Strawman statistics. Keeping message board bandwidth full for decades.
White on white crime far exceeds black on black crime.
Which has what to do with rogue cops not being prosecuted because of racist prosecutors/grand juries?
don't forget Freddie Grey where the prosecutor grossly over-charged and everybody walked.
AND Baltimore has a citizens review board...no easy answers. look a t some of the conflicts listed just ehre
https://www.policeone.com/police-re...se-violence-and-police-reform-simultaneously/
Can Baltimore address intense violence and police reform simultaneously?
Days into 2017,
as Baltimore's historic spike in homicides stretched into a third calendar year, Mayor Catherine Pugh and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis announced the latest approach to violence.
They would reassign 100 officers from mostly administrative posts to join street patrols.
They did not say where they would find the officers. But according to transfer documents obtained by The Baltimore Sun, nearly half were members of the Police Department's Community Collaboration Division — the unit that was expanded after the unrest of 2015 to rebuild relations with the community.
The reassignments slashed the unit by more than 80 percent.
A week later, Pugh and Davis appeared again in the same ornate room in City Hall to announce the agreement with the
U.S. Department of Justice to reform the department. Among the requirements: to "develop and implement community-engagement plans" to create opportunities for "routine and frequent positive interactions between officers and community members."
The
debate around resources and budgets, and whether the need to protect lives and property is in conflict with the march toward justice, isn't new. But analysts say it has become more complicated.
"It's not that you're just taking on a new challenge," said Samuel Walker, a professor emeritus of criminology and criminal justice at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. "You're taking on a whole new approach to policing.
"We are going to have to go the extra mile here to get over this initial learning process, this steep learning curve."
Justice Department investigators concluded that police in Baltimore routinely violated residents' constitutional rights, and most often in poor, predominantly black neighborhoods; used excessive force; dismissed sexual assault complaints improperly; and engaged improperly with protesters, youths and those with mental disabilities.
Under
the consent decree, officers will be required to contact a supervisor before making arrests for minor crimes such as resisting an officer or disorderly conduct. They will be barred from using restraints such as chokeholds, unless deadly force is authorized, and from stopping and detaining people who are in the company of others suspected of a crime without being able to make a case that they have committed a crime or are about to themselves.
They will be required to undergo new training. Techniques that have in recent decades become staples of the Baltimore police officer's tool kit — such as indiscriminatel
y "clearing corners" in trouble spots — would be prohibited. (heroin corner boys dealers)
Meanwhile,
violence in the city has grown in the 21 months since the death of Freddie Gray. The 25-year-old Baltimore man died in April 2015 after sustaining a severe spinal cord injury in police custody. On the day of his funeral, the c
ity erupted in arson, looting and riots.
Homicides in Baltimore jumped from 211 in 2014 to 344 in 2015 — the most, per capita, in city history. There were 318 more killings in 2016, the second deadliest year.
And with 28 homicides in the first 27 days, 2017 is now on pace to surpass both......
Lt. Gene Ryan, president of the police union local in Baltimore that represents rank-and-file officers, said there are "definitely going to be some challenges and a conflict" in Baltimore between the reforms and the crime fight.
"Some of the stuff that the DOJ recommended we think is unconstitutional, and the police commissioner already put into place some policies that we think are overreaching," he said.
He cites the department's new use-of-force policy, which imposes new limits on the circumstances under which officers can use weapons.
"It's going to restrict the police officers from actually being able to do their jobs," Ryan said.
Others — including law enforcement analysts and civil liberties advocates — disagree. They say past concerns that reforms would undermine the crime fight proved unfounded.
David Rocah, senior staff attorney at the ACLU of Maryland, said there is
"an inherent difficulty" in introducing reforms and dealing with high crime rates at the same time.