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"A study of gun violence in Baltimore by crime analyst Jeff Asher showed an inverse correlation with proactive drug arrests: When Baltimore cops virtually stopped making drug arrests last year after the rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, shootings soared. In Chicago, where pedestrian stops have fallen nearly 90%, homicides this year are up 60% compared with the same period last year. "
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"A study of gun violence in Baltimore by crime analyst Jeff Asher showed an inverse correlation with proactive drug arrests: When Baltimore cops virtually stopped making drug arrests last year after the rioting that followed the death of Freddie Gray while in police custody, shootings soared. In Chicago, where pedestrian stops have fallen nearly 90%, homicides this year are up 60% compared with the same period last year. "
I'll bring up race. Of the last 100 homicides victims in Baltimore, 3 victims were white, 1 Hispanic, 10 unknown, and the rest, 86 dead, were black, 80 of them black men.
I could guess at some things --- few if any of the black victims were killed by cops of any race, by non-black civilians, or in domestic disputes.
This is what happens when neighborhoods in high crime, drug infested neighborhoods and political leaders don't want cops to profile and chase a guy like Freddy Gray.
And it does not help when your own city wants to charge their police officers with crimes like assault, for simply making an arrest.
no wonder police are refusing to go the extra mile, no one in government has their back, and in fact their own mayors can't toss them under the bus quick enough.
I'll bring up race. Of the last 100 homicides victims in Baltimore, 3 victims were white, 1 Hispanic, 10 unknown, and the rest, 86 dead, were black, 80 of them black men.
I could guess at some things --- few if any of the black victims were killed by cops of any race, by non-black civilians, or in domestic disputes.
This is what happens when neighborhoods in high crime, drug infested neighborhoods and political leaders don't want cops to profile and chase a guy like Freddy Gray.
Republicans control the vast majority of state governments, blame them.
They do? News to me. Of the top 50 cities that have had their murder rates significantly increase since Ferguson, how many are run by Conservatives? And is there any sort of demographic component to those cities?
What does Obama have to do with this. Republicans control the vast majority of state governments, blame them.
The reduced proactive patrolling by police departments is a direct result of aggressive enforcement actions by the DoJ, which answers directly to Obama. (And Obama made it fairly clear that he ordered the DoJ to step up enforcement actions against police departments.)
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