The Baltimore Police have heard the need for less proactive policing.

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Baltimore Cops on Increased Violence: They Wanted a Soft Police Force, Now They Have One

Back in April, rioters, criminals and yes, "peaceful" protestors made it clear they did not want police in their Baltimore neighborhoods. The police took notice.

Since then, violent crime and murders in the Maryland city have skyrocketed. Some stats:

Homicides in 2015 so far stand at 100, up from 71 for the same period last year, and on pace to be the Charm City’s deadliest year since 2007. Nonfatal shootings are up 70 percent this year, following a particularly violent week that saw 19 people shot on Tuesday and Wednesday alone.

Arrests are down, crime is up and cops realize it's just not worth the trouble to go after even the worst criminals, especially when their mayor is willing to give thugs the benefit of the doubt first.

Yesterday, two Baltimore police officers sat down with CNN's Brooke Baldwin to explain the moral inside the Baltimore Police Department and to talk about why officers have decided to take a step back from aggressive policing in the neighborhoods that need it the most.

"We believe there are outside influences such as the activists that request a softer police department. Some of the citizens request a softer police department and now they have the softer police department," a Baltimore police officer, whose identity was masked for fear of retribution, said."The proactive, self-initiated policing has stopped."

"We are now in a reactive mode," another officer said.

As I've always said. The vast majority of anti-cop agitators aren't anti-cop because of police brutality, they're anti-cop because cops interrupt their criminal behavior. Law abiding citizens suffer as a result and criminals rule. Further, if you think citizens can protect themselves, think again. Maryland has some of the strictest gun control laws in the country.

http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiep...they-wanted-us-to-back-off-so-we-did-n2011322

I get that there are some bad cops out there. But now if that were simply the case why has murder and crime skyrocketed since the police have given the community what they wanted: a reactive softer approach?

 

[DFW71]

The police need to be more aggressive and decriminalize drugs so the police can focus on actual crime.

 

[Stagger Lee]

Those people in those neighborhoods are getting what they deserve and asked for.

The real problem is the other genius idea they are doing is to disperse the ghetto into formerly good areas.

Maybe Tenacity could explain again why do they protect and defend criminals? Now they are moving the ghetto/criminal element into other neighborhoods and they expect us and the police to just tolerate this crap?

 

[FairShake]

Those people in those neighborhoods are getting what they deserve and asked for.

Police failing to enforce laws and fight crime is definitely not what Baltimore asked for nor what most people in those neighborhoods deserve.

They want effective policing that doesn't harass the innocent or kill the non-threatening. It's not rocket science and a police force that proclaims to "serve and protect" would serve the people, not it's ego.

 

[LiveFreeX]

Do your own damn policing then if you think you can do a better job. Police are fed up with this bullsh1t. There is nothing that states they must be exemplary in their jobs, they simply need to enforce the laws where they SEE them. America has dealt a critical death blow to its last line of protection. Collapse is on the way fellas.

 

[Jaylan]

Police failing to enforce laws and fight crime is definitely not what Baltimore asked for nor what most people in those neighborhoods deserve.

They want effective policing that doesn't harass the innocent or kill the non-threatening. It's not rocket science and a police force that proclaims to "serve and protect" would serve the people, not it's ego.

Quoted for truth.

However, don't expect much critical thinking for the OP or many others who will post in this bait thread. Some of these guys haven't learned their lesson and now cowardly create sock accounts to stir up discord. Pathetic really.

 

[Tictac]

However, don't expect much critical thinking for the OP or many others who will post in this bait thread. Some of these guys haven't learned their lesson and now cowardly create sock accounts to stir up discord. Pathetic really.

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Quoted for irony.

 

[YawataNoKami]

Police failing to enforce laws and fight crime is definitely not what Baltimore asked for nor what most people in those neighborhoods deserve.

They want effective policing that doesn't harass the innocent or kill the non-threatening. It's not rocket science and a police force that proclaims to "serve and protect" would serve the people, not it's ego.

I have little doubt that when those bike cops approached a drug corner at 8:30 AM on a Sunday, they were well intentioned.

They could have -- and in hindsight *should* have -- sat on their asses drinking coffee while watching middle-class women in fabulous hats go to church.

Instead, they were out there policing, trying to do their job, trying to bring a bit of order to drug corner.

It's inconceivable that they rode up to the corner thinking, "who can I kill today"? Now we don't know what exactly happened after Gray ran, but clearly things went south. Gray died while in police custody.

Some of the anti-police anger isn't just about Gray's death, but the culmination of the fact that police are out there "harassing" "innocent" people in the first place. If police activity, enforcement of drug crimes, *are* the problem (rather than an inevitable consequence of the war of drugs), then the solution is that police don't get any situation unless the good people of the city call 911 to report a problem.

Every year in Baltimore 100-plus murders go unsolved. Every year, 100-plus murderers are hanging out on stoops and corners. Liberals in particular, I find, seem to think that bullets just magically fly into people's bodies when poverty and racism and hopelessness reach some arbitrary level. Liberals, somewhat ironically, do not give agency to criminals. Like the acts that lead to homicide -- everything from the motive to the gun to approaching a victim to pulling the trigger to being a lucky shot -- are preordained by the Almighty himself.


How did that "gang truce" work out?