even less people become criminals when they don't have to worry where their next meal is coming from, or when they are able to have a home, transportation, and an actual job option.

The fucking entitlement in this thread is amazing, and the sad part is - 10 years ago I'd think example the same as you lot.

You're right, let's just have all crime stop.

Problem solved.

Most poor people actually don't become criminals.

Oooorrrrr... Crime and punishment isn't the solution to begin with, as I said. You can make all the excuses you want, but you can't say that strategy is working.

Particularly when they're high-school aged or above.

Any amount of snow accumulation is bad news here. Snow removal budget is minimal at best so plows are always slow to respond and don't do a great job

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I'm from the Pacific Northwest. When an inch falls in Portland or Seattle people lose their MINDS. No one knows how to drive in snow and ice and frankly it's safer to stay inside if you can. I hear it's similar here in Bmore

Having grown up in New England, snow isn't that great. Especially here, where no one knows what to do with it.

just wait; the temp is supposed to drop about 25 degrees over the course of the day tomorrow (when it will still be raining).

I’m grateful for no snow, considering I like to risk my life and drive to and from work.

That's kind of the point... We're not convicting, and when we do, not for long enough for it to make a difference.

And how's that working out so far? Is it under control?

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Agreed, this is why you almost never draw from the drop. In a situation you just described, best to just comply and let them take your car.

With that said, this article refers to kidnappings and rapes, in these cases ccw gives you additional options to improve your chances of survival.

Either way situational awareness is key.

Hmm, both the Bolton Hill and Greater Mondawmin numbers on the map in this article disagree with the ones on this Baltimore City Planning Department map, and even just going on shape of the tract it looks like the boundaries match. Do wish the article did the Google Maps overlay like the BCPD map.

Anyway, I hope the City at least follows through with some of the Druid Hill road diet stuff to give Mondawmin residents better pedestrian access to the zoo and the rest of Druid Hill Park (this sadly is one initiative that is probably not helped by the neighborhood skewing older).

They're always underemployed. The pharmacist is always on hold with someone and the other employees seemingly don't have the power to do much.

That is a generational approach. You still need to react to the situation at hand to get things under control.

It's hard to car jack people from prison.

I don't really know how you'd draw from concealment while being car jacked. Presumably the guns are on you before you're even aware, trying to draw in that situation just seems like a good way to catch a bullet.

There we go! Proud of you for overcoming your fears and being more straightforward about your racist prejudice. I get why it's shameful, but you don't want to be a moron and a coward, do you?

You could give everyone in Baltimore city a million dollars tomorrow and we could still rack 300 murders next year. Wtf else is there to explain?

I think they mean the poverty, hopelessness, poor education, lack of jobs, lack of parenting, and glorification of being "tough" over being a good, kind, productive person. Address those things and the crime rate will likely go down. I got no idea how you do it.

Technically they don’t. It’s proven that the parts of their brains that understand long term consequences and control impulse are underdeveloped. Hence why the drinking age is 21 and the U.S. military likes to recruit kids.

>Blaming brain development is just a excuse. My 11 and 7 year old kids know not to steal cars and rape people. Thats not going to change with they become 17. Its not a brain thing, its a how they were raised thing

Were they raised in an environment where parents were around to show them love and affection?

Were they raised in a relatively stable household with food, clothing, and electricity/shelter?

No, we aren't. I was referring to the carjacking itself and/or robbery.

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There's never an excuse for rape.

Oh, totally agree with anything past the carjacking/robbery.