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Baltimore Police: Gangs Enter Partnership to ‘Take-Out’ Officers [W:99]

My wife showed it too me this morning before I left for the office. She narrated it. I'm sure she was pretty close to accurate. Awesome! Way to go Mom.

Where are all the Dads?
Yeah, that's a related wide spread problem.
 
I don't think its irrelevant, it would show the issue is a different one than just problems being with cops. But I don't think any would disagree with a independent investigation.

There you have it, let the independent investigation begin.
 

That's how the parents were in my neighborhood.....although, the moms aren't going to hurt their hands. Frying Pans and rolling pins work pretty good. Uhm, so I have seen.
..... :lol:
 

Because they cannot help themselves but get involved in anything that is race related. If anything it's their Achilles heel.
 

Polgara, True, Detroit was right in line to be the Midwest's NY City, with the same level of culture and expositions and such, but it wasn't just the automotive, there was mining, lumber and any number of other industries large, active and profitable. Somewhere along the line, reality didn't stay on course with the ideals or the plan.
 

I'm not making excuses for the rioting, I'm saying there is a cause behind it, however. The rioting isn't about justice and is not about Freddie, it is about thugs and criminals waiting to pounce, but they got their excuse through the misuse of police force.

If we want to solve the problem we have to reign in government and start addressing the reasons why the thugs and criminals can gain such large control over parts of our cities.
 

Cmon now EB
The Chicago Democrats was never going to let that happen eva.....just sayin'!
 

There was plenty of time for Baltimore to have launched a "HOMICIDE" investigation before this rioting. They should have quit stating that Gray "DIED" in custody and stated he was apparently the victim of a HOMICIDE. I don't approve of the rioting, but I know where it came from.
 


Why not burn down city hall? why not burn down the police stations?


Why burn down community centers? churches? liquor stores and steal drugs from pharmacies? No, I don't get where they are "Coming from". these things have nothing to do with freddie gray.
 

I've read a number of articles describing Detroit's decline into chaos, and if I recall, the beginning of the end started when they city started throwing money and promises at minority communities to address their lack of opportunities and high unemployment. To pay for these programs, the city started raising taxes on businesses. After the riots of '68, they made more promises, and increased spending. Tax increases soon followed, as the population began to recede.

Rather than spend money on improvements and to keep Detroit viable and interesting, they threw it into a dark hole of socials services payouts, and public employee pay and benefits. Eventually, most major businesses started to move out of the city to less costly surrounding cities, abandoning the inner city. From that, the die was cast. The tax base disappeared, people moved out, and what was once home to some of the most highly paid citizens in the country has turned into a set piece for Armageddon II.

Baltimore, and many cities across the country are poised to make the same mistakes. Rather than encouraging business and opportunity, the liberals running these cities will turn to payouts to buy votes from the "needy", and set in motion the same result. Downtown Los Angeles has teetered on this cliff for decades.
 

No, I think that the overuse of force, the questionable killing of another citizen by police, played into the hands of thugs and criminals. Looting and rioting in the manner it was done is not for Freddie Gray, it's not for justice, it's not outbursts of political emotion. It's criminal behavior, it's looting for the sake of looting, rioting for the sake of rioting done by criminals who wanted nothing more than to do exactly that. But it needed a spark, it needed an ignition source, and it was the actions of the police and the death of Freddie that provided that ignition.

it is true that if this were politically motivated and the people were against the government, then city hall and the police station and other government buildings would be the target, and its obvious from the looting and from who was hit that the violence and theft had nothing to do with it. But it is all one tangled web of non-linear differential response. Certain cities with high areas of poverty and crime have large numbers of these thugs and criminals who give no thought to anything and care for nothing more than the crimes and violence they can get away with. And in all the cities, these thugs wait. They wait for the government to do something they can exploit, they wait for police action that will cause massive protest or anything else they can use as cover for their desire to destroy.

We can't play into their hands, and while the rioters don't care one lick about Freddie Gray, they do care about opportunities to destroy. And that does mean we have to get our police in line BEFORE things blow up like in Ferguson and Baltimore. If we don't address the issues, each and every time this will just get worse. The thugs will see the rioting and looting of other cities and will salivate for the chance to do it to their own, and they will act quicker and with higher levels of violence each time.
 

Ok, but do you see how you are arguing for less menacing police presence, but with such the criminals take over? Scenes like last night IMHO would become a regular occurrence with the neutering of police.
 


Mornin Ocean. :2wave: Well there was that corruption issue they had going on too.
 
Ok, but do you see how you are arguing for less menacing police presence, but with such the criminals take over? Scenes like last night IMHO would become a regular occurrence with the neutering of police.

No, the criminals took over because of aggressive policing. You're talking POST incident, I'm saying curtailing the aggressiveness PRE incident will remove possible excuses for these criminals to take over in the first place. Fundamentally, however, the reasons why those criminals and thugs exist in such large numbers needs to be addressed. But cops killing more people, that will only cause it to get worse. And once it's started, you're screwed because now you have to respond with more aggressive policing and the cycle of hate and aggression and violence takes over.

We cannot allow that cycle to establish and that means, in part, curtailing police activities prior so that you don't get Baltimore's or Ferguson's in the first place. This sort of powder keg explosions need to stop. You also then have to address the socio-economical problems that plague our inner cities and crime ridden areas in order to try to produce more positive community interactions and decrease criminal activity. None of which is a "wave the wand" sort of system where we can magically cure it. It will take time and effort, but if we do it right we will end up all the better for it.
 
Don't worry T. :2wave: Loretta is on the J.O.B. Plus Val Jar talked with the Governor. He knows exactly what to do now.

Soros's involvement is all over this..
 
Has anyone heard why the incident is still under investigation and has anyone been charged with wrongdoing? They released the names of the officers but refuse to release their pictures. Is that common practice? Three of the officers have been identified as white from a video. I read that Baltimore is one city that practices black on black policing. This arrest occurred in a black community across the street from a government housing project in front of boarded up row houses and is known for high criminal activity.
 




he could have been using a hookers ass as a crack hookah, getting a broken back in custody without explaination is not a acceptable.
 
Sharptones was at the funeral.....he knows how to get into meetings at the White House. Bring in the Big Dogs.

This is all coordintate liberal agenda and the liberal mob mentality..its coordinate at the top with Obama..
 
he could have been using a hookers ass as a crack hookah, getting a broken back in custody without explaination is not a acceptable.

I'm not condoning anything. They have had plenty of time to determine who did what in a matter of a couple hours. They refuse to release the pictures of all the cops involved while the angry black mob is attacking white people. 43% of the police force is African-American according to Wiki....

"During Martin O'Malley's administration as mayor, the department had become 43% African American.[25] While progress has been made to improve the department's relationship with Baltimore's now majority African American community, improvements are still being made to the department which for several years has been subject to criticism for its treatment of African American citizens. Police community relations have remained strained with the war on drugs that has plagued several African American neighborhoods in East and West Baltimore and coincidentally enough, many of the most despised officers in several of Baltimore's African American neighborhoods are also African American.[26]"

Baltimore Police Department - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 
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