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| West Baltimore's Police Presence Drops, and Murders Soar |
| 2015-06-15 |
| [NYTIMES] From the steps of her New Bethlehem Baptist Church, the Rev. Lisa Weah looked down the block to the open-air drug market outside the bodega on the corner a few hundred feet away. The traffic there had been slowing until the chaos that followed the death of Freddie Gray on April 19, after he was injured in police custody. Now it is back full-bore, and the police are often nowhere to be seen. A month and a half after six officers were charged in Mr. Gray’s death, policing has dwindled in some of Baltimore’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and murders have risen to levels not seen in four decades. The totals include a 29-year-old man fatally shot on this drug corner last month. Police union officials say that officers are still coming to work, but that some feel a newfound reluctance and are stepping back, questioning whether they will be prosecuted for actions they take on the job. Around the nation, communities and police departments are struggling to adapt to an era of heightened scrutiny, when every stop can be recorded on a cellphone. But residents, clergy members and neighborhood leaders say the past six weeks have made another reality clear: that as much as some officers regularly humiliated and infuriated many who live here, angering gang members and solid citizens alike, the solution has to be better policing, not a diminished police presence. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 "West Baltimore's Police Presence Drops, and Murders Soar" - funny how that works. |
| Posted by: Hupineger Glomomp52169 2015-06-15 15:05 |
| #8 Cuase, meet effect. Have it your way protesters in Baltimore - you dont want police there, you dont get police there. Ought to just build a wall around those neighborhoods and mark them as "policve free zones". Good luck. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2015-06-15 14:34 |
| #7 Procopius, the alternative military tradition, if you don't know the guilty party, is to punish everyone and let them really punish the guilty party. |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2015-06-15 11:45 |
| #6 In civilised places, armed citizens would pick up the slack, in uncivilised places thugs riot. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2015-06-15 11:08 |
| #5 Be careful what you wish for. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2015-06-15 09:32 |
| #4 The military (uniform) tradition is to take and punish one or two of the mutineers. The next step is to fire the chain of command and replace it. In, this case, the civilians who operate the administration above the police. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-06-15 09:08 |
| #3 probably a lot of the murders in June in Balt were between drug gangs fighting over rights to the proceeds from the stuff looted from the CVS |
| Posted by: lord garth 2015-06-15 07:56 |
| #2 Let the carrying load continue to re-balance. Shooting it out until no one is left standing, is also a solution to crime. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-06-15 02:32 |
| #1 As designed by Obams, Holder, and the Racist twins Sharpton and Jackson. |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2015-06-15 01:03 |