Baltimore Residents Beg Police To Protect Their Neighborhoods

[rangerrebew]

Baltimore Residents Beg Police To Protect Their Neighborhoods
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Amber Randall
11:47 AM 08/29/2016
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Demonstrators jump on a damaged Baltimore police department vehicle during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland, in this file photo taken April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton   Demonstrators jump on a damaged Baltimore police department vehicle during clashes in Baltimore, Maryland, in this file photo taken April 27, 2015. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton

As Justice Department civil rights lawyers held a meeting to talk about overhauling the Baltimore police department, another group of Baltimore residents gathered to beg the police to fix the crime in their neighborhoods.

The meetings show a disconnect between those who are concerned about crime and those worried about police reform, reports the Washington Post. Neither group was aware the other one was meeting.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/08/29/baltimore-residents-beg-police-to-protect-their-neighborhoods/#ixzz4IoZEoSDz

[Jazzhead]

Black lives matter?   It's the drop-off in pro-active policing demanded by BLM that's killing African-Americans.   According to Heather MacDonald in today's WSJ, 

[T]he victims of the resulting crime surge are almost exclusively black; whites have been largely unaffected.   In Baltimore,  45 people were killed in July 2015, 43 of them black.  In Chicago, 2,460 blacks were shot last year, lethally or non-lethally, according to the city's police department.  That's nearly seven a day.  Seventy-eight white residents were shot in 2015, though the white share of the Chicago population is about the same as the black share.   Blacks in Chicago were 18 times more likely to be killed last year than whites, up from eight times more likely in 2005 

I'd link to MacDonald's article if the WSJ weren't behind a paywall.   But I'd be remiss not to mention the title of the piece:  "Black Lives Matter to Donald Trump."   

They sure as hell don't matter to BLM, or to Hillary Clinton.   

[Charlespg]

Let BLM police their damm neighborhoods