#4 The past mayor and future gov Martin O’Malley (Democrat) had 100,000 arrests in Baltimore out of 640,000 people. More than 20,000 people were released without being charged by prosecutors. It looks like the people in charge of the city arrest people for anything. This would be a future police state if you elect democrats.
Excerpt from an article:
In 2005, the Police Department made more than 100,000 arrests in a city of 640,000 people. The following year, the NAACP and the ACLU sued the city on behalf of 14 people, alleging that their arrests indicated a broad pattern of abuse in which thousands of people were routinely arrested without probable cause.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-omalley-speech-facts-20150418-story.html#page=2
Yeah. O’Malley was trying to channel Giuliani’s success in New York with “broken window” enforcement...no crime too small.
He rode that to being governor. But like all excesses, it has its downside: some day you gonna go over the top, not come back to Earth so lightly.
The cops end up becoming an occupying force with orders to body slam everyone for anything. The prosecutors become fiction writers as they fabricate charge after charge on the thinnest of legal theories.
And everyone caught in the cross fire just leave. So the only people left are the two warring parties: the small time criminals and their antagonists the cops.
Bet downtown Baltimore is a ghost town at night after the productive class escapes to the burbs.