Something Went Wrong In Baltimore

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It has been a bloody year in Baltimore, that much everyone knows, but as The Economist shows, something changed dramatically after Freddie Gray's death in April...

On November 14th the police department reported the city’s 300th homicide in 2015, a total not seen since 1999.

 

The surge in killings in the majority-black city of roughly 623,000 began after the death on April 19th of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old black man who was fatally injured while in police custody. Since Mr Gray’s death the city has recorded 244 homicides, a 78% increase over the same period in 2014, representing more than 100 additional deaths.

Criminologists and city officials disagree as to the causes:

  • Some say police have deliberately pulled back from poor, black neighbourhoods, a theory that the police disputes.
  • Others blame an influx of drugs from pharmacies looted during the April riots.
  • A third theory is that a decline in trust between the police and the policed has had deadly consequences: fewer residents talk to the police, which leads to fewer murders being solved, which - by lowering the odds of being caught - results in more murders.

Whatever the reason, the killing continues. Just hours after the 300th murder, police reported a shooting in the city’s Westport neighbourhood, the fourth homicide of the day. The total for the year now stands at 305.

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Sat, 01/02/2016 - 11:09 | 6987989 Oldwood
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Be more compliant and less resistive. Let our government decide what is best. We are not supposed to be judgmental, only the collective can judge, only the elites can know right from wrong.

And please always remember...everything you see, hear or experience is strictly anecdotal and NOT VALID. Reality is a delusion.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:17 | 6986950 joego1
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Human defaults.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:28 | 6986964 One And Only
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I blame George Bush and all Republicans including Donald Trump who is most at fault.

Jesus and Ron Paul are also at fault.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:12 | 6987068 silverer
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You forgot to mention George Bush twice.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:53 | 6986968 chinoslims
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A cop has a great salary, great pension, and great benefits.  He and his family enjoys this great standard of living.  Why the fuck would any cop do any proactive policing and end up on the front page of the newspaper?  Being on the frontpage of a newspaper probably means goodbye pension, benefits, family and salary.

Hence, crime and homicides spike.

Of course, stupid ass liberal policies such as welfare dont contribute to crime at all.  Why would anyone commit a crime if they were working (unless you are a bankster)?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:25 | 6986974 didthatreallyhappen
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whoops

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:28 | 6986986 hotrod
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City hasn't been the same since the Colts left

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:33 | 6986997 ThrowAwayYourTV
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Hahaha! Good point.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:48 | 6987240 Sanity Bear
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Baltimore hasn't been the same since the Tories left.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:32 | 6986990 Ronaldo
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give them all guns

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:49 | 6987032 gatorengineer
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better idea not pay for additional welfare babies, and have free abortion on demand.  It will take 12 years but that will fix the problem.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:49 | 6987242 kiwimail
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Machine guns!

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:33 | 6986992 ThrowAwayYourTV
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If you were a cop would you go into a poor black neighborhood?

would 1000 to 1 mean anything to you? Stay away, let them eat themselves.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:08 | 6987064 silverer
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At the speed limit with your siren on from a long way off, stopping a 1/2 block short of the reported incident address.  Carefully check your weapon, get on the loadspeaker, and announce your presence.  Then, slowly step out of the car after your backup arrives, and start talking to the nearest residents about what they think they heard, progressing toward the crime scene very carefully after a good ten minute conversation with potential witnesses.  in the meantime, whoever it was, is in the next county.  File a really great report, then head to the doughnut shop.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 08:54 | 6987746 NoPension
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But-A-Bing

Butta- Boom!

But-A- Bang!

And there you have it Silverer. The way DC and PG County cops (way niggered up for much longer) have rolled for years.

Prince George County is adjacent to DC. It's a fucking nigger zoo, and has been for years. I could write a book. Ran a store there at one time.
Minor appology for being blunt. It is what it is.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:23 | 6988166 sunnyside
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Lived in Cheverly and Oxon Hill in the '70's and '80's.  Couldn't pay me to go back.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:35 | 6987000 buzzsaw99
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nuke it from orbit. it's the only way to be sure. [/aliens]

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:40 | 6987003 stormsailor
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you can't talk about the 71 percent thats profiling and racist and non-pc, and micro-aggressive.  where's the safe area, hint  anywhere where the 71 percent of violent criminals are not, lol

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:44 | 6987014 snodgrass
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Biting the Hand That Holds Out the Olive Branch

December 28, 2015

I’ve noticed a trend: The more that white people apologize, the more they get mocked. The more they concede, the more that is demanded of them. The more frequently they make gestures of goodwill, the more they get emotionally sandblasted with malicious rhetoric about how “whiteness” is a poison that needs to be uprooted and eradicated. And what’s bitterly funny is that these well-meaning but fatally clueless Caucasoids can’t seem to figure out why this is happening.

The reason is simple: Self-hatred is never attractive, neither individually nor collectively, no matter who’s expressing it. It didn’t reflect well on blacks when movie clowns such as Mantan Moreland was bugging his eyes out and saying “Feets don’t fail me now!,” nor was it appealing when the heavy-lidded Stepin Fetchit played a shuffling, servile black idiot in every appearance.

Yet the default Virtue Mode these days for any white person who doesn’t want to be forever banished beyond the Pale—or should that be into the Pale?—is to bend over, grab their ankles, wince, and scream, “Pleeze, Massa, don’t hurt me!” They are sheltered and stupid enough to see such behavior as a virtue rather than a weakness. They appear to view it as a survival strategy rather than an invitation to murder.

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Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:45 | 6987019 Cabreado
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Ah, racism is easy.

And if you think there's a "black" problem,
go on and defend by neglect the grand destructionists who consider the race issue nothing more than a welcome distraction.

Be stupid, skirt the real hardcore issue, 'til it all falls down.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 21:47 | 6987024 stonehands
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We live in a warped society that promotes alcohol use, despite the inherit carnage that invariably results. Perhaps all drugs should be decriminalized- but legalized and taxed and PROMOTED? NO!

Just because something is not illegal, doesn't make it expedient or convenient to do. When people drink booze they make irrational, emotional, often violent decisions. People in the hood have been inculcated by the American Myth of "putting your drink on".

A childs education should always begin with the premise that altering your consciousness is a lousy idea.

 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:58 | 6987255 Sanity Bear
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you had me up until that last line - puritanism is just another unhealthy extreme

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:58 | 6987045 Duc888
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As another poster pointed out earlier on another thread.  More people get smoked each week in Shitcago...than got "shot" at Sandy Hoax.

 

#someblacklivesmatter

#othersnotsomuch.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:03 | 6987261 TheReplacement
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It goes without saying that of course this is true since nobody died at Sandy Hoax.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:03 | 6987056 silverer
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This is an unnerving chart.  And they really don't know why?  I sure hope it's not contagious. 

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:08 | 6987063 DontWorry
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How does this compare to other similar cities during the same timeframe?  Is it a problem nationwide, regionally, or limited to Baltimore?

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:30 | 6987367 Rock On Roger
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Looking at the charts it appears a comparison has been made.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 05:00 | 6987511 DontWorry
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If you look closely, you'll realize the chart is deceptive -- the blue lines stop at 2014, the red line continues to 2015, so no comparison has been made.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:14 | 6987070 ShrNfr
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Meanwhile in Chicago: 2015 saw nearly 470 homicides in Chicago, where more than 2,900 people were shot. Chicago had the most violent year of all major U.S. cities, its worst since 2012, when 500 people were killed.

Score at the end of the first quarter today (5 pm) : 2 dead, 15 wounded in city shootings

Stats from: http://www.chicagotribune.com

Obama should be made to take his vacations there without Secret Service protection.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:58 | 6987256 Bay of Pigs
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Chicago final stats for this year.

 

Final 2015 Totals
Shot & Killed: 442
Shot & Wounded: 2553
Total Shot: 2995
Total Homicides: 499

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:05 | 6987263 TheReplacement
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I would be willing to wager that the % of edged weapons attacks that resulted in fatalities was higher than firearms.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:22 | 6987351 Sir John Bagot Glubb
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The baseball bat is supposed to be the number 1 killer.....makes sense because it is surely the easiest to use...

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:39 | 6988221 stormsailor
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ban assault-bats?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:28 | 6987090 Kprime
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It's black bush's fault

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:40 | 6988226 stormsailor
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what does kim kardashian have to do with this?

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:34 | 6987098 lincolnsteffens
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This is all part of the bigger plan. Why is the most important knowledge of how to best navigate through life and raise well balanced healthy children not part of public school education? It is because the ones that control the education system don't want a thinking, reasoning aware public. It is not profitable. Besides those that are not high on the useful planning of all this regard everyone else as useful ignorant sheep to be sheared and eaten.

The blacks are useful to be kept further down and abused by sick sociopaths who are the lighter skin brand. It is just evil for evil's sake and profit/ego. If the rioting starts in the black ghettos you can bet it will be benefiting the .001% at the top. They don't care about the black carnage or the lighter skinned people that will be collateral damage.

People that hate or demean any class, race, nationality are just useful tools. I'm sorry to say that a large number of the people that post on ZH while more insightful the the average population have been made into useful tools as well. I don't exclude myself from that category but at least I am trying to break the hold that mind control has had on me since birth. Zero Hedgers demeaning blacks, jews, muslims, mexicans, poor white trash,  etc. with hateful diatribes are merely an open display to planners of your downfall that their plan is working just fine. I'm not saying go hug a gang banger, I'm just saying that the majority of any class are nothing like the wretched refuse that the sickest ones are.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:42 | 6987127 goldsansstandard
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Black Matter Lives.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 22:50 | 6987141 bankonzhongguo
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The answer is easy.

The police are just disinforming their CIs which propagates actions on the street which is spawning a wider range of killings of petty drug turfs.

All they are saying is "Noopi is gonna get your boss if Mustafa don't act first." Then they tell Noopi, "Mustafa is is lookin' for you."

Rinse and repeat.

Nobody is getting promoted by detecting crimes. It's all about robbing the crooks.

From the Feds on down.

The police just assume all these low-lifes just off each other and let the coroner do the paperwork.

Go talk to David Simon.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:27 | 6987201 Crush the cube
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Put some Ukrainian snipers on the roofs, shoot them all, again.  Nuland, where are ya.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:41 | 6987224 NoWayJose
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They might 'deny' it, but Baltimore cops are slower to get to domestic disturbances, slower to get to robberies, etc. Why should they risk confronting a 'black' criminal in a 'black neighborhood'? The cop wants to go home 'alive', see his family, and collect his pension. Why arrest anyone when the mayor and police chief do not have your back, and judges turn them loose right away? Confronting a criminal means you might get shot, or get arrested yourself for 'police brutality'. Far better to grab a cup of coffee and get there AFTER the shooting or dispute is over. Logically, WHY would a cop hurry into a potential mess in Baltimore?

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:06 | 6987265 TheReplacement
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Seems reasonable.  When seconds count the cops are just minutes away so give up your right to defend yourself and get a check every month.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:44 | 6987233 The Ram
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Baltimore - self cleaning oven.

Fri, 01/01/2016 - 23:49 | 6987243 NoWayJose
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The solution in Baltimore is the same as the one we are using against ISIS - parachute drop thousands of guns and millions of rounds of ammo into the City!

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:00 | 6987258 quasi_verbatim
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Seen scrawled on a subway wall:

 

Ameroon. n. definition:

An inhabitant of the North American continent of no distinct race (oftentimes referred to as “mixed race”). The term Ameroon supplants the former quadroon, octoroon and quintroon and asserts that any admixture of the European and African genome repeatedly interfused over multiple generations cannot adequately be assessed for its varying proportionality and therefore the adverse effects of such proportionality upon cultural, behavioral, emotional and moral intelligence cannot accurately be determined.

It is self-evident that those of an indeterminate racial ancestry are of no particular racial identity; hence the need for this new and encompassing yet non-discriminatory descriptive classification.

Ameroons may have between 1% and 99% European genetic material and not be European. The corollary is true, in that Ameroons may have between 1% and 99% African genetic material and not be African. Toward each end of this genetic spectrum Ameroons may 'pass for white', or 'pass for black'. (Ameroons of course only need concern themselves with passing for black when visiting or residing in Africa.)

The term 'mulatto' remains valid, as signifying possession of one European parent and one African parent. All Ameroons have by definition at least one such mulatto in their near parentage or in their distant parentage, at the nth generation removed. Seen in its distinct European-African context the classification 'Afro-American' for any particular individual implies a mulatto status. But true mulatto status occurs far less frequently and is far less significant than the overwhelming number who should be more properly classified as Ameroon, as defined above.

Application of the descriptive 'Ameroon' does not address the issue of mixed descent from other non-European ancestry (i.e non-African ancestry). Whether the decades-long 'mestizo' northward migration and settlement of the United States can be viewed as an Ameroon incursion is doubtful. Migration of Asiatic, Semitic and Islamic hordes into the United States can perhaps best be described as the New Mongol Invasions.

 

Source: unknown.

 

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:08 | 6987266 truthalwayswinsout
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This is actually all part of the Progressive Democratic National Socialist plan to exterminate the White race. This is their attempt to start a race war against the White Race. But it is backfiring.

With abortion, black on black killings and cops killing blacks there will be very few left in another generation.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 10:04 | 6987857 snodgrass
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Obama has a plan for that too. He's issued yet another executive order that requires that low income (ie black/hispanic) housing be built in middle and upper class neighborhoods. That way he can ghettoize the entire country and make it even easier for minorities to kill whites.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 00:36 | 6987307 Sedaeng
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480 homicides in chicago for 2015

2986 shooting victims in chicago for 2015

http://crime.chicagotribune.com/chicago/shootings

Murder and Manslaughter for detroit in 2015 13,996?  <--is this number correct?!

http://www.cityrating.com/crime-statistics/

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 01:41 | 6987377 G.O.O.D
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Preliminary figures through 8:30 p.m. Thursday showed there were 295 people killed in the city in 2015, compared to 300 the previous year, when Detroit recorded the fewest number of homicides since 1967. Police are expected to release the final count next week.

 

According to detroit press

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 11:21 | 6988006 Oldwood
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The breakdown of our social structure is but another cyclical ploy as a means of redistributing wealth to the few at the top. We see it withing neighborhoods and entire cities where services and development...law enforcement are all withheld to allow property values to decline. Once bottomed out, monied developers come in and buy up the depressed properties and government starts dumping vast amounts of TAXPAYER money into revitalization projects causing property values to skyrocket. This serves the wealthy but also creates ever more dependency on government. People no longer own their communities, the communities are owned by a cooperative of wealth and government.

There is nothing racist, ideological or even political about it. Is is only about power and the desire to dominate.

I'm all for collectivism as long as it is limited to a maximum of twenty people per collective.

Sat, 01/02/2016 - 12:36 | 6988209 Dickweed Wang
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Murder and Manslaughter for detroit in 2015 13,996?  <--is this number correct?!

 

TOTAL BULLSHIT!!!  All of you morons that have never even been to SE Michigan need to back off on Detroit.  There are plenty of shit holes in the USA that are MUCH WORSE.  I know because I live in the Detroit area and have been to every major city in the USA over the last 30 years.  Ever been to Newark, NJ?  How about the New Orleans, LA area?  How about the hood in Chicago?  East LA??  St. Louis?? Give me a fucking break . . . .

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