Terrified Baltimore residents feel abandoned by the police

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:02:01 PM EDT

Perrine's brother is one of 36 people killed in Baltimore so far this
month, already the highest homicide count for May since 1999. But while
homicides are spiking, arrests have plunged more than 50 percent
compared to last year.

The drop in arrests followed the death of Freddie
Gray from injuries he suffered in police custody. Gray's death sparked
protests against the police and some rioting, and led to the indictment
of six officers.

Now West Baltimore residents worry they've been
abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them. In recent
weeks, some neighborhoods have become like the Wild West without a
lawman around, residents said.

"Before it was over-policing. Now there's no
police," said Donnail "Dreads" Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes,
the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was arrested. "I haven't seen
the police since the riots," Lee said. "People feel as though they can
do things and get away with it. I see people walking with guns almost
every single day, because they know the police aren't pulling them up
like they used to."

Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said last week
his officers "are not holding back" from policing tough neighborhoods,
but they are encountering dangerous hostility in the Western District.
"Our officers tell me that when officers pull up, they have 30 to 50
people surrounding them at any time," Batts said.

At a City Council meeting Wednesday, Batts said
officers have expressed concern they could be arrested for making
mistakes. "What is happening, there is a lot of levels of confusion in
the police organization. There are people who have pain, there are
people who are hurt, there are people who are frustrated, there are
people who are angry," Batts said. "There are people, and they've said
this to me, 'If I get out of my car and make a stop for a reasonable
suspicion that leads to probable cause but I make a mistake on it, will I
be arrested?' They pull up to a scene and another officer has done
something that they don't know, it may be illegal, will they be arrested
for it?

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:02:59 PM EDT

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They wanted less police involvement in their lives, they got it.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:03:03 PM EDT

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Ha! Don't care.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:03:30 PM EDT

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Elections have consequences.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:04:38 PM EDT

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Wonder if you (idiot citizens who can't seee to make up their mind) will use the "Hands up, don't shoot" against the criminals? That should get the media involved and help deter crime as well.

If that don't work, why don't you throw bricks at the criminals and see if you can put a bunch of them in the hospital! As a last resort, just burn down your neighbor hood to protest the criminals and see if that will drive them out!

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:05:54 PM EDT

[#5]

That's a damn shame!

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:05:55 PM EDT

[#6]

They're getting the policing they wanted.....

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:06:02 PM EDT

[#7]

Waaaaah

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:06:35 PM EDT

[#8]

This is one of those, "Gee, I wonder why?"

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:06:43 PM EDT

[#9]

Maybe the residents of Baltimore should demand more aggressive policing.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:06:46 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:06:56 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:07:30 PM EDT

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Sounds like more freedom and less oppression for everyone. Maybe the DA has some investigators that can respond to calls for service.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:07:33 PM EDT

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You can't "abandon" a responsibility that you never took on in the first place.

What Baltimore residents (and damn near everyone else) are starting to realize is that the police were never there to make you safer in the first place. That may an additional benefit to what they do and indeed they may even do it from time to time, but it isn't what they are there to do.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:07:45 PM EDT

[#14]

Oh well.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:07:53 PM EDT

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"We also gave those, who wished to destroy, space to do that as well"
-- Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:08:10 PM EDT

[#16]

Maybe they should try to change the culture of violence? An ounce of prevention prevents a pound of cure.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:08:17 PM EDT

[#17]

Zero Fucks Given.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:08:31 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:09:12 PM EDT

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Too bad!

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:09:24 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:09:34 PM EDT

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Pretty much sums it up.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:09:35 PM EDT

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FPNI

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:09:54 PM EDT

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A lot of the "they" who were on TV rioting were people paid to be there who don't live there.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:10:04 PM EDT

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that hag mayor got all snotty with a FOX reporter for asking if the rise in crime was because the cops aren't policing.
she got nasty when he asked for confirmation that arrest rates are down 50%.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:10:09 PM EDT

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That's perfect

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:10:50 PM EDT

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The raptor fences aren't out, are they?

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:11:20 PM EDT

[#27]

Completely un-foreseeable.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:11:24 PM EDT

[#28]

You know what? 100% of them will continue to vote for Democrat. In the real world your actions have consequences. Fuck off, liberals.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:11:43 PM EDT

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This is true! Elections, actions and words have consequences.

Those stupid fucks in B-more didn't get it wrong just once or twice, but three times.

Live with it. I just feel sorry for any decent people stuck in that shithole as it spirals out of control.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:12:07 PM EDT

[#30]

Maybe they should arm themselves so the criminals aren't the only ones with the guns...

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:12:14 PM EDT

[#31]

Let me see if I can find any fucks to around here.

Nope. None found.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:12:34 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:12:42 PM EDT

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OMG too funny.

I hate those stupid texting shortcuts OMG LOL TTYL and all the rest but this one deserved it. Well played.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:13:29 PM EDT

[#34]

It sounds like the Baltimorons are getting just what thy wanted.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:14:43 PM EDT

[#35]

And yet another reason the 2nd Amendment is so important

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:14:51 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:15:22 PM EDT

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I am a realist, and I am extremely clear eyed. Never in my life have I expected the cops to do anything but extort and threaten me and mine. It beggars belief that anyone, no matter how naive or demented, could expect otherwise.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:15:44 PM EDT

[#38]

Idiots

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:16:20 PM EDT

[#39]

Play stupid games
Win stupid prizes

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:16:59 PM EDT

[#40]

You don't let the inmates run the asylum.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:18:49 PM EDT

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Dripping with irony--

Now West Baltimore residents worry they've been abandoned by the officers they once accused of harassing them.

Revel in it, assholes.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:19:48 PM EDT

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"You don't need a gun to protect you, that is why we have the police." - a common refrain from the gun-grabbers.

Now they have neither. How is that Liberal-Progressive government working out for you Baltimore?

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:19:49 PM EDT

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Makes me think that the talk about confiscation of 2A stuff is all talk. Those in charge may want to, but the police won't act on it. Why should any officer risk their life for an ungrateful and non-supportive politician?

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:20:20 PM EDT

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Yep if I was a cop there I would watch it burn while laughing my ass

Off

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:20:28 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:20:31 PM EDT

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:21:18 PM EDT

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Your first and second sentences are completely incongruous.

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:21:25 PM EDT

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Pretty much sums it up.

They fucked the police first. The police fucked them best.

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Posted: 5/28/2015 12:23:00 PM EDT

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Since Mr Lee is now done victimizing people, he can't seem to make up his mind if he wants the po-lice around or not.

Lee himself has been in and out of prison since he was 17. He started in the drug trade when his mother became an addict, leaving him to take care of his seven brothers and sisters. “I found a way for us to pay the rent,” says Lee. Since he got out the last time, after serving three years for conspiracy and car theft, he’s sworn off his old life. He’s married now and doesn’t want to jeopardize the Section 8 housing voucher that’s secured his young family a place in Gilmor Homes. “When the police raided my house that last time, I gave it up, it wasn’t worth it.”

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http://www.justicepolicy.org/news/9086

Posted: 5/28/2015 12:23:20 PM EDT

[#50]

Fuck 'em. They didn't want "racist" cops. They go it.

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