{"id":76881,"date":"2018-01-02T10:52:57","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:52:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76881"},"modified":"2018-01-02T10:59:09","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T15:59:09","slug":"baltimore-residents-blaming-murder-increase-on-lack-of-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=76881","title":{"rendered":"Baltimore Residents Blaming Murder Increase on Lack of Police"},"content":{"rendered":"

Breitbart<\/a> is reporting residents are blaming the city\u2019s soaring murder rate on a lack of policing, three years after the Freddy Gray riots. Black Lives Matter (BLM), an activist group, insisted policed presence be curtailed, and city hall acquiesced. As a result, civic leaders are blaming the police for the high murder rate, and that the pullback has put them in danger.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Kinji Scott, a Baltimore activist, is blaming city hall for leaving the neighborhoods unprotected.<\/p>\n

Scott and others are now pressuring the city to bring police back in as a deterrent to the soaring crime rate. Despite the loud proclamations from BLM activists that the police are the problem, Scott and his fellow activists are now claiming that they never wanted police to go away.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In an NPR interview, Scott states only activists like BLM wanted the police removed:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo. That represented our progressives, our activists, our liberal journalists, our politicians, but it did not represent the overall community. Because we know for a fact that around the time Freddie Gray was killed, we start to see homicides increase. We had five homicides in that neighborhood while we were protesting.<\/p>\n

What I wanted to see happen was that people would be able to trust the relationship with our police department so that they would feel more comfortable. We\u2019d have conversations with the police about crime in their neighborhood because they would feel safer. So we wanted the police there. We wanted them engaged in the community. We didn\u2019t want them beating the hell out of us, we didn\u2019t want that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He also blamed the city for failing to foster a community atmosphere between the police and the neighborhoods. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe primary thrust nationwide is what President Obama wanted to do: focus on building relationships with police departments and major cities where there had been a history of conflict. That hasn\u2019t happened. We don\u2019t see that. I don\u2019t know a city\u2014Baltimore for certain\u2014we\u2019ve not seen any changes in those relationships. What we have seen is that the police has distanced themselves, and the community has distanced themselves even further. So the divide has really intensified, it hasn\u2019t decreased.<\/p>\n

And of course we want to delineate the whole culture of bad policing that exists\u2014nobody denies that\u2014but as a result of this, we don\u2019t see the level of policing we need in our community to keep the crime down in our cities that we are seeing bleed to death.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An unethical prosecutor and an incompetent Mayor have diminished and demoralized the police department; small wonder the cops aren\u2019t very interested in leaving their patrol cars. Now the good Reverend wants his cake and eat it, too? Careful what you ask for…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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