Woke Baltimore mayor's 'violence reduction
strategies' backfire as city sees annual
murder and shooting rates RISE, with 337
killings in 2021
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Andrea Blanco
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/2/2022 12:09:04 PM
Baltimore's woke mayor's calls to defund the police have come back to haunt him after the city's notoriously high murder rate climbed again in 2021. Charm City saw 337 homicides last year, up from 334 in 2020, and well above the 290 that the city's Mayor Brandon Scott had hoped his new 'violence reduction' strategies would bring the homicide rate down to in 2021. 'We can't accept that this life loss is normal,' Scott, who last year led efforts to cut police funding by $22 million as a city councilman before pleading over the spring for $27 million more for the police department, told the Baltimore Sun Times.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Krause 1/2/2022 12:14:42 PM (No. 1026045)
Social justice types should never be running big cities. Or small ones for that matter. Social justice types need direct supervision.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
MDConservative 1/2/2022 12:25:46 PM (No. 1026060)
Baltimore is a "Chocolate City", and is governed according to The Community's standards. This is the result. The reverends preach on Sunday to the loud approval of their congregants, and the gangbangers and wannabes run the streets once church is out and Big Mama is home.
The Baltimore police are effectively on strike, acting as clean-up crews for the carnage since Freddie Gray and the "unrest" created by the Glammayor Rawlings-Blake, States Attorney Marilyn Mosby, and (Republican) Governor Larry Hogan, who gave Malik Shabazz a pass to run demonstrations with his for-hire pros to let out The Community's anger. It all backfired when the sham demo was overrun by the locals who didn't get the message their help was unnecessary. A city burned, and to date not one person has been charged and convicted of anything...it all just happened, you see. Charm City...
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
padiva 1/2/2022 12:37:44 PM (No. 1026076)
I worked with a lady whose husband worked at Johns Hopkins Hospital.
The employees were told not to use/carry their cell phones while walking to/from their cars. They needed to be constantly aware for their surroundings.
Also, when driving and stopping for a stop light (etc), leave enough room in front of your car that you can drive away if you are approached by someone. Always plan for an exit to every situation.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
DVC 1/2/2022 12:42:12 PM (No. 1026084)
When I used to live near DC, 'Balmer' was often called Chocolate Town. Apparently #2 has heard that many decades old nickname, too.
Leftists and socialists in charge means more death, crimes of all kinds. Every single time they get control, this is what happens.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
moebellini3 1/2/2022 1:04:21 PM (No. 1026095)
Just another delusional communist democrat destroying another city. Not only crime, their schools are creating illiterates who can't read, write or do math. This is how the democratic plantation works. In their sick society there are no consequences, no matter what the crime. Failure, after failure, after failure and these hypocrites still don't get it.
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Removing democraps from power is the most effective violence reduction strategy there is.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
red1066 1/2/2022 1:52:41 PM (No. 1026138)
Baltimore is competing with Philly to see which city can have the quickest murder for 2022. Baltimore's entry was killed less than a half hour into the new year. There are now two murders in Baltimore for 2022. Baltimore has had seven straight years of 300+ murders with 337 in 2021.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lazlototh 1/2/2022 3:42:00 PM (No. 1026223)
With NYC at about 470 homicides, Baltimore's murder rate is TEN TIMES NYC's!
If NYC had Baltimore's homicide rate there would be just under 4900 homicides in NYC.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Roscoelewis 1/2/2022 3:56:21 PM (No. 1026233)
Baltimore - The monkey cage at the zoo.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
mossley 1/2/2022 5:10:55 PM (No. 1026283)
I went to college outside of Baltimore and my first jobs were in the city. The writing was on the walls decades ago. At least in the 80s, it was safe to go into the city during the day if you avoided certain sections. I haven't been back in ages and have no intention of ever doing so again.
Personally, I think Kurt Schmoke is responsible for a lot of the city's current troubles. He was the first black mayor, elected in 89. He favored decriminalization of drugs and did what he could to stop enforcement of drug crimes. As a surprise to no one with a working brain, more of the drug trade moved to Baltimore. It started a cycle. Crime rates started going up, white flight sped up, tax revenue dropped so police coverage was curbed. Less police, more crime, more working people left, revenue dropped, police coverage curbed. Repeat until the city rivals something from the Third World.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/2/2022 5:12:30 PM (No. 1026284)
It's not white supremacists doing this killing.
The worst danger to America's Black are America's Blacks.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
navybrat 1/2/2022 5:40:20 PM (No. 1026297)
They could have elected Kim Klacik as their congress person but no. they keep voting in democrats. There is nothing you can do when the residents want to keep crime and decay in the city.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
MickTurn 1/2/2022 9:35:30 PM (No. 1026407)
Woke Dopes might as well be filling up their bowles with BS...Eat Hardy!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Old Army Vet 1/2/2022 9:59:44 PM (No. 1026417)
DimocRATs, socialists, commies, progressives 'etal are the problem that we have. They know nothing about running anything, much less a city or a government. They should never be allowed near anything that requires action that has consequences effecting the public. Horrible at everything they try. Couldn't run a hot dog stand.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mifla 1/3/2022 4:16:06 AM (No. 1026516)
Another blue city. Another disaster.
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Black Brandon didn't defund the police nearly enough; that's the only answer.