Baltimore and NYC cops “afraid to arrest anyoneâ€
Jazz ShawPosted at 2:31 pm on August 27, 2019
For two years now, the Baltimore Police Department has been operating under a new “consent decree†designed to monitor how police make arrests, interact with the public and generally conduct themselves. This was part of the fallout from the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing riots in 2015. No matter what the intended purpose of the consent decree may have been, the results have been crippling to the police. Some of them, contacted in a recent, anonymous survey, have said that they’re performing far fewer arrests because they fear the media portrayals and reactions from City Hall will wreck their careers. (Townhall)
In the wake of Freddie Gray’s 2015 death while in Baltimore police custody, the city installed a series of reforms — such as the consent decree — aimed at giving more transparency for the department and how they treat suspects. But the intended consequence of the measures is that many police feel they cannot enforce the law, and that elected leaders simply look for any excuse they can to throw officers under the bus if it helps them politically. New evidence shows this is making the city more dangerous.
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