- 13 Jul 2018 15:52
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nat ... 744741002/
Sad! Is this not necessarily what they were asking for though? Or can the police "stop killing black men" and still investigate crime as rigorously as ever, or is Baltimore's mostly minority police department racist and is deliberately letting people die?
In the space of just a few days in spring 2015 – as Baltimore faced a wave of rioting after Freddie Gray, a black man, died from injuries he suffered in the back of a police van – officers in nearly every part of the city appeared to turn a blind eye to everyday violations. They still answered calls for help. But the number of potential violations they reported seeing themselves dropped by nearly half. It has largely stayed that way ever since.
“What officers are doing is they’re just driving looking forward. They’ve got horse blinders on,” says Kevin Forrester, a retired Baltimore detective.
The surge of shootings and killings that followed has left Baltimore easily the deadliest large city in the United States. Its murder rate reached an all-time high last year; 342 people were killed. The number of shootings in some neighborhoods has more than tripled. One man was shot to death steps from a police station. Another was killed driving in a funeral procession.
Sad! Is this not necessarily what they were asking for though? Or can the police "stop killing black men" and still investigate crime as rigorously as ever, or is Baltimore's mostly minority police department racist and is deliberately letting people die?
Orb Team Re-Assemble!