jobs with very good pay, excellent benefits and amazing pensions. All you need is a HS diploma.

But the new guys know the pensions are doomed. Especially 10-20 years into the future...


33 posted on 01/06/2017 9:14:39 AM PST by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: grania

Let the Balto Police serve the business and upscale residential communities.

The anti coppers can police their own hoods.


34 posted on 01/06/2017 9:21:24 AM PST by A_Former_Democrat ("Liberalism is a mental disorder" On FULL Display NOW BOYCOTT PepsiCO Kellogg's)
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To: george76

Just like Chicago


35 posted on 01/06/2017 9:23:11 AM PST by uncbob
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To: george76
The city's leadership must learn to support the officers working for them.
If they choose to stab their own cops in the back, as they have done, this outcome is not surprising.
Cop versus belligerent thug - support the cop, not the thug, regardless of skin colors of everyone involved.


36 posted on 01/06/2017 9:23:29 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: cloudmountain

It seems the people of Baltimore have finally cut off their noses to spite their faces.


37 posted on 01/06/2017 9:29:38 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (We need a separation of press and state!)
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To: george76

Who would want to be on that police force?

It’s not surprising in the least that they don’t have enough police. Perhaps they should have thought things out a little better in advance.


38 posted on 01/06/2017 9:34:27 AM PST by Lorianne
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To: cloudmountain
BALTIMORE is a black city. I wasn’t aware of that until I WENT there to see Cal Ripken’s last game. I THINK that I was the only blonde around.

Yep - other than the inner harbor, right across from the old stadium, it deteriorates quickly in any direction you care to go.

39 posted on 01/06/2017 9:42:15 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: george76

So the union is suffering from the lack of revenue to the tune of 100 less dues paying members...follow the money.


40 posted on 01/06/2017 9:43:25 AM PST by Sergio (An object at rest cannot be stopped! - The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs at Midnight)
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