Posted on 08/24/2019 7:40:07 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
With the number of murders in Baltimore quickly approaching 300 (as it’s done annually for the past several years) and the total number of shootings nearing 700, interim Mayor Jack Young took a meeting with Governor Larry Hogan this week to ask for help. His Police Commissioner also attended. While everyone agreed that the subject was important and the meeting was productive, it remains to be seen what more the state can actually do if leaders in Baltimore aren’t willing to take steps to help themselves. (Baltimore Sun)
Baltimore’s mayor and police commissioner met for more than an hour Friday with Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, seeking more state support for fighting crime in the city amid a surging rate of gun violence.
Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young asked Hogan for more state police deployments in the city, more staff for parole and probation in Baltimore and the release of $7 million in funding for technology upgrades in the Baltimore Police Department.
Hogan, Young and Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison all called the meeting at the governor’s Baltimore office “productive.”
Hogan reportedly was open to freeing up more money and cooperation with state police to bolster law enforcement in the city. But he also had a list of his own “suggestions” for ways Baltimore could better cope with the surging gun violence. Sadly, many of his proposals involve legislation that’s already been shot down at the municipal level and stalled at the state level, largely because of resistance from legislators from the greater Baltimore region.
For their part, the Mayor and the Police Commissioner mostly are asking for more money and to have state police pick up some of the required duties in the city. Asking for more money is nothing new and better cooperation between state and municipal law enforcement is certainly a worthy goal. But we should remember that most of the initiatives that might actually help curb gang violence have already been defeated.
Just this week we saw the same Police Commissioner who was in that meeting turn down a program what would have put three video surveillance planes up over the city to track violent criminals. And it would have been absolutely free to taxpayers.
Part of the money they are asking for would be slated for technology upgrades. That sounds great, but even the facial recognition technology they have in place right now is under fire and Baltimore’s own congressman, Elijah Cummings, is fighting to get it banned.
When the city attempted to pass tougher laws for gun crimes, particularly for first-time offenders, the City Council rejected it almost unanimously. A similar state law failed when it garnered almost zero support from the Democrats representing the Baltimore region.
How is the Governor supposed to help Baltimore when the city refuses to help itself? Everyone is focused on making sure the police don’t have “too much power” while they watch an epidemic of gang violence spiraling out of control.
Waiting to read the screaming headlines in my morning newspaper or see the top of the evening news reports about the rampant gun violence in Baltimore. Which I suspect I’ll see the day after seeing the same about the goings-on in Chicago.
Not holding my breath waiting for either to happen, however.
Freedom was awesome
Mr. Young, declare Baltimore an open carry city...if good guy citizens carry their guns, bad guys thugs would not shoot theirs...an armed society is a polite society...
Part of the money they are asking for would be slated for technology upgrades. That sounds great, but even the facial recognition technology they have in place right now is under fire and Baltimore’s own congressman, Elijah Cummings, is fighting to get it banned.
When the city attempted to pass tougher laws for gun crimes, particularly for first-time offenders, the City Council rejected it almost unanimously. A similar state law failed when it garnered almost zero support from the Democrats representing the Baltimore region...
This is easy to understand if you realize that nearly the entire voting population of Baltimore is some kind of criminal, thug, or at least has criminal family members.
They want civilized society to help them perpetuate the idea that soft on crime programs, paid by someone else, will solve their problem that only strict law enforcement can.
They are living in a culture that they created.
Quit the victim BS and quit making excuses for criminals.
If you are not willing to hold criminals accountable they you are making the choice to live with their crimes in the future.
I have zero sympathy for any of them.
Not only that, they can’t be helped by the application of WASP culture. Years ago Camden NJ did the same thing (asked for help from the state), and State Troopers were sent in. They quickly had a number of justified shootings, and were withdrawn (no mass protests, because they were justified - open combat with the feral Simbas - just withdrawn because they would have killed many more of the inhabitants “cleanly”).
Now the city is NJ’s Detroit - a dead city.
Let the liberals live in their filth.
We’re the ones who PAY. Why else do we exist, save to fund government?
The only possible solution fir Baltimore is for the Governor to take over the government of Baltimore and fire all officials.
A governing tribunal reporting to the governor can be established to receive and disburse all funds. State police shall come in and take over all administration
He just wants the $7 million dollars! Screw everything else.
How about suing the $7 million to fund a tip line and reward for turning in a gang banger.
Start a "Stop and Frisk" policy.
Put guys with guns in jail for a LONG time.
This would be a good start. Having a gun on the street should be a bad idea for the bad guy. Not a good idea.
I wrote the same letter to the RINO Governor
Throwing and endless stream of money at them won’t help anything. It has to do with self responsibility. A hundred volunteers can come in with a fleet of garbage trucks and they can clean a neighborhood up but give the residents a week and it’ll look just like it did before.
If the kids want to get an education to better themselves, it falls on them to sit and listen in class instead of causing problems.
If the adults want make their kids’ lives better than what they had, then put down the drugs and get a job. Make sure the kids get up, dressed and off to school on time with their completed homework. Then, make sure the kids come home and do their homework and chores instead of hanging on the street corner dealing drugs and selling their bodies.
If they want a clean neighborhood, then clean up their own garbage. Cooperate with the police to run the gangs out or move to a decent neighborhood. There’s nothing holding any parent to living in the ghetto.
Folks should check out what passes for a budget in Baltimordor. It makes for interesting reading.
We agree - I try to help people if they need it - but only when they’re trying to help themselves. If they don’t want to help themselves, no amount of outside assistance is gonna do any good. As you say, if they’re not interested in cleaning up their own problems then they’ll just fill in their neighborhood ( and lives) with krap again after we do a cleanup “for” them
Based on 2017 state test scores, 13 out of 39 high school had zero students proficient in math, the report said. Another six schools had only one percent of their students who tested proficient in math.
The charter schools are doing just fine. I don’t think it’s just the kids’ fault.
Affirmative action educators. Got a certificate for skin pigment.
When I first moved to Maryland, I learned that for every teacher hired for the classroom , one was hired in an administrative position.
Since then teachers I know are complaining about how much extra paper work they have to do. I think it’s safe to assume that means even MORE administrators!
More administrators, more teachers union members, more money to the DNC.
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