Posted on 01/28/2022 4:51:48 AM PST by blam
We want to ask our readers: Why is it that the most liberal metro areas have some of the worst violent crime in the country if liberals are so peaceful and loving?
We gravitate to Baltimore City, where the city’s top prosecutor halted prosecuting minor crimes in early 2021. Before the new policing approach, the metro area had already been overtaken by a violent crime wave since the 2015 riots. And it’s only getting worse.
According to local news WMAR-TV, 25 days into the new year, there have already been 31 homicides.
“We’re not even a full month into the new year and already Baltimore City has seen more homicides this year than there have been days,” the local news station said.
At the moment, the city is averaging a homicide per day. Violent crime is worsening and spreading into the downtown district filled with major financial institutions, bar and restaurant district(s), and tourist areas.
The 2022 homicide trend is well above all years dating back to 2017.
Newly elected Mayor Brandon Scott and Police Commissioner Michael Harrison have said the police department is “doing their job by aggressively and relentlessly pursuing these violent offenders. The department works around the clock to solve these crimes, make arrests and improve the quality of life in our city.”
“Those who commit these violent acts will be held accountable and we will use all resources at our disposal to ensure the safety of Baltimore residents. The violence must stop, and we need everyone’s support to achieve sustainable reductions of violence in our city,” said Harrison.
What’s shocking is that “no arrests have been announced for any of these 31 homicides,” the news station reported.
Mosby’s focus to no longer prosecute drug paraphernalia possession, minor traffic offenses, open container violations, and defecating in public, among other petty crimes, has failed to lower the violent crime rate as promised.
On top of all this, the police department is struggling with staffing shortages that have strained patrols and made homicide investigations harder.
As violent crime surges, liberal cities need to rethink policing to restore law and order.
"What’s shocking is that “no arrests have been announced for any of these 31 homicides,” the news station reported."
Gotta be those darn 'White Supremacists', huh?
“Mayor Brandon Scott”
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Lesco!
Fail?!
They don’t want to maintain law and order.
See my tagline.
Witnesses to violent crimes have a habit of drying up and disappearing in an environment characterized by reluctance to prosecute such crimes. The prosecutors get it in their heads that if there are not at least two direct eyewitnesses to a violent crime a winning case will be too difficult to bring. This leads to further discouragement and squeamishness on the part of direct eyewitnesses. Not exactly a Rudy Giuliani-type situation but rather quite the opposite.
Because minorities are being suppressed by white conservatives, and you know, the thing.
Curiously, the article refers to Mosby but never indicates who she is. I guess the author figures that Baltimore residents know that Marilyn Mosby is the State's Attorney for Baltimore City, but other folks reading the article?
Because if they made an attempt to stop the violence that would mean that they would have to admit a few uncomfortable things.
First is that the TRUE racist are the liberals/progressives/community leaders that expect these communities to be violent.
They know that a significant percentage of these people are worthless criminals, after all they have created them.
Second, it would mean having to admit everything that you believe has been a lie, and that will never happen.
These people would rather have a family member brutalized, so they could then blame it on the system, then admit they were wrong.
> Not exactly a Rudy Giuliani-type situation but rather quite the opposite. <
Yep. Inner cities need two things. They need jobs. That was Trump’s specialty. And they need law-and-order. That was Giuliani‘s specialty.
The country should have embraced those two. But instead they were harassed and smeared. And in their place we have a clueless Biden and many pro-criminal DAs.
This ain’t gonna end well.
All by design. I do not and can not care about a people who do not care about themselves. If they dont wake up they will die.
Democrats don't give a damn about citizens becoming crime victims.
The reason democrat lying mayors 'de-criminalize crimes' is to make their cities look more attractive to businesses deciding where to relocate.
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1982/03/broken-windows/304465/
If you worship in the shadow of Rahm Emanuel and the Obama mayor rules cities that spent decades rebuilding are destroyed PDQ.
"Second, at the community level, disorder and crime are usually inextricably linked, in a kind of developmental sequence.
Social psychologists and police officers tend to agree that if a window in a building is broken and is left unrepaired, all the rest of the windows will soon be broken.
This is as true in nice neighborhoods as in rundown ones.
Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.
Failure to maintain order signals that no one cares and crime will increase,
It is the goal of liberal mayors. They don’t want order, they want chaos.
What’s the big deal?
This is what Baltimore voted for.
“Six people found dead in Milwaukee home were slaughtered ‘execution style’ - and ***three were due to testify at an upcoming murder trial***”
Forget “vaccine hesitance”.
These sorts of things happening creates real hesitance. The kind of hesitance that really negatively effects society.
Think about that: 25,000.
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