The analogy did remind me of any number of blighted communities that are taken over by immigrants (which quickly take a hard line stance towards the ghetto dwellers).
Obama on Baltimore: We must prioritize the fight against urban poverty
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The analogy did remind me of any number of blighted communities that are taken over by immigrants (which quickly take a hard line stance towards the ghetto dwellers).
yes... absolutely... all abled body people must get jobs... and then we can supplement their job with training, healthcare and extra money, if need be.
workfare instead of welfare... its better for everybody but the politicians.
workfare instead of welfare... its better for everybody but the politicians.
We must prioritize the fight against the "myth" that all of these problems are due to "urban unemployment".
Nice platitude!
You can't make people work when they don't want to work.
I'm really just a spectator at this point, rather like you actually. None of my money goes to welfare, not a penny. My beef is the moral idea that we must support thugs so that they don't do thuggish stuff.
I still have to pay some property taxes but those go towards local services and the school district which I'm comfortable with. Property taxes are basically unavoidable anywhere in the world if you hold title to property there.
Lets give each thug $100k per anum and maybe a new car each year to go with the free housing, free groceries, free internet, free cellular service etc. I'm sure all inner-city crime would stop instantly, right?
Arrest Data That May Help Explain The Baltimore Riots
Many of the Baltimore residents protesting the April 19 death of Freddie Gray in police custody have said they or someone they know has been treated unfairly by police. Data from a major lawsuit against the city shows that police have indeed had a habit of improper arrests in the recent past.
In 2006, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action complaint alleging a pattern of false arrests. Of more than 76,000 people arrested the previous year, prosecutors declined to charge 25,000 with any crime -- meaning roughly 30 percent of the arrests were basically bogus. In a 2010 settlement the city agreed to reform its police practices, though last year the Baltimore Sun reported on a persisting pattern of police brutality.
The website Vocativ created a visualization of the number of false arrests:
Many of the Baltimore residents protesting the April 19 death of Freddie Gray in police custody have said they or someone they know has been treated unfairly by police. Data from a major lawsuit against the city shows that police have indeed had a habit of improper arrests in the recent past.
In 2006, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action complaint alleging a pattern of false arrests. Of more than 76,000 people arrested the previous year, prosecutors declined to charge 25,000 with any crime -- meaning roughly 30 percent of the arrests were basically bogus. In a 2010 settlement the city agreed to reform its police practices, though last year the Baltimore Sun reported on a persisting pattern of police brutality.
The website Vocativ created a visualization of the number of false arrests:
6 decades of democratic rule in baltimore, and supposedly republicans are the racists who are holding black people down, lol.
Arrest Data That May Help Explain The Baltimore Riots
Many of the Baltimore residents protesting the April 19 death of Freddie Gray in police custody have said they or someone they know has been treated unfairly by police. Data from a major lawsuit against the city shows that police have indeed had a habit of improper arrests in the recent past.
In 2006, the American Civil Liberties Union filed a class action complaint alleging a pattern of false arrests. Of more than 76,000 people arrested the previous year, prosecutors declined to charge 25,000 with any crime -- meaning roughly 30 percent of the arrests were basically bogus. In a 2010 settlement the city agreed to reform its police practices, though last year the Baltimore Sun reported on a persisting pattern of police brutality.
The website Vocativ created a visualization of the number of false arrests:
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So the premise is the police just went out and arrested people randomly? Or did they arrest them for quality of life type crimes that prosecutors couldn't be bothered to prosecute?
Anyone has has actually been to Baltimore would laugh at the idea that the problem is over aggressive policing. The problem is a city taken over by thugs. Tourists get beaten and robbed outside their hotels. The only safe spot, by the stadiums, was where the riots took place. Probably just a coincidence that they started rioting where they saw white people.
A former mayor, democrat presidential candidate Martin O'malley, was apparently the one who started teh aggressive NYC-style policing.
Anyone has has actually been to Baltimore would laugh at the idea that the problem is over aggressive policing. The problem is a city taken over by thugs. Tourists get beaten and robbed outside their hotels. The only safe spot, by the stadiums, was where the riots took place. Probably just a coincidence that they started rioting where they saw white people.
A former mayor, democrat presidential candidate Martin O'malley, was apparently the one who started teh aggressive NYC-style policing.
I've read that the current mayor took a much more "liberal" policy towards actually enforcing the law...IOW, the decline in the "crime rate" has absolutely nothing to do with less crime committed and EVERYTHING to do with a "hand's off" approach to enforcement...Hence, the stand down order was just more of the same in that neck of the woods...
These moronic leftists simply can't see straight...