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City Secure? Baltimore Is Averaging 1.3 Murders Per Day Since Riot
The widespread riots, looting, and indiscriminate arson may have subsided in Baltimore, but the violence has not. The vivid yet surreal images of a burning city along with real-time footage of stores being cleaned out with no intervention from law enforcement were set against the chilling rumor that the chaos began with a social media message calling for a citywide “purge” (after the film of the same name). By the early morning hours of April 28, the city lay in ashes and America’s race relations had suffered their most severe setback in years.
Three weeks later and most of America has moved on, believing that the drama is for the large part over, now that charges have been handed down against six officers and the Baltimore skyline is no longer ablaze. The reality on the ground however, is that since the riots, the murder rate in the city has skyrocketed, with 23 homicides in the last 18 days alone.
Here’s The Washington Post with more:
Although riots and protests after the death of Freddie Gray, who was injured in police custody, brought national attention to the city, the slayings have attracted little notice. They come as Baltimore works to recover from the unrest, with a police force demoralized by the arrests of six of its members — three of whom face murder or manslaughter charges in Gray’s death — and under the scrutiny of the Justice Department…
The protests and riots that roiled this city in the aftermath of Gray’s death quieted after the police officers were charged. But even as shops were looted and burned and 3,200 Maryland National Guard troops came to restore order, another type of violence was consuming Baltimore.
From mid-April to mid-May, 31 people were killed, and 39 others were wounded by gunfire. Twice, 10 people were shot on a single day. As of Friday, the deadly burst has pushed the city’s homicide count to 91, 21 above last year at the same time.
In the District, 40 people had been slain as of Friday, not including four people found dead Thursday in cases police said are being investigated as homicides but are awaiting a ruling by the medical examiner.
The spike since the riots has been remarkable...
...and most of the violence has occurred in West Baltimore...
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But out of sight, out of mind for the rest of the country and we imagine that just as high crime rates and a generalized sense of despair were ignored before the riots, so too will they be ignored now that the media spectacle has died down ... at least until the next "purge."
We'll close with the following quote from the police commissioner on April 28:
"The citizens are safe. The city is stable"
Indeed.
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More of Obumbler's "promises for the nation". How F'ed up to you have to be not to notice what a complete mess this nation is?
Must be racists killin' all the brothas in the hood.
They just need some space to destroy.
well.....It is getting warmer. You know how hard it is to get the motivation to go murder someone when it is cold.
Good thing that the police are backing off/out of this Obama-son filled hell hole.
The French are a smallish, monkey-looking bunch and not dressed any better, on average, than the citizens of Baltimore.
P. J. O'Rourke
My brother is the former mayor of Baltimore.
Nancy Pelosi
niggas killing other niggas... and here i was thinking they were good for nothing
dumb shit: you are one ignorant, racist prick.
Yes, I down voted you.
I'll live
still not close to detroit per captta.
Only a dim witted American such as yourself would bask in the 'glory' of being ignorant and dumb.
Pathetic.
Hey you know how it's customary to give those who fail some token award of encouragement..?
Completely unrelated, I upvoted you.
Otherwise, they are just obsolete farm equipment. Expel them all out of the US.
But the welfare plantation makes such a great vehicle for pork barrel spending..
http://freebeacon.com/issues/baltimore-received-1-8-billion-from-obamas-...
At a local level, the entire Africans in America Uplift Project is a scam. At the national level, Basic African Dysfunction is the perfect vehicle for Creeping Collectivist Control. Parasites Below, Parasites Above.
Dis is grate news
White folk don't kill blacks, just other blacks kill blacks.
It's called "outsourcing"
Bail-in-more
Murder rate goes up in the Spring & Summer because youths don't like the cold.
..."because youFs don't like the cold"
Death spirals are never pretty
I see what you did there (AVATAR)
"…with a police force demoralized" by being deprived of the ability to abuse and kill citizens.
I don't believe I've ever been to baltimore. Been to Camden, which is not the right place for a white boy at 2am.
...or any other time either.
AWESOME! The drug dealing parasites are beginning to self eradicate. Mabel, please nuke me some popcorn :-)
ENJOY THE DECLINE
'the drug dealing parasites are beginning to self eradicate.."
Hey, no brain, did you ever think that drug dealing pharma companies are, 'parasites'?
They kill, addict many, many more than the illicit drugs.
Maybe, you should use whatever reason you can scrape up during breaks in Gospel hour to figure out this riddle.
Thread jack,
3 days after the event Beck said it was about running guns to syria. Now we know for sure.
Put them in jail
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/05/breaking-rand-paul-was-right-oba...
Anyone re-opening a business there is nuts.
But, but, but, it will be a food desert....
And finally free at last of Waycist White Businesses, they will be free to exercise their ancient African Culinary Culture. Let them eat each other.
Behold the results of decade after decade of leftwing, liberal progressive 'policies'. The end result is always the same...
Liberalism always generates the opposite outcome from its stated intent. It never fails.
Maybe then if they purposely try to bankrupt the country, we'll all become rich? Naa... too fairy tailish...
Ditto Conserv-atism. Ditto et al.
1.3/day? What da fuck? I guess sooner or later they will run out of dwarfs and we can get a decent solid daily number...not this "point 3" shit...What is this? Game of Thrones? Are we up to our ass in dwarves all of a sudden? Oh wait, that was not cool, not cool at all..of course we are up to our ass in dwarves!...Fuck you Walt Disney!
What happens there is one guy is mortally wounded. Takes three days to die.
In Leftist terms, what Obama/Jarrett are doing is just "emphasizing the contradictions."
No brothas killed I hope.
1.3 people murdered .... that would be 2 Negros ?
No that is 3.2 white trash no for goods like yourself, monetas, you racist scum.
Living in a dump...it's a put on...do-dodo-do doot.
Can't we all live in peace ???
I'd rather live with a piece and leave everyone else in Camden.
It's , "peace", you ignoramus.
It's , "peace", you ignoramus.
oudinot, You should not have a comma between "it's" and "peace." If a comma did belong there it would go directly after the "s" in the word it's. There should not be a space between the "s" and the comma. Also, your second comma, if you choose to keep it, should be inside of the quotation mark at the end of the word peace, not outside of the quotation marks.
Good job of calling someone an ignoramus. It makes you look very "smart." Of course "a piece" is slang for a gun. But I'm sure that you knew that.
No, he had no idea...
The siege guns of welfare servitude lay waste...
Haiku ?
Wait wait... let me guess.. old white guys kiliing black children. Old white taxpayers too, probably.
IF a white cop didn't do it.... it's not news
No mo' polar bears to beez huntin' and shit.
Da done gone extinct sittin' on day fat furry white asses drinking Coka Colas and shiite.
So shipping millions of jobs to China...billions in bank bailouts...and endless wars with million dollar bombs creating hollowed out farked up cities...who wouldv'e thought...this is what happens when your priorities are screwed...
Or are you insinuating something else?...let me guess it's blacky's fault...again.
Wrong, blacks wouldn't work those jobs anyway, not with whites giving them free money. White men are stupid tax donkeys.
"They're jealous of our Freedom!"
Hey guys, it's called SPRING.
Happens every spring. They get cooped up during the winter and all that pent up aggression/rage/"beef" gets let out when it warms up.
Not just Baltimore, it's every city in the USA.
Weather be waycist. It should be like Africa, when it's always a fine day for rape, robbery, and murder. Climate Change Now!
City full of blacks and high homicide rate, who would have thought it could happen? In any case, this article must be racist!