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| Federalizing Baltimore-opening the door |
| 2015-08-05 |
| I seriously doubt this action will produce much of a reduction in crime. What it will do is provide a transfer of policing and local law enforcement costs from failing, cash strapped urban America to the Federal Gov't. I believe we've seen this movie before, but under Housing, Medical Care, and Education sub-titles. |
| Posted by:Clavigum Flereger6289 |
| #8 Baltimore has gone FUBAR. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2015-08-05 17:25 |
| #7 To be honest, I'm more bitterly amused than alarmed. At Monday's press conference announcing the program, Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md. made a plea to the residents of his home city. Cummings said, "I hear over and over and over again, 'Black Lives Matter'. And they do matter. But black lives also have to matter to black people." While this action is politically and racially motivated (notice there's no similar action for Chicago,) the FBI and other LE agencies also send agents to Karachi. No one calls that "invading Pakistan." |
| Posted by: Pappy 2015-08-05 13:52 |
| #6 ..yep, sister city to DC model of governing without the gentrification wave cause people can't afford to live outside the Beltway. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-05 09:13 |
| #5 And the graft opportunities increase by an order of magnitude. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2015-08-05 09:09 |
| #4 Hey, just federalize all of Baltimore proper as a new 'reservation'. We have dozens of model across the country. Of course those models don't allow the 'reservations' to have representation or funding at the state level as they are separate federal entities. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2015-08-05 08:54 |
| #3 This regime are experts at the de facto. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2015-08-05 07:36 |
| #2 Ergo, you have Martial Law already. Well played, tyrant. |
| Posted by: newc 2015-08-05 04:58 |
| #1 The federal police force displacing all local law is coming. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2015-08-05 00:14 |