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Tuesday, June 02, 2015

Baltimore Pays the Price

Baltimore is now paying the price for irresponsible words and actions, not only by young thugs in the streets, but also by its mayor and the state prosecutor, both of whom threw the police to the wolves, in order to curry favor with local voters.

Now murders in Baltimore in May have been more than double what they were in May last year, and higher than in any May in the past 15 years. Meanwhile, the number of arrests is down by more than 50 percent.

Various other communities across the country are experiencing very similar explosions of crime and reductions of arrests, in the wake of anti-police mob rampages from coast to coast that the media sanitize as “protests.”

None of this should be surprising. In her carefully researched 2010 book, “Are Cops Racist?” Heather Mac Donald pointed out that, after anti-police campaigns, cops tended to do less policing and criminals tended to commit more crimes.

If all this has been known for years, why do the same mistakes keep getting made?

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10 comments:

Anonymous said...

don't fall for this garbage "community organizers" are pushing for a national police force! Criminals need to be locked up..pot offences are a waste of resources but voilent people need to be locked up and put away for good

Anonymous said...

STOP the brutality ON the Police and let them do their jobs and deal with the THUGs the correct way.

Anonymous said...

6 shootings already today. At least one has resulted in a death. Not sure if any more have at this point in time. Still 3 hours left in the day.

Anonymous said...

Let them kill each other off, less for the cops to have to deal with.

Anonymous said...

Anonymous Anonymous said...
STOP the brutality ON the Police and let them do their jobs and deal with the THUGs the correct way.

June 2, 2015 at 6:42 PM

WHAT brutality on police?

Anonymous said...

Lets give O'Malley credit for taking the streets back from the thugs when he was mayor.

Anonymous said...

Form your militia now.

Anonymous said...

"Anonymous said...

Lets give O'Malley credit for taking the streets back from the thugs when he was mayor.

June 3, 2015 at 7:01 AM"

That's what they are griping about. They called all the stop and frisks and arrests for minor offenses measures implemented under O'Malley harassment. Many illegal handguns were taken off the streets of Baltimore when a cops arrested people for taking a leak on the side of a building. Same with loitering, littering, etc. Not only did they find weapons and/or drugs on these offenders but some even turned into snitches resulting in other (more serious and violent) crimes being solved and the charges against them (for the minor offenses) dropped.

Anonymous said...

Didn't our very own Sheriff of Wicomico tell us on TV that the police are "standing down?" They are frightened and don't want to die or get arrested for doing their job? That is what I thought I heard.

Anonymous said...

they're not so scared to write speeding or seatbelt tickets now are they?