Apparently keller, pops, little billy and that crowd of liberals are either unable or unwilling to offer an explanation for what is happening in Baltimore.
Other than to insult me they have nothing to offer the thread.
Can any liberal here articulate an opinion as to why this is going on?
the prosecutor is cute.
is that offering anything? 
Apparently keller, pops, little billy and that crowd of liberals are either unable or unwilling to offer an explanation for what is happening in Baltimore.
Other than to insult me they have nothing to offer the thread.Can any liberal here articulate an opinion as to why this is going on?
What have you offered , other than bullish!t and stupidity?
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Bullsh!t?
Denial of the facts is so liberal.
You won’t take responsibility for the Democrats failure of leadership and disastrous programs that have cost the tax-payers billions and produced no results other than keeping poverty alive and well.
The liberals scream for more funding for schools and job-training. Baltimore has the second highest per-capita spending in the nation along with a 50% dropout rate. Most Baltimore high school “graduates” (pushed via fraudulent test scores) cannot write a resume or communicate clearly.
Baltimore also is 3rd in the nation in most job-training programs that have less than 10% attendance.
“there is an epidemic of white police officers killing blacks” – the police officer in Baltimore that drove the van and has been charged with the most serious crimes is black.
Missing too from the liberals narrative is that Freddie who has a history of street drug dealing, was observed in a hand-to-hand transaction in the most drug infested area of the city (rife with heroin) and tested positive for marijuana and heroin.
Baltimore is solely controlled by black Democrats but of course it is all the fault of conservatives. Right.
Refusing to acknowledge the facts and blaming people that have nothing to do with problem simply perpetuate the problems and the black people will continue to suffer.
The chance of the left taking responsibility for their failure is non-existent. Pops and keller and their types are the proof.
Bullsh!t?
Denial of the facts is so liberal.
You won’t take responsibility for the Democrats failure of leadership and disastrous programs that have cost the tax-payers billions and produced no results other than keeping poverty alive and well.
The liberals scream for more funding for schools and job-training. Baltimore has the second highest per-capita spending in the nation along with a 50% dropout rate. Most Baltimore high school “graduates” (pushed via fraudulent test scores) cannot write a resume or communicate clearly.
Baltimore also is 3rd in the nation in most job-training programs that have less than 10% attendance.
“there is an epidemic of white police officers killing blacks” – the police officer in Baltimore that drove the van and has been charged with the most serious crimes is black.Missing too from the liberals narrative is that Freddie who has a history of street drug dealing, was observed in a hand-to-hand transaction in the most drug infested area of the city (rife with heroin) and tested positive for marijuana and heroin.
Baltimore is solely controlled by black Democrats but of course it is all the fault of conservatives. Right.
Refusing to acknowledge the facts and blaming people that have nothing to do with problem simply perpetuate the problems and the black people will continue to suffer.
The chance of the left taking responsibility for their failure is non-existent. Pops and keller and their types are the proof.
Before you criticize educational systems you might want to reach out and get a proofreader. Your sentence structure needs work.
Mule, asking people here to take personal responsibility for all liberal, democratic or progressive leadership isn't really fair. as far as being partisan, come on man almost everything you post has a partisan comment. i will grant you that you get called names probably far more than you call others names. that is mostly from history i suppose and that some people here really do not like you or your opinions.
that said you asked what are the causes of this.
i would say it is a long and complicated problem that dates back centuries. some of the modern day causes are the goverment (left and right over many years), drugs, the war on drugs, poverty, unemployment, economic opprotunities, social welfare programs, dysfunctional families. i know i'm forgetting something but i have company coming over and need to move on.
blaming all liberals or conservatives is a lazy way of looking at the overall issue.
have a great day and enjoy the Derby or NBA, NASCAR or The Big Fight tonight.
Apparently keller, pops, little billy and that crowd of liberals are either unable or unwilling to offer an explanation for what is happening in Baltimore.
Other than to insult me they have nothing to offer the thread.Can any liberal here articulate an opinion as to why this is going on?
What have you offered , other than bullish!t and stupidity?
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Bullsh!t?
Denial of the facts is so liberal.
You won’t take responsibility for the Democrats failure of leadership and disastrous programs that have cost the tax-payers billions and produced no results other than keeping poverty alive and well.
The liberals scream for more funding for schools and job-training. Baltimore has the second highest per-capita spending in the nation along with a 50% dropout rate. Most Baltimore high school “graduates” (pushed via fraudulent test scores) cannot write a resume or communicate clearly.
Baltimore also is 3rd in the nation in most job-training programs that have less than 10% attendance.
“there is an epidemic of white police officers killing blacks” – the police officer in Baltimore that drove the van and has been charged with the most serious crimes is black.Missing too from the liberals narrative is that Freddie who has a history of street drug dealing, was observed in a hand-to-hand transaction in the most drug infested area of the city (rife with heroin) and tested positive for marijuana and heroin.
Baltimore is solely controlled by black Democrats but of course it is all the fault of conservatives. Right.
Refusing to acknowledge the facts and blaming people that have nothing to do with problem simply perpetuate the problems and the black people will continue to suffer.
The chance of the left taking responsibility for their failure is non-existent. Pops and keller and their types are the proof.
What facts?.......none from you as usual. 😛
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The facts are quite clear to anyone with an open mind and willing to admit them.
Of course you never have anything to offer to the discussion
You are the perfect example of why the black people continue to suffer.
What fact have I posted that is not true?
What is your solution to the problem?
So Pops - you're the one? I've been wondering about that.
I was giving credit to centuries of oppression, poverty, lack of education, and systemic racism.
Yet... it was pops42 all along.
Homicide charges all around, just announced, that should satisfy the masses.
The protestors seem satisfied and giddy over the charges being filed, but they're getting their
hopes up a little high thinking said charges will stand up in court. As much as they complain about justice and fairness, they seem totally oblivious to the concept of due process. Weird.
Homicide charges all around, just announced, that should satisfy the masses.
The protestors seem satisfied and giddy over the charges being filed, but they're getting their
hopes up a little high thinking said charges will stand up in court. As much as they complain about justice and fairness, they seem totally oblivious to the concept of due process. Weird.
Why do you think that the charges won't hold up?
Apparently keller, pops, little billy and that crowd of liberals are either unable or unwilling to offer an explanation for what is happening in Baltimore.
Other than to insult me they have nothing to offer the thread.Can any liberal here articulate an opinion as to why this is going on?
What have you offered , other than bullish!t and stupidity?
__________________________________________________________________________
Bullsh!t?
Denial of the facts is so liberal.
You won’t take responsibility for the Democrats failure of leadership and disastrous programs that have cost the tax-payers billions and produced no results other than keeping poverty alive and well.
The liberals scream for more funding for schools and job-training. Baltimore has the second highest per-capita spending in the nation along with a 50% dropout rate. Most Baltimore high school “graduates” (pushed via fraudulent test scores) cannot write a resume or communicate clearly.
Baltimore also is 3rd in the nation in most job-training programs that have less than 10% attendance.
“there is an epidemic of white police officers killing blacks” – the police officer in Baltimore that drove the van and has been charged with the most serious crimes is black.Missing too from the liberals narrative is that Freddie who has a history of street drug dealing, was observed in a hand-to-hand transaction in the most drug infested area of the city (rife with heroin) and tested positive for marijuana and heroin.
Baltimore is solely controlled by black Democrats but of course it is all the fault of conservatives. Right.
Refusing to acknowledge the facts and blaming people that have nothing to do with problem simply perpetuate the problems and the black people will continue to suffer.
The chance of the left taking responsibility for their failure is non-existent. Pops and keller and their types are the proof.
What facts?.......none from you as usual. 😛
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The facts are quite clear to anyone with an open mind and willing to admit them.
Of course you never have anything to offer to the discussion
You are the perfect example of why the black people continue to suffer.What fact have I posted that is not true?
What is your solution to the problem?
I am an example of why black people continue to suffer?, you are dumber than a shoebox full of sh!t. and a racist a$$-hat, too dumb even for the KKK to recruit.
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Thanks pops!
I always enjoy reading your insightful and thought provoking views on this and any other thread.
You represent your liberal’s friend’s opinion on important issues in eloquent terms and perceptive consideration of serious matters.
Keep it up and you’ll be anointed the lefts spokes-fool in no time!
Homicide charges all around, just announced, that should satisfy the masses.
The protestors seem satisfied and giddy over the charges being filed, but they're getting their
hopes up a little high thinking said charges will stand up in court. As much as they complain about justice and fairness, they seem totally oblivious to the concept of due process. Weird.
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Apparently some have not been following the conflict of interest, gross negligence and dereliction of duty issues not to mention political corruption in this matter.
Of course that doesn’t fit their agenda.
No sense in explaining it to them. Facts are so confusing.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/02/us/lord-of-the-flies-baltimore/index.html
'Lord of the Flies' comes to Baltimore
By John Blake, CNN
Updated 9:30 PM ET, Sat May 2, 2015
Baltimore, Maryland (CNN)He was a quiet man who once stood watch on his front porch, just three blocks away from where a riot erupted in West Baltimore this week.
We called him "Mr. Shields" because no one dared use his first name. He'd step onto his porch at night in plaid shorts and black knit dress socks to watch the Baltimore Orioles play on his portable television set.
He was a steelworker, but he looked debonair: thin mustache always trimmed; wavy salt-and-pepper hair touched up with pomade; cocoa brown skin. He sat like a sentry, watching not just the games but the neighborhood as well.
I knew Mr. Shields' routine because I was his neighbor. I grew up in the West Baltimore community that was rocked this week by protests over the death of a young black man in police custody.
It's surreal to see your old neighborhood go up in flames as commentators try to explain the rage with various complex racial and legal theories. But when I returned to my home this week, the rage made sense to me. There were no more Mr. Shields -- the older black men were gone.
I asked 28-year-old Zachary Lewis about the absence of older men. He stood by a makeshift memorial placed at the spot where Freddie Gray, the man whose death ignited the riots, was arrested.
"This is old here," he said, pointing to himself. "There ain't no more 'Old Heads' anymore, where you been? They got big numbers or they in pine boxes." In street syntax, that meant long prison sentences or death.
We hear about the absence of black men from families, but what happens when they disappear from an entire community? West Baltimore delivered the answer to that question this week.
It's no accident that one of the most enduring images from the riot was a young mother spanking her son as she dragged him away from the protests. Where were the men in his life?
As I walked through my old streets, it was filled with nothing but black young women, children and teenage boys. It was as if an alien spaceship had come in the night and spirited all the older black men away.
Castaways waiting for rescue
I've read and written about big issues like the mass incarceration of black men for nonviolent drug offenses -- what some call "The New Jim Crow." To see it in person, though, is spooky. I felt like "The Lord of the Flies" had taken over my old neighborhood.
"The Lord of the Flies" was a novel written in 1954 by the English author William Golding. It describes what happens to a group of upper-class English schoolboys when their plane crash-lands on a deserted island and all the adults are killed. The kids try to build a society of their own, but with no adult guidance, they descend into tribalism and savagery.
William Raspberry, a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer for the Washington Post, once invoked the book's title in a column to describe what was happening to young black men in inner cities across America. He said that without the civilizing influence of older men to guide them, young black men never develop an internal moral compass. They become castaways. I read Raspberry's essay after college and kept it for years. It spoke so well to what I saw in the 1980s when the crack epidemic first hit my neighborhood.
I heard Raspberry's voice again this week when I talked to a 27-year-old black man named Juan Grant. He knew Gray, whose death in police custody lit the fuse in Baltimore. Grant stood no more than a foot from me, but as he talked, he yelled at me in frustration, spittle coming from his mouth. He said Gray's death had convinced him and his friends to stop "ripping and running" the streets. They wanted boys to respect them as men.
But they didn't know how to get that respect because their fathers had never been around. He described their dilemma with a bitter laugh:
"It's men learning on the job trying to teach young men how to be men."
Raspberry wrote his column 28 years ago. Now there are even more castaways like Grant in West Baltimore. Yet here's the twist: They don't just feel abandoned by indifferent white people; many feel ignored by the city's black political leaders.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake is black, but I found nothing but disdain for her in West Baltimore. People kept complaining that she called protesters "thugs."
"She turned on her own people, calling us thugs," a 16-year-old high school student named Malik said as he waited at a bus stop next to Mondawmin Mall, a flashpoint for the riots. "Pretty sure she ain't perfect. She made some mistakes in her life. I'm pretty sure she did."
He doesn't think any of the city's leader's care about him.
"They talk about 'We the future,' but they killing us," he said.
Now this is the part of the discussion about Baltimore that some conservatives tend to love. Their refrain: It's all about individual behavior; there's a culture of poverty that Big Government programs won't help; Oh God, not Al Sharpton again; just pull yourself up by your bootstraps.
My own experiences tell me it's not all about individual effort.
What is a working man?
Choices, someone once said, are constrained by circumstances. And the circumstances that drove young black men like Grant to the streets this week are getting grimmer.
Take Mr. Shields, for example. The reason I saw so many working-class men like Mr. Shields in my neighborhood was because there were blue-collar jobs for them. Before the Inner Harbor in Baltimore became a haven for tourists, it was a haven for a burgeoning black middle class in my city.
Mr. Shields worked as a steel rigger at Sparrows Point in the inner harbor. Other black men worked at the Domino Sugar plant. My father was a merchant marine who sailed out of the harbor. These were well-paying jobs with strong unions that fought for good benefits and united black, brown and white working-class people.
The old Domino Sugar factory on the Baltimore harbor. Men like Walter Boyd raised families working there.
The old Domino Sugar factory on the Baltimore harbor. Men like Walter Boyd raised families working there.
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They helped men like Walter Boyd, 76, who sat on his front porch in West Baltimore this week like he was a reincarnation of Mr. Shields -- an impassive Sphinx surveying his domain. He was one of the few older black men I saw around. He had a box of chicken wings attached to his walker along with ice water. Boyd had raised three children working at Domino Sugar.
"Best job I ever had," he said. "You didn't get fired. You fired yourself. As long as you came to work and worked, you had a job. It was hard work but I had it made because I knew how to work."
Boyd's son, Robert, had just stopped by to cut his father's hair. He chuckled at his father's reference to hard work. Growing up, he said, his father kept him busy to keep him out of trouble. He'd take him to the country in the summer to work in the tobacco fields. He remembers watching his father plow a field one day, sweat pouring down his face, when another man turned to him and said with admiration: "That's a working man."
"There was something about the way he said that that let me know that's the way you supposed to be if you wanted respect," said Robert Boyd, who is a truck driver and pastor of the Beacon of Truth Church and Ministries in West Baltimore.
Yet boys don't respect men who don't have jobs. And many of those blue-collar jobs that built the black middle class in Baltimore are gone. Even the neighborhood businesses that I remember from youth -- an ice cream factory and a milk company behind my house -- were shuttered when I returned.
Unlike Walter Boyd, the old men I did see in my neighborhood this week were broken-down, unshaven. I thought to myself: If you want to destroy a people, first break their men.
"Now we as men are fearful when we walk through a group of boys," Robert Boyd said. "When we were boys, when we walked through a group of men, we felt secure. Something is wrong."
Taking the city from away from us
Something else was missing when I returned: places for kids to play or meet the men who could mentor them.
Baltimore is a sports-crazy town. I grew up playing Little League baseball, running around the track at the high school across the street from my home, and playing tennis at public courts scattered through West Baltimore. There were public swimming pools, pickup basketball games, and plenty of recreation centers. On some days, I barely ate because I spent so much time outside playing sports.
Yet when I returned to my old playing fields, they were overgrown with weeds or barred with locked gates. I heard the same story from residents. The city had closed the pools, removed the basketball goals and, as recently as 2013, closed 20 recreation centers. I didn't see any kids playing baseball or football in the streets.
"They've taken the city away from us. We have nowhere to go and nothing to do," says Grant, the young man who wants to be a role model.
Men like the author's father were merchant marines and sailed from Baltimore's harbor.
Men like the author's father were merchant marines and sailed from Baltimore's harbor.
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The sports venues weren't just for the kids; they were for adults. It's where men mentored kids by becoming their coaches. The tracks and pools were places where families gathered. The school's playing fields were open to everyone in the community.
I practically lived on the playing fields at Frederick Douglass High School, which became a focal point for the riots. When I talked to Walter Boyd and his son, I did so across the street from Douglass' track, which was ringed with locked gates.
"I used to do my walking there," Robert Boyd said, pointing to the track. "Not just I, but older cats and younger cats would just walk. That's when you saw community -- younger, older people. You see people and say, 'How you doing.' They don't want you on the track now."
The youth aren't missing just recreation centers and tracks; the jobs programs are gone as well.
When I grew up in West Baltimore in the late 1970s and early 1980s, virtually all of my friends worked. The city offered various jobs programs for youths -- Summer Corps, Youth Corps, Manpower. Some jobs were as simple as sweeping the streets, but we didn't mind. It was like a rite of passage into adulthood. You didn't have to ask your parents for money. I still remember the envy I felt when my friends took their first Summer Corps checks to Mondawmin Mall to buy new tennis shoes.
I hear people talk about welfare queens and the "culture of poverty." But most of the kids I grew up with weren't even content to join a jobs program. They hustled for other work. One of the most coveted jobs was riding on the milk trucks during their morning deliveries. At sunrise virtually every day, a crowd of boys would gather outside the loading dock at the Cloverdale milk company. They stood around like the day laborers who hang out today around Home Depot. They wanted a milk driver to stop and say hop on. They'd help deliver the milk, and the driver would give them a couple extra bucks.
I still remember the rejection one morning when I woke up early and joined that crowd. One by one I saw all my friends picked up until I was the only one left. Nobody stopped for me. I was too skinny to pick up a milk crate. I went home and threw myself on my bed in despair. I would never be cool like my friends.
My interest in journalism also was nurtured by these jobs programs. I interned at the Baltimore Sun and Afro-American newspapers while I was in high school. I participated in journalism getaways for promising inner-city students. I couldn't afford any of it, but if you're reading this now, it's because somebody somewhere was willing to pay money to give me a chance.
Today, few of those programs exist. The Rev. Jamal Bryant, a popular Baptist minister in Baltimore, said the city has even closed a quarter of its public libraries.
"All of those programs are housed in the Smithsonian Institution," he says of the youth jobs programs. "They are no longer in evidence or thriving today."
Yet there is one institution the city seems to find money to invest in, some residents say: law enforcement. Funding for public schools, libraries, jobs programs and recreation centers may lag, but the budget for jails and police never seems to run dry, Walter Boyd and others say.
Some wonder if it's deliberate.
"If you don't invest in them now, you're just going to have to build more prisons," Boyd says about kids in West Baltimore. "And that just seems like that's what the plan is. They won't educate you. But they'll incarcerate you in a minute."
A bittersweet reunion
I ended my return by going back to the house where I grew up. I rang the doorbell, but a guy washing his car on the street told me the old woman who lived there wouldn't answer the door because she was "skittish." Bars seemed to cover every window; other homes were boarded up, and those that weren't looked so dilapidated that it seemed as if the residents didn't care anymore.
And they don't, because so few are owners now.
I ran into one person who was still there from my childhood. I knocked on his door and a big smile flashed across his face. He had not seen me since high school, but he remembered. We all called him "Herb." He was one of the few homeowners left.
We sat down on his porch and talked about old times. He said nobody sat on the porches and talked to each other anymore. Of the 38 homes on our block, only seven were owned by their occupants. When his house was recently burglarized, he said it took three calls to 911 and 55 minutes for the police to show up.
"I could be mutilated and lying on the street," he said, "and nobody would help or call the police."
I said goodbye and left. As I got in my car, I looked at him standing at his door, still smiling as he waved at me. I also looked at Mr. Shields' old porch as I drove away. The paint was peeling and the front looked disheveled. He never would have allowed that.
This was my home. This was my family. These were my friends. But they were ghosts now. There were few men looking out for the neighborhood any longer.
What's left are boys trying to figure out how to be men -- and how to avoid getting "big numbers" or ending up in "pine boxes."
Thanks for sharing that Hemp. You are right on message. That article is indeed an interesting take on the Baltimore riots.
Corporations have become people with all the free speech their money can buy. First thing they do is outsource the jobs to places where people work for a fraction of what Americans need to survive. So the American cities are dying. The American Middle Class is dying. Do those corporations care?
don't forget, technology and automation and competition also play a role in the decisions of corporations. its not all greedy shareholders and owners.
They play a role, but you still need factories to build a lot of that technology. Where was your phone assembled?
And don't forget pops42. He too is responsible! 😉
we'll get to pops42 later in another thread 😉
i don't have a phone but i know what you are saying. its more subtle than cell phones though. in that story the jobs lost were not assembly jobs. items can be shipped more quickly today also so regional hubs aren't required. the milk delivery mentioned in the story.......i've been drinking so hard to describe....lol its tough sober tooo.......its all a tangled web of problems that need subtle solutions not a sledgehammer.
throwing all solutions into the catagory of social welfare doesn't help solve the problems either. some groups do that too. i think it comes down to jobs, how those jobs are found across the country is the problem. if the government trys to create them it is bad....but the government is willing to do that right now. the other side says the private sector should do it....free market.......but they don't seem to want to do it. subtle differences with the same goal.
how can it happen without all the animosity?
i have no answer and i don't expect anyone here to either
http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/29/news/economy/baltimore-economy/index.html
Recent clashes in Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray have shined yet another light on the mounting tensions between black communities and police in America's cities. But it is far from the whole story.
When comparing measures of income, employment, poverty, housing, incarceration and overall health, the city's black residents are living in a very different city than their wealthier white neighbors.
Just over 63% of Baltimore's population is black and here are some of the stunning disparities they face.
INCOMES
Baltimore is located in the richest state in the country, Maryland, which makes comparing the incomes of blacks in Baltimore to the median income of the state overall particularly stark, with an almost $40,000 a year a difference in earnings.
But even if you compare the incomes of blacks versus whites living within the city of Baltimore, a large chasm still exists. White residents in the city make almost twice as much as black residents.
baltimore median income
JOBS
The gross disparity in income has a lot to do with jobs.
Decades of decline in the manufacturing and shipping industries and a shrinking population have left large sections of the city in economic despair.
Meanwhile, there's been an influx of jobs in fields that are seeking white collar, college-educated workers, such as cyber security, life sciences and information technology, said Anirban Basu, CEO of Sage Policy Group, an economic and policy consulting group in Baltimore.
For young black men between the ages of 20 and 24, the unemployment rate was an astounding 37% in 2013, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. Census Bureau. That's compared with 10% for white men of the same age.
Even though hiring has picked up in Baltimore since 2013, Basu says the trend continues. And overall, unemployment is still much higher in Baltimore than it is nationwide.
baltimore unemployment
HOUSING
The housing picture is not any prettier. The median value of owner-occupied housing units in Baltimore is $157,900. That's barely half the $292,700 median for Maryland and still fairly well below the national median of $176,700.
Abandoned buildings have long been a problem. The city has an estimated 16,000 vacant buildings and another 14,000 vacant lots, according to the Housing Authority of Baltimore City. And some neighborhoods are far worse. In the blighted neighborhoods of Sandtown-Winchester and Harlem Park, the area where Gray reportedly lived, almost a quarter of buildings were vacant in 2011, according to the city.
POVERTY
Nearly 24% of Baltimore's population is living below the poverty line, which is $20,090 a year for a family of three.
The percentage goes up from there when looking at just children, with 35% living below the poverty line and 61% living in low-income households that have incomes that are less than two times the poverty level.
baltimore children
HEALTH
Baltimore is home to Johns Hopkins University, one of the nation's top medical schools and hospitals, but it is not the healthiest city.
Life expectancy rates in the neighborhoods of Upton and Druid Heights -- where median income is well below the poverty line at $13,388 a year -- is only 63 years old. That's 20 years lower than the 83-year life expectancy for Roland Park, less than five miles away. In that neighborhood, the median income is $90,492.
baltimore health
PRISON
One reason the economy in Baltimore is so depressed is because so many of its residents are in prison.
One-third of Maryland residents in the state's prisons are from the city of Baltimore. And it comes at a huge cost to the state: An estimated $220 million is spent incarcerating people from just 25 communities in Baltimore each year.
Additional reporting by Tami Luhby
Where's that thread about pops42???
When noted civil right attorney and celebrated liberal Alan Dershowitz says you screwed up, you have a problem.
Alan Dershowitz says charges against Baltimore officers will be dropped
May 2, 2015 3:51 PM MST
In an exclusive interview on Saturday, Alan Dershowitz, a lawyer, jurist, author, political commentator and a prominent scholar on constitutional and criminal law stated that the charges against the Baltimore police officers would be dropped due to lack of evidence. Dershowitz explained that this is not only a sad day in America but also that under the Constitution, the only people who are entitled to justice are the defendants, those who are charged with a crime, not based on political justice or agendas.
Dershowitz said “This is a very sad day for justice. Today had nothing to do with justice. Today was crowd control. Everything was motivated by a threat of riots and a desire to prevent riots. The mayor outrageously said we're going to get justice for the victim, the family and people of Baltimore, never mentioning the defendants. Under our Constitution, the only people who are entitled to justice are the defendants.”
“They are presumed innocent, they need due process of law, and the mayor and the state attorney have made it virtually impossible for these defendants to get a fair trial. They have been presumed guilty, “Dershowitz said. “I understand why the mayor and state attorney want to prevent riots… but that's not the job of the justice system. You cannot allow police officers or any other defendants to become scapegoats for crowds demanding a continuation of rioting.”
Dershowitz’s comments comes days after the start of the riots and the ensuing decision by the Mayor of Baltimore who issued orders for the police to stand down and not fight back. As a result, over 100 Baltimore police officers were injured and some had to take medical leave due to the seriousness of their injuries. The Baltimore Police Capt. Eric Kowalczyk had stated they were not pelted with pebbles, but with bricks and some with embedded glass were thrown at his officers.
Did someone say something???
That Baltimore mayor is a piece of work. First, she sends the police out in the
middle of some horrible rioting with stand down orders while giving the rioters
"room to destroy." Then, she backs the bus over them by calling in the DOJ to
dig up garbage on the department. She's lost them.
That Baltimore mayor is a piece of work. First, she sends the police out in the
middle of some horrible rioting with stand down orders while giving the rioters
"room to destroy." Then, she backs the bus over them by calling in the DOJ to
dig up garbage on the department. She's lost them.
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But the Mayor is doing such good work!
Since the Freddie incident there have been 25 homicides and 40 shootings.
From the “You Can’t Make this Stuff Up” files:
Obama Praised Baltimore Police He's Now Investigating
05/06/2015 06:57 PM ET
Law and Order: Just two months ago, President Obama held up the Baltimore police force as a model of unbiased community policing. Now he's investigating it for civil-rights violations. What's changed?
In a March White House report on police reforms, Obama and his Task Force on 21st Century Policing praised Baltimore's force and its black chief for "implementing national best practices for policies and training," including "use of force" reforms. His task force even quoted Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts, who said he changed "outdated procedures" that "put officers at odds with the community."
Yet now the Obama Justice Department is investigating the Baltimore police for a "pattern or practice of discriminating" against the black community in "arrests, traffic stops and other operations." The federal probe is separate from an ongoing federal inquiry into the death of Freddie Gray, which focuses on the alleged misconduct of six Baltimore cops involved in his arrest, half of whom are black.
It's absurd to think that black police officers under the direction of a black police chief are inherently biased against young black men. So why does Obama keep charging police bias where mixed-race juries weighing all the evidence conclude there is none?
He was just as wrong in Sanford, Fla., where he and his attorney general scolded local police for not charging George Zimmerman with murder, as he was in Ferguson, Mo., and Queens, N.Y.
Why does he keep launching investigations into police discrimination and portraying cops as rabid racists? Because these probes provide a political justification for federalizing local police forces.
Last week, Obama said he's dispatching federal civil-rights officials to retrain cops in "every city and jurisdiction around the country" to be more culturally sensitive to urban blacks. This so-called de-biasing retraining, according to the same White House report, centers on "respecting" black perpetrators and teaching "de-escalation and tactical retreat skills" when confronting them in high-crime areas.
In other words, giving people space to break the law, which also means giving them space to ambush and kill cops. Five NYPD cops already are believed to have been shot by African-American criminals in just the past five months. Last week, 25-year-old officer Brian Moore was fatally shot in the head, allegedly by career criminal Demetrius Blackwell, while sitting in his car.
FBI crime data over the past decade show that African-Americans commit a disproportionately high 40% of all cop-killings — more than three times their representation in the population — yet this administration is forcing local police to lower their guard when dealing with blacks in crime-infested urban areas.
Read More At Investor's Business Daily: http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/050615-751384-obama-praised-baltimore-police-department.htm#ixzz3ZregriT0
The Left likes to get out ahead of these race stories and put their own spin on the events as they see fit. Never mind that the claims are eventually proven false (hands up don't shoot), the desired political effect has been accomplished. It's a slick political maneuver, damn the truth, aimed directly at the low-information voter.
The Left likes to get out ahead of these race stories and put their own spin on the events as they see fit. Never mind that the claims are eventually proven false (hands up don't shoot), the desired political effect has been accomplished. It's a slick political maneuver, damn the truth, aimed directly at the low-information voter.
Why doesn't the Right ever have any solutions? Everyone knows how perfect they are, why won't they solve matters? Or is hatred of liberals all they have?
The Left likes to get out ahead of these race stories and put their own spin on the events as they see fit. Never mind that the claims are eventually proven false (hands up don't shoot), the desired political effect has been accomplished. It's a slick political maneuver, damn the truth, aimed directly at the low-information voter.
Why doesn't the Right ever have any solutions? Everyone knows how perfect they are, why won't they solve matters? Or is hatred of liberals all they have?
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Because Democrats have complete control over the failing cities and their “constituents”.
The Republicans often have no voice and if they dare speak the left brutally criticizes them with their “they just want to put you back in chains” or “are trying to take away school funding” or “are racists” and alike.
Occasionally Republicans get a chance to fix the disastrous liberal policies. The State of Maryland dumped the Democrats and elected a Republican as Governor.
Republicans offer plans and policies often but as in the case of recent history, Harry Reid in the U.S. Senate would not allow anything Republican to even be debated much less voted on.
Obama, Reid and Pelosi would then go running to the TV cameras and claim that Republicans have no ideas or refuse to work with them.
This is the typical Democrat way. Block anything Republicans offer and then declare a false narrative.
The bottom line is Baltimore is and has been exclusively run by Democrats who have failed miserably.
The left will never admit these facts and as usual, blame someone else.
Admitting your mistakes and accepting other views is just not in the Democrats DNA.
The poorest people will continue to suffer and the hands of Democrats.
The Left likes to get out ahead of these race stories and put their own spin on the events as they see fit. Never mind that the claims are eventually proven false (hands up don't shoot), the desired political effect has been accomplished. It's a slick political maneuver, damn the truth, aimed directly at the low-information voter.
Why doesn't the Right ever have any solutions? Everyone knows how perfect they are, why won't they solve matters? Or is hatred of liberals all they have?
They do. Just to name one example, New York improved dramatically in all ways under 20 years of non-Democratic rule. Examples abound throughout the nation.
The Left likes to get out ahead of these race stories and put their own spin on the events as they see fit. Never mind that the claims are eventually proven false (hands up don't shoot), the desired political effect has been accomplished. It's a slick political maneuver, damn the truth, aimed directly at the low-information voter.
Why doesn't the Right ever have any solutions? Everyone knows how perfect they are, why won't they solve matters? Or is hatred of liberals all they have?
They do. Just to name one example, New York improved dramatically in all ways under 20 years of non-Democratic rule. Examples abound throughout the nation.
"Bloomberg endorsing Obama is no big deal at all. He endorsed him 4 years ago and has always at heart been a very liberal Democrat. He only left the party so he could become Mayor." - dougrhon, 11/2/12
Alrighty then.
