sonjay
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Right. But if you address the police problems by marching and screaming ' EFF DA POLICE' and " We Don't need no racist Police' and you have 30 agitators surround individual cops when they do try and investigate a disturbance--then what? How are the police supposed to do their jobs effectively? Why not protest the individual cops that have been abusive instead of berating and insulting ALL of the force?
When the cops see a suspicious car in a strip mall lot at 3 am, NO WAY are they going to go investigate it. Why would they? It is all bad for them if they do so. Dangerous physically, and if they do win in an altercation they have to run the public gauntlent.
In Vonderrit Meyers case you had a gang member wearing an ankle bracelet, out on bail for illegal weapons and resisting arrest, who ran from a cop, then turned and fired on him, before he was shot. And even that case was touch and go for the officer. The community was outraged at the shooting and said the cops planted the gun and the cop shot him in the back etc etc. But then when the hearing happened, NO EVIDENCE OF ANY OF THAT brought forward by all of those that shouted about it.
Why would a cop want to be in that position? A totally justified shooting, where one almost loses their own life or limb, only to be dragged through the mud publicly, and threatened with murder charges and receiving death threats.
No competent cop wants to be in that position. They can't stop people, talk to people, frisk people, or do any sort of proactive policing, because it's corrupt and racist and abuse of authority and oppressive. If they do stop anyone or arrest anyone, they're immediately surrounded by dozens of angry people ready to attack and riot. If they survive and manage to actually make an arrest, they're at risk of being charged criminally if they make any mistakes. Yet it's their fault that the criminals in Baltimore are emboldened by the leash on the police.
I predict that things are going to get a lot worse in B'more, because all of the good cops are going to leave B'more PD and go work somewhere with sane working conditions, in a city where the majority of residents, the city council, and the mayor actually support law enforcement. What's going to be left will be a Baltimore PD filled with the incompetent and corrupt cops who can't get work with a good police department.
I hope this little experiment works out well for Baltimore. At least it'll serve as an object lesson for the rest of us on how not to approach law enforcement.