Had a great time at Mother's! Will probably go back on Sunday too. Is it still busy during away games too?

We've seen what happens. People cried about too much police presence in their neighborhoods. So BPD did as they said and lessened patrols. The crime rate then skyrocketed. So then people bitch that BPD isn't doing their jobs. They can't win.

My heart breaks for you and your friend. Despite the reasoning for this act of violence, it’s sad what Baltimore City has become. I’m old enough to remember the way it use to be, now I worry for everyone that must live or work within this realm of unlawfulness.

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My apartment was filled with black mold from a leak behind drywall they wouldn’t fix. It was right next to my air intake so it went to the rest of the apartment. I also had a massive leak in my bathroom due to all of this. They would come out and drain the leak but not fix. I would have 5 gallons of water if I fell asleep for a few hours. It was horrendous. I got into numerous fights with them to fix it or let me out of my lease. Showed pictures of the mold, I was getting incredibly sick and they still wanted a lease termination fee of at least 2000! I threatened with a lawyer and finally they “did a one time thing” of “allowing us to leave with no penalty.”

This was in 2014 but I still feel like they owe me money

I’m so sorry to learn of this horror. May humanity see the healing it so desperately needs. Sending love.

Your ✌️point✌️ is that one part of an opinion poll reflects the unmovable sentiment of a group of people you never interact with. I told you why this point was flawed:

-The conflicting sentiment in the poll itself

-Polling around new ideas move. A lot. Again, if this were 1960, you'd be using a poll to explain that Black people really want everyone to stop demonstrating. And that would have been an idiotic thing to propose.

The idea that American policing is a failure took seed and germinated in Black communities..places where those failures are most plainly manifest. So to be all "sEe ThEy wAnT cOpS bEcAuSe tHiS pOlL sEz So" is oblivious white guy shit. You're like a caricature of a privileged gentrifier lol. If this were 1990 you'd be the "some of my friends are Black" guy.

Anyway, there's no quick policing solution to elevated crime rates. There's only ineffective, reactionary bullshit that further victimizes marginalized people. Relying on cops to address society's structural deficiencies is dead. I feel like more privileged white people need to get slaughtered by cops before yall fucking get it. I mean, it took an opioid epidemic tearing through the burbs for you all to rethink our punitive approach to drug addiction.

What the fuck is up with people not understanding BPD is not BCPD? Baltimore is not Baltimore County.

"I have no idea the context of this photo..." Proceeds to put their own narrative on it lmfao. What a time to be alive, everyone so full of ignorance.

The "MFing" crime rate is proof that Baltimore is trash, not that the PD is garbage.

RIP H

No no no, you misunderstand:

When the crime rate is high, it's because the cops are doing their best but the city isn't giving them enough money.

When the crime rate is low, it's because the cops are doing a great job and should be rewarded with more money.

Hope that clears things up.

Just another innocent child dragged down by this city.

So instead of them just driving up and down your street, instead you want them wildly running from the cops up and down your street?

Doing what? Protecting people? Or finding excuses to add to their monthly quota?

You mean the "tax base" that gets all the fancy new roads, the nicest schools, the stop signs and traffic lights, the new shopping center permits, oh and as you just admitted, actual police protection? Sounds like they're the ones getting all the stuff bud.

Hey cops harass and detain people every day on less. Turnabout is fair play.

Lol yeah because they're working real hard to respond to those 911 calls quickly as it is

Oh no, you mean they'd have to stand on their feet for most of their workday? Like some pathetic retail workers???

Yeah dude we get it, you're a cop.

At least then we’d have their faces instead of cars

I read about that on a Facebook page and I’m so sorry for your friend, I can’t imagine what she is going through. The post I saw said police don’t think it was a random shooting, if that’s even a remote possibility I hope your friend is staying somewhere safe. It breaks my heart that things have gotten so bad.

plenty of police support in r/baltimore, an example being the upvotes above and the fierce support for jhupd

Fair enough. Thank you.

It seems that you're the one who is proving my point. The fact that black people don't think that cops will treat them fairly but STILL want them in their neighborhoods clearly shows that they believe cops can prevent and address crime. That's the only logical way to reconcile the 81% figure and the 75% figure. I don't buy that that large of majority of black people have no idea what they're talking about, and that's what you want me to believe.

I think we've gone back and forth about policing enough. We're not going to change each other's minds. But, I do genuinely want to know if you have any ideas for addressing the murder rate in the near to mid term. To put some rough numbers on that, how do we get under 200 murders in 5 years' time? Do you even think that's possible?

Did they decline to arrest him or did he get out on bail? Some of the wording in this quote is confusing. You can’t just “hold” someone for extended periods of time without charging them.

Not being able to read the rest of the story some of this does sound like a prosecutor who’s not interested in fighting for a victim. The fact that he admitted, unless the police fucked up in a profound way that would get the admission excluded, should have made it much easier.

But I also want to point out that juries rely extremely heavily on witness identification. This is not a good thing as witness identifications are generally awful. However, the victim not being able to identify the man can be hugely problematic, especially with a juries over reliance on witness ID’s. She may have described his clothing head to toe, but if it’s generic clothing a defense attorney can have a field day.

sorry not that I know of. but if you join one of the south east facebook groups there's probably a number of posts on it.