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Topic: Baltimore Crime Is Off The Charts
alleoops Joined Sat 08/06/11 Posts: 10832	Tue 05/26/15 09:34 AM
Baltimore Crime Is Off The Charts Baltimore we have a problem! And I’m not talking about police excessive force or the shooting of unarmed black men. The numbers are startling. In just 72 hours, this past Memorial Weekend 29 people were shot, 7 were killed. This month is the city’s deadliest in more than a decade, since 1999. There have been 108 homicides so far this year, up 40 percent from last year. City officials are dumbfounded to say the least. The mayor says it’s disheartening. The Police Chief Anthony Batts blames, in part, the recent unrest. 35 murders so far this month alone. People are walking into hospitals from gunshot wounds that may not have even been reported to police. Residents tell reporters they see officers driving right past street fights and disturbances. Officers tell me and their supervisors, any time they pull up to respond to a call, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them. We have to send in multiple units just to do basic police work, which says we have to work on community engagement.” “It makes it very difficult to follow up on violence that takes place there,” he said. “Clearly, they’re not holding back. They’re getting to those locations and getting surrounded. You have many citizens with hand-held cameras that they’re sticking in the faces of officers, an inch off the officer’s face.” Officers turned their backs to De Blasio as he visited injured officers in the hospital and at the officer’s funerals. But officers in Baltimore, according to at least one of their own, are turning their backs on not only the Mayor but also the citizens they’re sworn to protect. http://blackamericaweb.com/2015/05/26/don-lemon-baltimore-crime-is-off-the-charts-guess-who-is-to-blame/

InvictusV Joined Sun 11/23/08 Posts: 5282	Tue 05/26/15 02:51 PM
It is the liberal utopia... Say it ain't so..

Rock Joined Thu 10/09/08 Posts: 21258	Tue 05/26/15 03:06 PM
"A fish rots from the head, down." The blame can start, at the mayor & the city council.

metalwing Joined Fri 11/14/08 Posts: 26218	Tue 05/26/15 03:09 PM
Officer Obama and officer Sharpton should start patrolling ...

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Tue 05/26/15 04:17 PM
Maryland Gun Laws and Their Impact on Baltimore When the Maryland General Assembly passed one of the strictest gun laws in the nation in 2013, gun control advocates made sweeping statements about how the legislation would prevent gun violence, reduce the criminal element and save lives. Gun advocates, who were against the Firearm Safety Act, thought that the Maryland gun law infringed on Second Amendment rights. Of concern were aspects of the law that banned 45 different assault weapons, put a capacity limit on gun magazines and significantly increased the licensing requirements for handgun purchasers including mandatory fingerprinting. hmmm once again, i thought strict gun control was supposed to lower gun violence?

sweetestgirl11 Joined Fri 09/12/08 Posts: 30087	Tue 05/26/15 08:07 PM
yupper and these street thugs are the same ones who call the cops as soon as someone pees in their backyard....I don;t blame the cops...let them kill each other in the meantime just protect the rest of us from them.

InvictusV Joined Sun 11/23/08 Posts: 5282	Wed 05/27/15 09:24 AM
Maryland Gun Laws and Their Impact on Baltimore When the Maryland General Assembly passed one of the strictest gun laws in the nation in 2013, gun control advocates made sweeping statements about how the legislation would prevent gun violence, reduce the criminal element and save lives. Gun advocates, who were against the Firearm Safety Act, thought that the Maryland gun law infringed on Second Amendment rights. Of concern were aspects of the law that banned 45 different assault weapons, put a capacity limit on gun magazines and significantly increased the licensing requirements for handgun purchasers including mandatory fingerprinting. hmmm once again, i thought strict gun control was supposed to lower gun violence? O'Malley knew he was running for president and during his final few years in office he pushed a hardcore liberal agenda. This gun control measure being the most obvious.

tomato86 Joined Sat 02/14/15 Posts: 1410	Wed 05/27/15 01:21 PM
Maryland Gun Laws and Their Impact on Baltimore When the Maryland General Assembly passed one of the strictest gun laws in the nation in 2013, gun control advocates made sweeping statements about how the legislation would prevent gun violence, reduce the criminal element and save lives. Gun advocates, who were against the Firearm Safety Act, thought that the Maryland gun law infringed on Second Amendment rights. Of concern were aspects of the law that banned 45 different assault weapons, put a capacity limit on gun magazines and significantly increased the licensing requirements for handgun purchasers including mandatory fingerprinting. hmmm once again, i thought strict gun control was supposed to lower gun violence? O'Malley knew he was running for president and during his final few years in office he pushed a hardcore liberal agenda. This gun control measure being the most obvious. well atleast his gun control measures made the city safer...

SassyEuro2 Joined Wed 04/29/15 Posts: 11102	Wed 05/27/15 07:44 PM
Maryland Gun Laws and Their Impact on Baltimore When the Maryland General Assembly passed one of the strictest gun laws in the nation in 2013, gun control advocates made sweeping statements about how the legislation would prevent gun violence, reduce the criminal element and save lives. Gun advocates, who were against the Firearm Safety Act, thought that the Maryland gun law infringed on Second Amendment rights. Of concern were aspects of the law that banned 45 different assault weapons, put a capacity limit on gun magazines and significantly increased the licensing requirements for handgun purchasers including mandatory fingerprinting. hmmm once again, i thought strict gun control was supposed to lower gun violence? O'Malley knew he was running for president and during his final few years in office he pushed a hardcore liberal agenda. This gun control measure being the most obvious. well atleast his gun control measures made the city safer... I wish.. I could laugh at your being faceous or sarcastic... but I can't. It is blood bath joke on Baltimore & the fools who believed it & those who are taking full advantage of it. "TO CONQUER A NATION, FIRST DISARM IT'S CITIZENS" Adolf Hitler * Mein Kampf*

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Wed 05/27/15 07:49 PM
guess we shouldn't worry much, being we have something like 90 guns per 100 citizens,,,

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 07:53 PM
What's the population of Baltimore? I wondering how it compares to New Orleans homicide rate. No one really knows the population of nola since Katrina but the latest estimate is ~378,000 with 71 homicides so far this year.

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 07:57 PM
Okay so I looked it up, Baltimore has double the population of New Orleans, yet New Orleans has a much higher homicide rate. I say they're both out of control

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 07:57 PM
Okay so I looked it up, Baltimore has double the population of New Orleans, yet New Orleans has a much higher homicide rate. I say they're both out of control

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Wed 05/27/15 08:03 PM
ooh, I love research requests, reminds me of paralegal training,,, population of balitmore: 622,104 (2013), 191 murders in 2014 population of new orleans: 378,715 (2013). 150 murders in 2014 baltimore has had 109 murders this year

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 08:05 PM
ooh, I love research requests, reminds me of paralegal training,,, population of balitmore: 622,104 (2013), 191 murders in 2014 population of new orleans: 378,715 (2013). 150 murders in 2014 baltimore has had 109 murders this year I think I like you lol

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 08:05 PM
ooh, I love research requests, reminds me of paralegal training,,, population of balitmore: 622,104 (2013), 191 murders in 2014 population of new orleans: 378,715 (2013). 150 murders in 2014 baltimore has had 109 murders this year I think I like you lol

SassyEuro2 Joined Wed 04/29/15 Posts: 11102	Wed 05/27/15 08:05 PM Edited by SassyEuro2 on Wed 05/27/15 08:18 PM
What's the population of Baltimore? I wondering how it compares to New Orleans homicide rate. No one really knows the population of nola since Katrina but the latest estimate is ~378,000 with 71 homicides so far this year. ________________________________ Balitmore city ( not the county) 640,000- 642,000 population as of the riots 62.7% black. 28,1% white Density- 6,799 people per square mile

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Wed 05/27/15 08:09 PM Edited by msharmony on Wed 05/27/15 08:10 PM
ok Baltimore had a population of 622,104 in 2013; in 2010, that of Baltimore Metropolitan Area was 2.7 million, the 20th largest in the country. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore

msharmony Joined Mon 08/31/09 Posts: 61041	Wed 05/27/15 08:10 PM
ooh, I love research requests, reminds me of paralegal training,,, population of balitmore: 622,104 (2013), 191 murders in 2014 population of new orleans: 378,715 (2013). 150 murders in 2014 baltimore has had 109 murders this year I think I like you lol aw shucks

shanefromnola Joined Mon 05/25/15 Posts: 137	Wed 05/27/15 08:16 PM
Yeah, I love research myself