Events in Baltimore Reflect a ‘Slow-Rolling Crisis’ Across U.S., Obama Says

New York Times ^ | April 28, 2015 | JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

[dfwgator]

These rioters don’t give a s—t about the dead guy.

[BerryDingle]

Quote from 1911:

[GraceG]

Some youtubers have WAY too much time on their hands.

True, but I find the whole AARP commercial weird the way they have that stuff inhthe background when they didn’t even need to have it on there or could have uses randome background noise instead.

[txrefugee]

Race relations have never been worse than during Obama rule. Tearing down American families is a tactic Democrats have used to gain control over the states. They are the curse of our wicked culture.

[demshateGod]

Very well stated indeed. Openness, transparency, evenly applied laws: all the hallmarks of the Obama administration. It’s good to realize that all those words means something different to leftists.

[BenLurkin]

I think it is random. The subtitles are the product of somebody's over-active imagination. But I could be wrong.

[skeeter]

Without a doubt the charge of 'racism' is being used by the statists to strip away liberties and turn the country into a police state.

The sooner people stop being intimidated by the charge the better.

[GraceG]

First I heard it was without any subtitiles on anopther radio program and I heard the work clearly “Martial Law Declared”.....

Either they yanked the sound clip from a Movie that has the sound clip in it (which could mean they are in trouble to pilfering a sound clip from a movie) , or they placed it there intentionally...

[AppyPappy]

No but he was the catalyst.

[BerryDingle]

Mr. Obama showed flashes of anger during what was apparently a carefully thought-out response to the events in Baltimore. As he has before, the president bristled at what he argued was the news media’s habit of focusing on dramatic images of brutality and chaos rather than on what have been mostly peaceful protests in Baltimore and other cities.

Horse crap! yoMama's ultimate goal is the federal takeover of local police departments and Martial law for the whole country.

[ExTxMarine]

That small number of case many not be as small as you think.

BS! Police interact with the public daily! That's each officer interacting with dozens of citizens in each eight (8) hour work shift, compared to how many incidents? If you chose 20 in the last week, statistically, in any town with over 5K citizens, that would be a negligible percentage at BEST, and how many of those are complete BS claims?

I am NOT a police apologizer. I hate bad cops; just posted a video of a bad stop on facebook yesterday and got into an argument with a guy who says he is a cop. Bottom line, the video showed a BAD and unlawful stop - PERIOD. Cop should be disciplined for such actions.

But, the number of people that are "brutalized" by the police is a small number. Period!

Some of the pundits have been saying that this has been a long-simmering issue with police brutality in Baltimore, including more than 109 complaints in the last year. Well, lets assume that EVERY complaint was real and correct - the police "acted stupidly." In Baltimore, just based on the population NOT THE ACTUAL NUMBER OF INTERACTIONS, which is MUCH higher than the actual population, but just the population numbers, that means that the police "acted stupidly" to 0.017% of their citizens.

With numbers like that, this isn't a "slow-rolling crisis," this is a "glacial-moving crisis" that is being BLOWN OUT OF PROPORTION!

[Repeal The 17th]

“...Race relations have never been worse...”
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They were worse once, and then they got better, and then they got worse again.

[NormsRevenge]

He is actually speaking a truth.. there is a slow rolling crisis and he is leading it over the edge of the precipice into chaos and mayhem as a daily ritual..

[BenLurkin]

I’ll go with ripped it off.

It happens:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_scream

and even more fun:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nG3N5E1epAI

And who knows — maybe they paid.

[jeffersondem]

“Slow-rolling crisis.”

In other words, it's Bush's fault.

[petro45acp]

cloward piven schlep toward the reichstag ...

KYPD

[skeeter]

lol. Exactly right. His nonstop race baiting had nothing to do with it.

[Gator113]

Indeed, and that monster has my undivided attention.

[jonrick46]

Zer0 certainly had enough time to fix the problem. When high unemployment in the inner cities causes people to shift to lawless activities, you create a cancer that will affect everything it touches. Zer0, with his racist Attorney General, Eric Holder, thought he could never to let a serious crisis go to waste. By not addressing the root problem, which any clear thinking person understands, he has allowed a toxic situation to develop that is costing this nation $trillion. Think of the costs to Baltimore as they endure the chaos. Think of the havoc that the illegal culture is spewing across this nation. Take just burglary. According to Morgan Reynolds (Texas A&M University) there are more that 500,000 burglaries committed a month in the United States. According to the FBI, the average dollar loss per burglary in the U.S. is $2,185. The annual cost of burglary is $13.110 billion.

According to an article written in the by economist, David A. Anderson in the October issue of the University of Chicago's Journal of Law and Economics, the cost of is around $1.7 trillion. Anderson's study, entitled "The Aggregate Burden of Crime," estimates all of the direct and indirect costs of every type of crime for the entire nation. In addition to expenses commonly associated with unlawful activity, it considers costs that have not been previously included. Beyond the expenses of the legal system, victim losses and crime-prevention agencies, Anderson adds factors such as the opportunity costs of time lost by victims, criminals and prisoners, as well as the cost of private deterrence and losses due to the fear of being victimized.

The net loss of $1.1 trillion, which does not include the value of transfers from victims to criminals as would result from theft or fraud, represents an annual per capita burden of $4,118. This total cost figure of $1.7 trillion closely compares to the total expenditures on life insurance ($1.68 trillion), the outstanding mortgage debt to commercial institutions ($1.85 billion) and annual expenditures on health ($1.03 billion).

Yes, the elephant in the room is crime triggered by government's effect on jobs due to excessive regulations.

Sen. Mike Lee tweets this photo of his 2013 Federal Register bookcase. And says, “Behold my display of the 2013 Federal Register: 80,000 pages of regulations…” With that many new restrictions on freedom, it’s a wonder the federal government still lets us leave the house.

[TADSLOS]

Slow Rolling Obama Doctrine in play.