If drivers weren’t being kidnapped and raped I might listen to this.

Sorry to burst this bubble neighbors. This is definitely NOT the Walgreens in Highlandtown. I was there this week and it is as chaotic and outdated as always.

Look, a lot of people grew up in Baltimore City and didn’t carjack and rape women in their teens. I’m all for extending sympathy to people committing crimes to survive but what part of rape benefits a young perpetrator? They didn’t have to do that.

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Classic victim blaming. I’m not part of the problem if I’m not carjacking people.

I agree it would have been better to report and I know now for the future to do so. Calling me part of the problem is just weirdly aggressive

Then you are part of the problem.

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This is baltimore?? Haha my 3 year old made me play this over and over so he could yell “its the gingerbread man!!!”

They didn’t pull out any weapon on me, so I was still in denial about what had occurred. I knew something was really off and called my boyfriend because I was scared. I didn’t start really realizing the gravity of the situation until I had driven far away. Now I’d report right away, especially given current events.

It’s considered a tax write off too

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> dash cam paid for itself

FTFY.

Although payed exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:

• Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. The deck is yet to be payed.

• Payed out when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. The rope is payed out! You can pull now.

Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.

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Well that dash cam payed for itself pretty easily

This is delightful.

100% and yet morons will constantly point to responsibility and culture as if those are things that can be forced on people regardless of their situation to somehow fix problems when in reality this issue is generations in the making and will take years if not decades to repair through investment, hard work, and giving people opportunity and hope.

If we really invested in kids right now and built up a massive after school program, and mentor programs and built community centers that offered meals and parent support we could see kids flourish. It wouldn't be cheap but in the long run it's a hell of a lot cheaper than what we are paying for cops and crime.

You can see examples of it all over the place where individual schools get an amazing principal that turns an entire community around just by offering support. Issue is we can't rely on individuals to put in all the time needed to that on their own.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/26/us/tangelo-park-orlando-florida.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/nyregion/08principal.html#:~:text=Waronker%20speaks%20Spanish%3B%20he%20grew,11%2C%20he%20spoke%20no%20English.

First example is just a cash infusion that have hope to families and turned a community around in one generation.

Second example is a single man utilizing his time and skills to fix a failing dangerous school and get buy in from the community at large.

If we took an approach that combined both of these methods and built it out across the city maybe we could start seeing some positive movement away from crime.

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Responsible parents usually means parents who aren't the working poor, who aren't the people who have no choice but to leave kids unattended while they work multiple jobs. Factor in drugs and crime that walk hand in hand with poverty, and that's a recipe for what we have now.

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It's the same bullshit idiots spout about schools and parents. "We just need responsible parents" as if there is some way to magically instill education, responsibility, drive, etc into people.

And that's always in response to we need to spend more on education. So their solution is don't spend any more to improve education or after school programs that will educate children and give them opportunities instead just change the "culture".

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McFarland tends to have a long wait list in my opinion and I personally feel like he is a bit stuck in his ways. He also tends to prefer to do rTSAs which may not be what you need.

A carjacking is a specific type of robbery. Robbery is theft + assault/threat of assault. A carjacking is motor vehicle theft + assault/threat of assault.

Yeah but there is also the simple fact that the kids doing this make up a very small portion of kids in this city who come from virtually identical circumstances, the overwhelming majority of which choose not to victimize other people. This is absolutely a choice and they could have gone another way.

It’s not surprising. Only kids are stupid or crazy enough to do this. Adults have more common sense than racking up kidnapping charges.

You reported this right?