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Baltimore faces severe policing shortages, leaving neighborhoods underserved and calls unanswered.
Citizen Watch Report ^

Posted on 03/25/2024 2:47:32 PM PDT by davikkm

Baltimore is in the throes of a policing apocalypse, and the situation is nothing short of apocalyptic. Last week, just THREE police officers were left to patrol an entire district teeming with 61,000 residents. Let that sink in.

Calls for help, including reports of child assault, are going unanswered because the police simply can't keep up. It's a dire state of affairs when law enforcement is unable to respond to the most basic calls for assistance.

Adding insult to injury, the department is now forced to postpone police training in a desperate bid to address the severe shortages. But how did we get here?

(Excerpt) Read more at citizenwatchreport.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: anarchotyranny; baltimore; crime; dystopia; maryland; policing; shortages
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1 posted on 03/25/2024 2:47:32 PM PDT by davikkm
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You’d be a complete moron to want to be a cop in any blue city. Moron to the 10th power to be a cop in Baltimore....


2 posted on 03/25/2024 2:49:44 PM PDT by freebilly
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To: davikkm

Committees of Vigilance....


3 posted on 03/25/2024 2:50:24 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: davikkm

The answer is to disband a useless and habitually criminal police department and to declare Constitutional Carry in immediate effect.

And tell the criminals to depart to New York City where it’ll be safe for them to loot, burn, rape, rob, and murder.


4 posted on 03/25/2024 2:50:40 PM PDT by MeganC ("Russians are subhuman" - posted by Kazan 8 March 2024)
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To: davikkm

As I’ve said on a previous thread, this is a great opportunity to eliminate drug dealers, rapists, shoplifters and thieves. A slowed or nonexistent police presence gives you plenty of time to hide evidence or bodies.


5 posted on 03/25/2024 2:51:12 PM PDT by nonliberal (Z.)
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To: davikkm

Democrat cities will default to how it is in South America. Cities will be controlled by gangs who extort protection money. Houses will be surrounded by ugly concrete fences with broken glass sunk in the top to keep people from climbing over. Cops, if they work, will be corrupt as all get out and work for the gangs. Welcome to the favela. Get out while you still can.


6 posted on 03/25/2024 3:00:15 PM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: freebilly

I’ve known two Baltimore cops. Now both are former Baltimore cops.

One was recruited from Puerto Rico. He told me it was safer there than in Baltimore.

The other was a sergeant. Everyone in his command quit before him or about the same time.


7 posted on 03/25/2024 3:16:03 PM PDT by cyclotic (Don’t be part of the problem. Be the entire problem)
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To: davikkm

What? They need to hire more “restorative justice” types?


8 posted on 03/25/2024 3:17:29 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: davikkm

One word: Freddie Gray


9 posted on 03/25/2024 3:19:18 PM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: Paladin2

“Committees of Vigilance....”

The Godfather may be making a comeback. Sounds like there’s going to be a high demand for “protection”.


10 posted on 03/25/2024 3:19:36 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: davikkm

SSS


11 posted on 03/25/2024 3:20:11 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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2A Protect YOURSELF


12 posted on 03/25/2024 3:22:36 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: PGalt

Sounds like Haiti.


13 posted on 03/25/2024 3:27:18 PM PDT by Col Frank Slade
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To: davikkm

Enjoy the suck, ass clowns.


14 posted on 03/25/2024 3:36:35 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (THE ISSUE IS NEVER THE ISSUE. THE REVOLUTION IS THE ISSUE.)
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To: davikkm
The last Republican mayor of Baltomore left office in 1967. This has been one of those "triumphs" of the Democrat Party.

"Brandon Maurice Scott (born April 8, 1984)[1] is an American politician serving as the mayor of Baltimore, Maryland, since 2020. The city of Baltimore uses a strong mayor-council structure for their government, meaning Scott holds strong mayoral powers." And "While serving as city councilperson, he voted against an aerial surveillance program for the Baltimore Police Department and supported reductions in police funding."

Brandon Scott

"The Oakland Police Department has been under a consent decree for nearly 20 years. A staffing plan calls for 2,785 sworn officers, but city police had 2,398 members on payroll in recent months"

Police staffing woes complicate reform effort in Baltimore

Baltimore police union overwhelmingly rejects contract proposal after ‘impasse’ with city

15 posted on 03/25/2024 3:43:56 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: davikkm

YGWYVF


16 posted on 03/25/2024 3:46:27 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: davikkm

Liberals are asking “WHY?”


17 posted on 03/25/2024 3:57:30 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE ONCE every 3 months-is that a big deal?)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Which is worse? Baltimore or Memphis.

The same blue cities always jockey for position on the city crime lists.


18 posted on 03/25/2024 4:17:40 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: davikkm

Means that they are now in the running for the title: Death City USA, look out Chicago.


19 posted on 03/25/2024 4:27:01 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (We used to be a Republic, we are now a Fascist Klepto-Thugocracy.)
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To: Col Frank Slade

Yes, when the thin blue line is gone civilization breaks down. Jimmy Barbecue moving north next?


20 posted on 03/25/2024 4:28:54 PM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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