Posted on Jul 9, 2015
Baltimore sacks Top Cop. Is it the fault of the police that murders are up?
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Baltimore's Mayor sacked their police commissioner over the rise in murder rates. Is it the fault of the police that murders are up, or is it the fault of social engineering, horrid ghetto conditions, drugs, unemployment, and every other problem the ghetto faces?
What would you do to fix this problem?
Baltimore's Mayor sacked their police commissioner over the rise in murder rates. Is it the fault of the police that murders are up, or is it the fault of social engineering, horrid ghetto conditions, drugs, unemployment, and every other problem the ghetto faces?
What would you do to fix this problem?
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It would take the Mayor to accept responsibility/accountability for her actions. Have a town-hall meeting. Then have meetings with the cabinet to identify, analyize, develop a course of action, implementation and solution. Just my opinion.
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MSgt C Madd
What I have seen is an anti cop, no respect, accepted physical resistance, and no backing from command. Not just in Baltimore, but nationwide. Large cities it just gets multiplied. If real or perceived, this is the outcome. Less proactive, more reactive policing is the status quo from the patrol level police. Until the cop hating anti snitch mentality is changed, welcome to the new normal.
SFC Joe S. Davis Jr., MSM, DSL
MSgt C Madd well said and articulately expressed!
1SG Joseph Whisman
Won't happen!!!! She's TOO busy BLAMING everyone else!
1SG Joseph Whisman
LCDR Rabbi Jaron Matlow - HOW about the community ACCEPTING responsibility for BREAKING the laws??? The community DEMANDS respect, but many RESPECT NO one and NOTHING!
My initial thoughts are "blame casting." The Police Commissioner makes an easy scapegoat for crime problems, however Crime is a socio-economic problem, and Police treat the symptom, and cannot be the cure.
Police by their very nature are reactive, and investigative. They don't "prevent" crime, let alone violent crime, therefore how are they going to reduce it? Now, a bad police force may exacerbate an existing problem, and there is evidence this may be true, however that isn't what the Mayor said.
Police by their very nature are reactive, and investigative. They don't "prevent" crime, let alone violent crime, therefore how are they going to reduce it? Now, a bad police force may exacerbate an existing problem, and there is evidence this may be true, however that isn't what the Mayor said.
I don't think firing the commissioner solves the root of the problem! I could write an entire paper on my opinions to solve these problems but I don't feel like typing that much!
Needless to say, this firing "may" be a step in the right direction but I would need to know more about this man's past.
Needless to say, this firing "may" be a step in the right direction but I would need to know more about this man's past.
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