Posted on 07/15/2015 3:07:28 AM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
City officials have suspended operations of the Safe Streets anti-violence program in East Baltimore after police officers found seven guns and drugs stashed inside the Monument Street office.
Police said a robbery investigation led them to the office, and two employees were among those arrested. The suspension sidelines the program's work in East Baltimore at a time when gun violence has been spiking.
Safe Streets, a grant-funded program under the city's Health Department, uses ex-felons in an effort to stem crime. The program has been lauded for keeping violence at a minimum in the four neighborhoods where it operates, and some officials have urged its replication across the city.
The program has had trouble in the past, with offices previously suspended in 2010 and 2013 amid criminal allegations against employees. It has also faced criticism over its recruiting practices. . .
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
I bet their bookkeeping is up to industry standards as well.
Taking grant money to stop the sale of drugs and guns and using it to sell guns and drugs.
Yep, let’s send them MORE money
When you go look at DC revenue money being dished out as state-funded renovation projects for inner-city area....then you start to notice failures. Oddly, you end finding known felons who figured out the money angle...submitted paperwork....got projects funded....took the check....then quietly disappeared. Same deal....they institutionalize the game and streamline it.
Isn't that like using gasoline to put out a fire?
I think they call those “back-fires” - which in this case, it did...
Maybe the Clinton Foundation gave them $75... Clinton's are big spenders for charities... Maybe they kicked in $80...
Won't work.
We should stay with the tried and true: more midnight basketball, community centers named after MLK, a few hundred job training centers and 5,000 more ghetto lawyers willing to 'fight for YOUR disability rights'.
Oh, did I leave out white liberal elites so stupid and guilty that they'll buy any sob story no matter how stupid or vile?
Next liberal program will use violent illegals to calm parents of children murdered by illegals.
“We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
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