Baltimore Crime Rate Soaring

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  1. huisache

    huisache 2,500+ Posts

    I am not in favor of curing the problems of police abuse by way of the criminal justice system, which I am intimately associated with and which is formidably inefficient. The police departments can come up with protocols to prevent most abuse and can see that they are observed by enforcing them internally. For example, my guess is that the former heroin dealer Mr. Gray got the benefit of a "rough ride" as a result of being a stupid azzhole. Rough Rides are against the rules almost everywhere but the Baltimore cops directly involved did not follow protocol. What made them think they could get away with that? If they knew the rule would be enforced and they would be docked some vacation time or get transferred to less pleasant duties or something boring as hail they might not do it to start with. There are lots of ways to control rough cops. The local police chief in Corpus, who unfortunately died recently in a motorcycle accident, impressed me mightily by firing one cop and letting two others resign after they engaged in some very rough play with a guy who had just murdered some folks at a trailer park. Just ran them off. Promptly. All the other cops took notice. Rough play not tolerated. There is too much looking the other way in too many police departments.

    I have too much sympathy for cops in general to favor trying to cure bad habits by indicting them. And the azzhole prosecutor has wildly over indicted in that case. Six guys consciously worked together to kill the deceased azzhole heroin dealer? I think not. She is trying to force some of the cops to spill whatever they know about the others. Prosecutorial over reaching, which I saw plenty of when I was one decades ago, is as bad as cop misbehavior.
     
  2. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  3. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    mc
    What an indictment on Baltimore's politics and policies.
    That you can post a report on how bad it is 7 YEARS after OP.
     
  4. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

    Some things are eternal.
     
  5. Crockett

    Crockett 5,000+ Posts

    Folks been watching reruns of The Wire.
     
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  6. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

     
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  7. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Full scholarship to aggy!
     
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  8. Mr. Deez

    Mr. Deez Beer Prophet

    But if we just spent more, everything would be great.
     
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  9. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    The mother blamed the school. Yes some responsibility is there.
    But the kid was absent or late 272 days .
     
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  10. guy4321

    guy4321 2,500+ Posts

    Maybe he'd be more on time if the school district paid for his daily Uber?
     
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  11. Facing Addiction

    Facing Addiction 1,000+ Posts

    But wait, we're being told that nationally the violent crime rate is going down...

    uh-oh...

    The US violent crime rate went "down" in 2021 because 40% of cities, including New York and Los Angeles, didn't turn in their data | Not the Bee

    "Most departments in Florida, California, New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania failed to report data, according to the Marshall Project, which has been tracking the data for months. The two most populated cities in the country, New York and Los Angeles, also failed to deliver full reports to the FBI last year.

    Only 52% of law enforcement departments nationwide sent full, 12-month reports of crime data to the FBI for last year. Roughly 9,700 law enforcement agencies did not provide full data sets, Reuters reported."
     
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  12. guy4321

    guy4321 2,500+ Posts

    Does federal law require cities to provide such violent crime data?
     
  13. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

  14. Chop

    Chop 10,000+ Posts

    2 guys in boot camp were from the City of Baltimore. Both had that hard edge just radiating off of them. One was dumb as a box of rocks. The other (despite the hard edge) was the comedian of the company. Fortunately, he was actually really funny—although he sure did pay for it in absurd numbers of push-ups, etc. Needless to say, he graduated in exceptional physical condition.
     
  15. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    Chop :coolnana:
    great sig. "dissipate":headbang:
     
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  16. Statalyzer

    Statalyzer 10,000+ Posts

    Probably the fact that they almost always do get away with it, both internally and externally.
     
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  17. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    Maybe...unless he's being recruited for football at ou. Passing three classes should be enough for ou.
     
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  18. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

     
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  19. Horn6721

    Horn6721 10,000+ Posts

    WTF isn't strong enough to express the horror at seeing this.
     
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  20. HornHuskerDad

    HornHuskerDad 5,000+ Posts

    Exactly! Why, oh why, do the people of Kalifornia put up with this garbage? Why don't they insist that laws be enforced? Why don't these brazen looters spend a couple years in San Quentin?
     
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  21. Facing Addiction

    Facing Addiction 1,000+ Posts

    Democrats: Get your freaking cities under control | Not the Bee

    The suspect was caught on a surveillance camera walking up behind the 37-year-old male parking official and shooting him in the head at point-blank range at 3.50pm on the 45xx block Frankford Avenue the day after Thanksgiving.

    Police remain unsure as to what prompted the shooting, but it may be linked to a parking ticket issued by the victim.
     
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  22. Monahorns

    Monahorns 10,000+ Posts

    What is happening in Communist (because I guarantee no one voted for the disorder) run cities is the concept of Anarcho-tyranny. The Left is spreading its usage wherever they can get away with it.
     
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  23. Sangre Naranjada

    Sangre Naranjada 10,000+ Posts

    Why don't people just beat their asses bloody right there on the spot?
     
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  24. mchammer

    mchammer 10,000+ Posts

     
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  25. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    You probably can figure out who would get in more trouble there.
     
  26. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    I hope Baltimore, Philadelphia, NYC, Chicago, Detroit, Seattle, Portland and all of California burn to the ground in 2023. It these cities that vote in Biden and the democrats.
     
  27. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Chicago proper, right? Cuz we suburbanites are pretty alright.
     
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  28. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Maybe Long Grove and Clarendon Hills or wherever you and Mrs. HIC live.
     
  29. horninchicago

    horninchicago 10,000+ Posts

    Right next door to Clarendon Hills.
     
  30. theiioftx

    theiioftx Sponsor Deputy

    Ok I’ll allow it.
     
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