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[THECONSERVATIVETREEHOUSE] More Baltimore coppers 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.It will be interesting to watch the West Side become all of Baltimore. Unfortunately, I still have family living in the city. Leonard Bernstein's dead, so he can't write another "West Side Story."
"Our reform efforts will very likely see more coppers
... anything you say can and will be used against you, whether you say it or not...
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 "We will have more officers who are forced out because their outdated, outmoded views of policing do not match the standards the community expects and demands."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 bad guys want to kill cops and the chief wants them jugged. Good luck with finding recruits.
The piece was published Friday on The Sun's website and appears in Sunday's print editions.
The Sun used to be one of the country's great newspapers. Of course Baldymore used to be a great city, too.
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.