Posted on 05/29/2015 1:18:02 PM PDT by KeyLargo
Anarchy in Baltimore: Residents claim police have deserted them in wake of Freddie Gray riots as murder rate soars to highest in 15 years
Jennifer Jeffrey, 31, and son Kester 'Tony' Browne, 8, were killed Thursday They became the city's 37th and 38th homicide victims this month Residents have barricaded their doors in fear of ongoing violence Some have compared parts of the city to the Wild West Others have said virtually no police have been on the streets since riots Arrests are down almost 50 per cent on the same time last year Police claim they are being met with 'hostility' during confrontations
By Wills Robinson For Dailymail.com and Associated Press Reporter
Published: 08:38 EST, 29 May 2015 | Updated: 15:05 EST, 29 May 2015
As one of the city's deadliest months comes to an end, terrified residents have compared parts of Baltimore to the Wild West.
In the wake of the Freddie Gray riots, families have barricaded themselves inside their homes, too afraid to leave, while those on the streets walk around wielding guns - because there are allegedly no police around to arrest them.
Arrested are down 50percent and homicides are at their highest level in 15 years. In the Western District, there have been more murders in the first five months of this year than in all of 2014.
Neighborhoods such as West Baltimore, which had seen heavy policing because of endemic drug and gang violence in recent years, have experienced a reversal, with citizens claiming they have been virtually abandoned.
But embattled law enforcement officials claim they are 'under siege' from criminals taking advantage of the unrest, while officers complain they are met with hostility while policing certain areas.
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They may have but when you're dealing with your Baltimores and Chicagos that is a whole different animal.
Imagine the NYPD and de Blasio or Houston and their lesbian mayor.
Indeed -”Wild West” ? The per capita murder rate in Tombstone, AT. in 1881 was dwarfed by the per capita murder rate of Los Angeles in any single year since records have been kept
"That's a BINGO son"
"You win a cigar!"
John Adams said we needed a new country because Americans of his day were a separate race of people.
What he have now is Obama and Holder's "fundamental transformation" of the American Experience - nice
“Why didn’t the Ferguson, Cleveland and other similar area police departments do this?”
The other cities didn’t have a racist SAG who falsely charged the police.
Something for all of us to think about.....This is a great piece written by a retired United Airlines Captain.
Please read to the end....
We Are All Flying on the Germanwings Plane ... Will we Just wait in
the ‘Crash Position’ ?? The Captain was locked out of the cockpit.
That phrase finally revealed the full horror of the crash of
Germanwings flight 9525. Co-pilot Andreas Lubitz waited for the
pilot to leave the cockpit, then locked the door to prevent his
re-entry. After which Lubitz, for reasons unknown and perhaps
unknowable, deliberately steered the jet into a harrowing 8-minute
plunge ending in an explosive 434 mph impact with a rocky
mountainside. 150 men, women and children met an immediate,
unthinkably violent death.
Lubitz, in his single-minded madness, couldn’t be stopped because
anyone who could change the jet’s disastrous course was locked out.
It’s hard to imagine the growing feelings of fear and helplessness that
the passengers felt as the unforgiving landscape rushed up to meet them.
Hard ... but not impossible.
Because America is in trouble. We feel the descent in the pits of our
stomachs. We hear the shake and rattle of structures stressed
beyond their limits. We don’t know where we’re going anymore, but do
know it isn’t good. And above all, we feel helpless because Barack
Obama has locked us out.
He locked the American people out of his decision to seize the
national healthcare system. Locked us out when we wanted to know why
the IRS was attacking conservatives. He locked us out of having a
say in his decision to tear up our immigration laws, and to give over
a trillion dollars in benefits to those who broke those laws.
Obama locked out those who advised against premature troop
withdrawals. Locked out the intelligence agencies who issued warnings
about the growing threat of ISIS. He locked out anyone who could have
interfered with his release of five Taliban terror chiefs in return
for one U.S. military deserter.
And, of course, Barack Obama has now locked out Congress, the American
people, and our allies as he strikes a secret deal with Iran to
determine the timeline (not prevention) of their acquisition of
nuclear weapons.
Was Andreas Lubitz depressed, insane, or abysmally evil when he
decided to lock that cockpit door and listen to no voices other than
those in his head? Did he somehow believe himself to be doing the
right thing?
The voice recordings from the doomed aircraft reveal that as the jet
began its rapid descent, the passengers were quiet. There was probably
some nervous laughter, confusion, a bit of comforting chatter with
seatmates, followed by a brief period in which anxiety had not yet
metastasized into terror.
It was only near the end of the 8-minute plunge that everyone finally
understood what was really happening. Only near the end when they
began to scream.
Like those passengers, a growing number of Americans feel a helpless
dread as they come to the inescapable conclusion that our nation’s
decline is an act of choice rather than of chance. The choice of one
man who is in full control of our 8-year plunge.
A man who has locked everyone out.
If you aren’t screaming yet ... you should be !!!!
“Neighborhoods which have experienced excessive policing in recent years have seen a reversal with residents claiming they have been abandoned by law enforcement”
First there’s complaints about supposed “excessive policing”, whatever that is, and now complaints about being “abandoned” by police. Make up your minds West Baltimorian dwellers, this isn’t Goldy Locks and The Three Bears where there’s a police porridge with the exact right temperature.
Another straw dog: If you don’t like what the cops are doing, then you do the job. That is not how it works: if you fired a lot of cops, there are already 10 people in line for each job. The reality is cops do their job or give it up to cops who will.
Cops don’t work for the mayor, they work for their fellow citizens. Mayors come and go. IF those cops are not guilty, then they will be set free. What are you saying? Cops don’t believe in the justice system fellow brothers in blue but are willing to put anyone else in the system? The Mayor did not arrest, charge or indict any of the cops. A grand jury indicted them.
If you know that you may be criminally prosecuted by a racist because you and she don’t share the same definition of a law, you might be more reluctant to do your job. This prosecutor did not acknowledge Baltimore City code and falsely accused these officers of making a false arrest. She is now claiming an unlawful detention which is also a bogus charge. The current administration and its “Justice Dept.” are doing their utmost to demoralize and gut police depts. across this country. These neighborhoods wanted the police gone and now they have their wish.
“The mayor said her office is ‘examining’ the relationship between the homicide spike and the dwindling arrest rate.”
I wonder if she’ll set up a couple of citizen commissions that’ll take a few months to ‘examine’ this and then write a several hundred page report that is inclusive? Because this is clearly a murky, ill-defined situation. To anyone under 5 years of age, below 70 IQ, or a Democrat, but I repeat myself.
“Bring out your dead?”
Monty Python.
“a better comparison is Rwanda. the same people are involved in both places”
Hutus and Tutsis slaughtering each other?
It’s a real simple matter: any government employee and/or bureaucrat pretty much gets paid whether they work or not, and it’s pretty easy to go through the motions enough to not get fired. Only the truly motivated actually work. They work because they believe in what they do, that they make a difference, and/or for self respect. But if your bosses throw up enough obstacles, then even good, self-motivated employees give up and say, “Fuck it, I get paid the same whether I work or not”.
It’s exactly the same for cops, except their jobs are several times more difficult than the average bureaucrat or government employee, especially in inner city ghettos, and believe me, if a cop is told to stand down and “give space to destroy” and then expects to be arrested for “false imprisonment” or “illegal arrest” for making a mistake, then hey, the solution is real simple, don’t arrest anyone. Just answer your radio calls and do the minimum expected. After all, no one can really prove you’re not being “proactive”.
I’m with the Baltimore cops 100% on this one. And I hope they keep doing what they are doing now until they get a new police commissioner, a new mayor, and a new state’s attorney, ALL of whom back the cops 100%. Until then, clock in, respond to radio calls, clock out, and collect your paycheck. Baltimore is not imploding because the police abandoned the people, Baltimore is imploding because the people abandoned the cops.
Not to worry.
The Mayor will put the cops on trial before a 'Citizens Commission', where they will be found guilty and hanged. 
Back in the olden days (1968) cops would not answer a call in certain parts of town because it was (actual quote from 1968 LIFE magazine) “Just nig*ers cutting up.”
Too funny!
‘THE WIRE’
QUOTE: D’Angelo Barksdale: “You think 5-0 care about ni__ers gettin’ high? In the *projects*? Man, 5-0 be down here about the *bodies*, yo. That’s what they be down here about. The bodies.”
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