Posted on 06/22/2015 6:35:13 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
More Baltimore police officers likely face arrest as the result of reforms in a scandal-ridden department that requires "wholesale change," Commissioner Anthony W. Batts wrote in a wide-ranging opinion piece published in The Baltimore Sun.
"Our reform efforts will very likely see more police officers arrested," Batts wrote. "We will have more officers who are forced out because their outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands."
The piece was published Friday on The Sun's website and appears in Sunday's print editions.
Batts, appointed commissioner nearly three years ago, said he inherited a department stuck in a "cycle of scandal, corruption and malfeasance" and that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake hired him to reform the agency and rebuild community relationships.
"I will not apologize for bringing professionalism and integrity to the forefront while eliminating greed, corruption and intolerance from the rank and file," he wrote. "Policing in any environment is difficult on a good day. That does not mean we have, or should ever have, a blank check to treat the public with callous disregard."(continued)
(Excerpt) Read more at policeone.com ...
bttt
TRANSLATION: "Update yo' resumes, Crackuhs!"
B’More ping....
Prepare for the crime rate to go up even more.
Baltimore is about to be “Detroited” by the idiots in charge.
I agree with your version.
I’d be looking at transferring asap.
“Officers said they did not have proper protective gear to handle a riot and that a “stand down” order may have endangered officers. Batts has said none of his command staff gave such an order.”
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Batts simply wants more dead white cops. Pretty simple to explain...
As long as he can keep his almost $200,000 a year job.
What’s going to happen in the next few decades is every major city will deteriorate into a little third world hell hole.
They’ll leave the cities in droves into the midwest and bible belt areas and that’s where the keg will explode.
Yeah, if you think there’s something wrong with union thugs paralyzing and murdering handcuffed prisoners, you’re a durned LIBERAL!
/sarc
I’m sure you’re right.
I hope Rawlings-Blake gets everything she’s got coming to her. Everything.
Federal policing, here we come.
Liberals don’t care. Their aim is to destroy the US and they are doing it one day at a time.
“We will have more officers who are forced out because their outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands.”
Be careful, very careful in what you “expect” and “demand” ... you may very well get it and maybe even a little more!!!!
Baltimore has had a police malfeasance and corruption problem for as long as I can remember. I’ve lived in the area since 1966. Whether or not the reforms made are the right ones, are executed well, or are fair, I can’t say. I don’t know the plan. Maybe it’ll suck. Maybe this guy might surprise us and turn out to be halfway decent. But it’s not like Baltimore doesn’t need reform.
More changes in the words we use: I alway thought that the word Batt, in Batt $hit Crazy was spelled with one “t”. We live and learn!
White (and other non-Black) cops in the Baltimore PD need to leave that sorry organization. Let Blacks “craft a bunch of all-Black cities and live in them by themselves without the largesse of non-Blacks to provide goods and services for the residents. They will end up with hotels for whores and a bunch of shanty liquor stores!
Liberals don’t care. Their aim is to destroy the US and they are doing it one city at a time.
Butts fumes as Baltimore burns.
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