Baltimore police have 'stopped noticing crime' after Freddie Gray riots

American Thinker ^ | 07/14/2018 | Rick Moran

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A remarkable article in USA Today confirms what common sense and intelligent observation have told us for years.  Immediately following the Baltimore race riots that ensued after Freddie Gray was found dead in the back of a police van, Baltimore cops began to "stop noticing crime."  They still responded swiftly to calls for help.  But the police force turned a blind eye to crimes being committed right in front of them.

The analysis by USA Today examined millions of Baltimore police records and determined that shocking rise in crime occurred that was directly related to a fall in "on view" reports of crime by police.

"Immediately upon the riot, policing changed in Baltimore, and it changed very dramatically," says Donald Norris, an emeritus professor at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, who reviewed USA TODAY's analysis.  "The outcome of that change in policing has been a lot more crime in Baltimore, especially murders, and people are getting away with those murders."

Police officials acknowledge the change.  "In all candor, officers are not as aggressive as they once were, pre-2015.  It's just that fact," says acting Police Commissioner Gary Tuggle, who took command of Baltimore's police force in May.

Tuggle blames a shortage of patrol officers and the fallout from a blistering 2016 Justice Department investigation that found the city's police regularly violated residents' constitutional rights and prompted new limits on how officers there carry out what had once been routine parts of their job.  At the same time, he says, police have focused more of their energy on gun crime and less on smaller infractions.

"We don't want officers going out, grabbing people out of corners, beating them up and putting them in jail," Tuggle says.  "We want officers engaging folks at every level.  And if somebody needs to be arrested, arrest them [sic]

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Wow Wally cops went dead after they were abandoned by the politicians after the fake Freddy Gray indictments?” “Yeah Beav Ya coulda seen it comin I guess.”