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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:19:20 AM EST
Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death. A wave of killings followed.
BALTIMORE – Just before a wave of violence turned Baltimore into the nation’s deadliest big city, a curious thing happened to its police force: officers suddenly seemed to stop noticing crime. Police officers reported seeing fewer drug dealers on street corners. They encountered fewer people who had open arrest warrants. Police questioned fewer people on the street. They stopped fewer cars. ... But some officers drew a different lesson: “Officers no longer put themselves on the firing line,” says Victor Gearhart, a retired lieutenant who supervised the overnight shift in Baltimore’s southern district before he was pushed out of the department for referring to Black Lives Matter activists as “thugs” in an email. “These guys aren’t stupid. They realize that if they do something wrong, they’re going to get their head bit off. There’s no feeling that anybody’s behind them anymore, and they’re not going to do it,” he says. “Nobody wants to put their head in the pizza oven when the pizza oven is on.” Gearhart and other officers say no one ordered them to make fewer stops or take fewer risks. "We didn't have to tell them," he says. "We just said these are the facts, this is the situation, and if you want to risk your career, have at it." 
Former Baltimore Police Lt. Vic Gearhart, pictured at his Baltimore County, Md. home, says "officers no longer put themselves on the firing line." (Photo: Doug Kapustin, for USA TODAY) |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:21:03 AM EST
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Can you blame them? People get the type of police they deserve.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:23:53 AM EST
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Its gonna get worse too.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:26:47 AM EST
[#3]
An utter shithole run by neanderthals. I wouldn't lift a finger if I was a cop there.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:27:00 AM EST
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I have a friend who left Baltimore PD in the post Freddy period to go Fed. The article jibes with what he told me.
He also relayed that officers home addresses got leaked on a regular basis. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:27:19 AM EST
[#5]
Gearheart's screenname?
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:27:57 AM EST
[#6]
My shocked face is getting tired.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:29:02 AM EST
[#7]
Smile and wave.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:30:16 AM EST
[#8]
The people of Baltimore getting the policing they want?
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:32:17 AM EST
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LOL, screw bodimore, the police should all quit that dump.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:35:03 AM EST
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:35:17 AM EST
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And again the media/politicians show themselves completely out of step with regular folks, to whom this was plainly obvious.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:35:59 AM EST
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Smile and wave. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:36:27 AM EST
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:38:04 AM EST
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I'm surprised there is still a police force there.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:38:05 AM EST
[#15]
These things happen.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:38:42 AM EST
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At the root of it all they are just employees, and don't really get paid that well unless they make it to pension age.
Shitty management practices, breed employees that are only there for the check. Who'd a thunk it? |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:40:37 AM EST
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Interesting. It's a USAToday article, and the language isn't what we've been seeing lately from the MSM. "Pushed out for a comment" instead of "forced out after racist email."
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:42:35 AM EST
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The people of Baltimore getting the policing they want? They must reflect the populace. And now they do. Everyone should be happy now. except the dead guys. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:42:48 AM EST
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Can you blame them? People get the type of police they deserve. 
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:43:15 AM EST
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Smile and wave. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:44:21 AM EST
[#21]
Well this result was about as surprising as the sun coming up this morning
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:47:21 AM EST
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Doesn't surprise me at all. No cop is going to risk going to jail just for doing their job.
The politicians are getting the policing they wanted. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:48:39 AM EST
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As luck would have it, there's a two liter of Coke Zero on my desk just waiting for some ice.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 8:54:06 AM EST
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And yet the police-hating DA, who is being sued for malicious prosecution, recently got re-nominatedmto run again.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:18:13 AM EST
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“What it says is that if you complain about the way the police do our job, maybe we’ll just lay back and not do it as hard,” says Jeffery Robinson, a deputy legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union, which had advocated for an overhaul of police agencies in Baltimore and elsewhere. “If it’s true, if that’s what officers are doing, they should be fired.” |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:33:45 AM EST
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Didn't the same thing happen in Chicago. The residents begged the Police to come back.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:37:32 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol Dissolve the BPD altogether. Win-Win. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:40:20 AM EST
[#28]
But arf wants less goverment
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:41:04 AM EST
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Cops get prosecuted for enforcing the law.
Cops stop enforcing the law. Then crime is supposed to decrease while no one gets arrested because arrests (and cops) are racist. Instead, crime increases. Who could have seen that coming? Why it's almost as if people responded to rewards and punishments. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 9:42:23 AM EST
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WOMP WOMP.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:07:38 AM EST
[#31]
#ohwell
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:14:11 AM EST
[#32]
The article leaves out in large part that the reason for this was the absolutely phony murder charges that the black city leadership trumped up against all the police officers involved, black & white alike.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:14:56 AM EST
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And that is how you get the crime statistics to go down. You don't make the black kids angry.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:14:58 AM EST
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:21:20 AM EST
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The traffic enforcement around Atlanta definitely seems to have slacked off around certain areas since that timeframe.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:23:13 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted: lol 
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:25:31 AM EST
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Yes it will get worse....
I don't blame them. Who wants to lose everything over nothing. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:26:16 AM EST
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It's Baltimore, gentlemen, the gods will not save you. Kharn |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:36:54 AM EST
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Black communities need the police the most. This is utterly unsurprising to anybody who isn't blinded by modern multicultural orthodoxy.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:42:23 AM EST
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The people of Baltimore getting the policing they want? |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 10:48:40 AM EST
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According to GD, the Lieutenant's Gadsden Flag sticker and TBL sticker are oxymoronic.
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:00:36 AM EST
[#42]
Smile and wave, smile and wave!
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:01:29 AM EST
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The people of Baltimore getting the policing they want? |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:03:42 AM EST
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Quote HistoryQuoted:
But arf wants less goverment |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:06:07 AM EST
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Cops get prosecuted for enforcing the law. Cops stop enforcing the law. Then crime is supposed to decrease while no one gets arrested because arrests (and cops) are racist. Instead, crime increases. Who could have seen that coming? Why it's almost as if people responded to rewards and punishments. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:09:54 AM EST
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What law were they enforcing? The BS auto knife law that they were trying to stretch to include an assisted opening pocket knife? I would rather have no police than have ass hats like that. Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cops get prosecuted for enforcing the law. Cops stop enforcing the law. Then crime is supposed to decrease while no one gets arrested because arrests (and cops) are racist. Instead, crime increases. Who could have seen that coming? Why it's almost as if people responded to rewards and punishments. Kharn |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:10:33 AM EST
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Can you blame them? People get the type of police they deserve. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:11:04 AM EST
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According to GD, the Lieutenant's Gadsden Flag sticker and TBL sticker are oxymoronic. |
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:12:05 AM EST
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According to SSC, the expression is "Stay Fetal".
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Posted: 7/12/2018 11:14:01 AM EST
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Baltimore city code bans assisted opening, Maryland law allows them. Note how carefully Mosby tread that line during all of her press conferences. Kharn Quote HistoryQuoted:
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Cops get prosecuted for enforcing the law. Cops stop enforcing the law. Then crime is supposed to decrease while no one gets arrested because arrests (and cops) are racist. Instead, crime increases. Who could have seen that coming? Why it's almost as if people responded to rewards and punishments. Kharn (a) Possession or sale, etc., prohibited. It shall be unlawful for any person to sell, carry, or possess any knife with an automatic spring or other device for opening and/or closing the blade, commonly known as a switch-blade knife. Assisted opening knives are not commonly known as a "switch-blade knife" unless of course you are trying to railroad someone. |
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