Just as Martin O’Malley, Baltimore’s Democrat ex-mayor, prepares to announce a run for the White house, he faces devastating and detailed criticism for his role in creating the mess in Baltimore from a noted expert on the city: David Simon, reporter, author, and creator of the seminal HBO crime dramaThe Wire.
Former Baltimore Mayor and Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley isn’t a household name, but it appears he’s about to take on Hillary Clinton for the Democrat nomination. The New York Times just announced O’Malley’s hiring of a political director who previously worked with Barack Obama and called O’Malley’s presidential announcement “almost certain.”
O’Malley recently told NBC’s Meet The Press that he “won’t think of announcing” his presidential bid anywhere other than Baltimore.
It’s not a great time to be a former mayor of Baltimore, however. Rioting, looting, and unrest in the city became front page headlines for a week, as the result of tension between Baltimore’s black community and the police.
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MD Public Defenders Office is questioning whether Mayor Bling had the authority to lift the curfew. Say only Governor Hogan can do it.
ReplyDeleteEveryone from judges, lawyers both private attorneys and prosecutors are so pissed off w/Mosby's and SRB's incompetence looks like they are doing all they can to bring light to the incompetence.
Seems Mayor Ireton learned how to figure crime statistics from O'Malley.
ReplyDeleteStick a fork in her - she's done!
ReplyDeleteSimon's article on The Marshall Project was damning. I encourage sbynews readers to click thru the link provided in the article to read the whole thing for themselves.
ReplyDeleteWe keep hearing about all the money dumped into Baltimore City and where did it go. It's not a mystery.
ReplyDeleteI know back in the early 1990's 101 'quasi'-governmental agencies were created with grant monies for everything anyone can think of under the sun-redevelopment, affordable housing, after school programs, etc etc.
The agencies were all staffed with recent law school grads who could command a higher than normal salary for the positions. The money wasn't going back into the communities as was the plan. The large bulk of it going to administrative costs.
Don't drink the whole glass of cool aid just yet. Simon also had an agenda. It doctored numerous thing to make his show sell. No one like old common police work. Simon stays out of Charm City for a reason he stepped on a lot of people on his way to the bank.
ReplyDeletePeople would not have watched if he told the tired truth.
ReplyDelete"Just as Martin O’Malley, Baltimore’s Democrat ex-mayor, prepares to announce a run for the White house, he faces devastating and detailed criticism for his role in creating the mess in Baltimore from a noted expert on the city: David Simon, reporter, author, and creator of the seminal HBO crime dramaThe Wire"
Pocomoke City Police Chief Kelvin Sewell said the same in his book-Why Do We Kill? The Pathology of Murder in Baltimore.
Chief Sewell was a Baltimore City Homicide Detective before coming to the Eastern Shore.
I recommend his book as well as Felicia "Snoop" Pearson's a Baltimore street kid who was "discovered" and played a character somewhat like herself on the Wire. Unfortunately it wasn't enough and she's back to her old lifestyle.