Posted on 05/29/2015 4:09:22 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Did you really think that Baltimore would return to normal after everything that has happened? On Thursday, a mother and her 7-year-old son were both shot in the head in a double murder that has shocked the entire nation. Police believe that the son may have been shot in order to prevent him from identifying the individual that shot his mother. So is this what America is turning into? A place where 7-year-old kids are executed in cold blood? That mother and son were the 37th and 38th murder victims in the city of Baltimore so far this month. That makes this the deadliest month in Baltimore in 15 years, but because of all the controversy surrounding the death of Freddie Gray, police in Baltimore are afraid to do their jobs at this point. In some areas of the city, young men boldly smoke weed in public and wave guns around at innocent bystanders without any worry that police will intervene. Baltimore has descended into a state of lawlessness, and this is just the beginning. As I discussed just the other day, the same kind of lawlessness will soon sweep all across this country.
Have you ever been afraid to step outside of your own home? That is what day to day life is like for many residents of Baltimore right now. In fact, one woman is even barricading her door and setting up metal slabs behind her windows to deflect gunfire. Just check out the following excerpt from a recent news report about what is going on in the city…
“I’m afraid to go outside,” said Antoinette Perrine, whose brother was shot down three weeks ago on a basketball court near her home in the Harlem Park neighborhood of West Baltimore. Ever since, she has barricaded her door and added metal slabs inside her windows to deflect gunfire.
“It’s so bad, people are afraid to let their kids outside,” Perrine said. “People wake up with shots through their windows. Police used to sit on every corner, on the top of the block. These days? They’re nowhere.”
I think that this is an indication of what we can expect from the police when chaos erupts in cities all over America. In some places there will be troops in the streets to maintain order, but in other areas it will be like the wild west.
Right now, police officers in Baltimore are running scared. They know that they are targets, and they know that one mistake can land them in prison or on the front page of newspapers all over the nation. According to Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, there have been times when officers have gone into an area only to be immediately surrounded by “30 to 50 people”…
“Our officers tell me that when officers pull up, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them at any time,” Batts said.
Batts provided more details at a City Council meeting Wednesday night, saying officers now fear getting arrested for making mistakes.
“What is happening, there is a lot of levels of confusion in the police organization. There are people who have pain, there are people who are hurt, there are people who are frustrated, there are people who are angry,” Batts said. “There are people, and they’ve said this to me, `If I get out of my car and make a stop for a reasonable suspicion that leads to probable cause but I make a mistake on it, will I be arrested?’ They pull up to a scene and another officer has done something that they don’t know, it may be illegal, will they be arrested for it? Those are things they are asking.”
The criminals have the upper hand in Baltimore now, and they know it.
Just consider the words of the head of the police union. He says that the police in the city “are under siege”…
“The criminals are taking advantage of the situation in Baltimore since the unrest,” said Gene Ryan, president of the Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3. “Criminals feel empowered now. There is no respect. Police are under siege in every quarter. They are more afraid of going to jail for doing their jobs properly than they are of getting shot on duty.”
Wicomico County Sheriff Mike Lewis made even stronger remarks during a recent appearance on Fox News. He told Sean Hannity that police in Baltimore have been “eviscerated”, “disemboweled”, and have had their “guts removed”…
Wicomico County, MD Sheriff Mike Lewis (R) declared that police officers are “fearful” of doing their jobs on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel.
“Sean, the Baltimore City Police Department, the officers particularly on the street, have been eviscerated, they’ve been disemboweled, their guts removed to have the courage to go out there and do this job. They’re very fearful that if they go out there and be proactive, which we all should be doing in law enforcement today, we can’t afford to be reactive, especially in urban areas. Those officers are no longer being proactive, and as you see, the violence has surged. … And I hope this is a shot fired across the bow of mayors and urban leaders across this country. Once you disembowel your law enforcement officers, then you cannot no longer expect them to go out there and protect you, or protect your communities. This is very troubling the worst I’ve ever seen in 31 years of law enforcement.”
Can you imagine what must be going through the heads of Baltimore police officers at this point?
One wrong move and you could start a riot.
One wrong move and you could go to prison.
One wrong move and you could be on the front page of every newspaper in the country and be labeled the biggest villain in America.
In early April, I publicly stated that civil unrest was coming to Baltimore, and what we are seeing happen there is eventually going to start happening all over the nation. Police are going to start pulling back from the most violent areas and will allow chaos to reign in the streets.
It is only human nature. Police officers are going to be extremely hesitant to risk their lives in communities where they are deeply hated and where they risk ruining their entire lives with a single wrong move.
It is going to take a lot of courage to be a cop in America’s inner cities in the years ahead. Last year, the number of officers “feloniously killed” in the line of duty increased by 89 percent, and things are only going to get worse.
America is changing, and not for the better. As economic conditions deteriorate, many of our major cities are going to turn into war zones. If you are expecting the government to step in and fix things when that happens, you will be deeply disappointed.
This nation is filled with anger and hate, and it is getting worse with each passing day.
I truly wish that things had not turned out this way, but they did. I truly wish that we could just all learn to love one another and live in peace, but it isn’t happening.
The hatred and frustration that are boiling just under the surface in this country are about to explode, and when that happens we will all pay a very great price.
There are many 'people' to blame starting from the snake's diseased head: Obama, Holder and then the clueless voters, like those in Baltimore, who elected incompetent, puffed-up negroes in order to lord it over whitey.
All according to Soros, Jarrett and Barky’s plan.
Further setting the scene for Barry’s domestic army.
How could you write that many words and not mention Obama and Holder ? ( sorry if I missed any mention, I skimmed)
We are reaping the seeds of Political Correctness sown many, many years ago.
They made their own beds.
So long as the suspect has his or her spine intact when they get to the station then probably not.
The solution? National Socialist Police for large cities....
We are watching the deconstruction in real time, both of the public's confidence in the police, and the police's resolve in continuing their duties. With both ends of the candle burning, imagine the flare when the flames meet...
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It’s gonna be a long hot summer.
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Would be very interested to see these numbers.
Baltimore looks like every other place where “brown” people rule the roost...a 3rd world hellhole.
Police can maintain order only of a civilized people.
At this point Baltimore’s crime is clearly NOT a problem of policing, either too much or too little.
Maybe residents, mothers of illegitimate sons who are criminals, etc. will have to finally face up the the facts of where the criminals are coming from.
The riots proved they would rather have black criminals living among them.
Plenty of blame to go around: cops who can’t control themselves and act out against criminals and the public, incompetent politicians, professional racist agitators, and the Criminal in Chief in Washington. The mayor in Baltimore needs to be fired. She is incompetent. The six cops responsible for Gray’s death need to be charged with criminally neglect manslaughter, not murder. The police commissioner in Baltimore needs to be fired. The cops in Baltimore need to be told they WILL return to enforcing the law, and, if they refuse, fire the whole of if them and call in the National Guard to replace them until new recruits are hired. Thugs who act up need to be rounded up and charged under RICO laws with insurgency and riot.
Pretty much what I expected. While the statement is true, it’s wildly and probably intentionally misleading.
51 cops were feloniously killed in 2014, an increase of 89% from 2013. But only because 2013 was an outlier, at the lowest number in 35 years.
The average number killed over this period was 64, so last year was still well below average.
But let’s not let facts stand in the way of making the desired point.
I despise people who try to pull this kind of crap, regardless of how much I agree with their general POV.
Lawlessness? Uh no... it’s transformation.
“American cities are sinking fast and we’ve passed the point where something could have been done about it”
Fifty years of Johnson’s Great Society welfare programs, the destruction of the nuclear family, the dumbing down of public education, unions, corrupt politicians, community organizing, unrestrained immigration, loss of religion, outsourcing of industry, and the left’s disdain for both the work ethic and personal accountability have destroyed the culture and values once held in common by Americans. The core is rotten and anarchy is only the manifestation of a dying society.
True, if they were indeed criminally negligent. Not because the mob demands it.
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