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This isn't other cases and her campaign promise to " be tough on Police brutality " instead of protecting the Law abiding citizens and bringing investment back to a City that is desperate for it just means things in that city will continue to devolve )
Fenton this isn't an argument you want to have with me.
This is a clear cut case of police in Baltimore suspecting someone of a crime and then arresting that person when no crime was committed. It's also a case of Baltimore police violated department policy.
In the Baltimore area (city and surrounding counties) there have been 99 deaths in police custody over the last 5 years. Roughly 20 a year. While at the same time the City of Baltimore has paid out $5.7m in cases which have contained police brutality during that same period. In those cases not one police officer was ever arrested or charged for their actions.
Her job is not bring money to the city but to protect law abiding citizens. Police can be criminals too. This is a case where those accused are police. That's it.
She and too many of the residents have bought into this blown up manufactured narrative that every inner city Police force is corrupt and and racist and something needs to be done about.
Sorry, Fenton.. there have been exposé about BCPD. Fact, I linked such one. There is also a long history of deaths in custody of BCPD.
Baltimore ( and other inner city areas ) is the product of decades of Democrat rule and policies that lead to crushing poverty, dependance, corruption and crime.
That is your opinion, not fact. You are making a judgement on Baltimore without knowing exactly how Baltimore works. Baltimore doesn't have a "inner city" in which it's poverty, dependance and crime lay. Rather in Baltimore it's inner city is the wealthy area with Inner Harbor, Camden Yards, Bolton Hill, Charles North, Market Place, and UMBC. Those areas have had hundreds of millions (more like a $1b plus but Ravens and Orioles are paying down their loans for their Stadiums) in the last 30 years. It's where 90% of the money goes. Failed attempts in the past to throw money to build homes in Sandtown backfired because the city build homes and lots of them but people were leaving that area.
Baltimore's issue has always been since MLK riots of 1968.. was lack of jobs and business fleeing the city. Then to combat that issue.. Baltimore started getting "tough on crime" Giuliani style. Then began relying more and more on DoJ and other Federal funding so they sought higher arrest numbers. So thousands and thousands were arrested for some stupid ****.. In fact 600,000 arrest were made in a city of 620,000 during 1 year under Martin O'Malley. Being arrested, just arrested mind you, will harm your ability to get a job because it's considered part of your criminal record. So if you are arrested for "trespassing" or "jay walking".. it could easily cost you a job in Maryland. It wasn't until 2007 Maryland addressed BCPD and the City of Baltimore's policy of arresting just to arrest. But the damage was done. You have a large part of population who couldn't and still can't get a job because of it. That has a snowball effect.