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Happening now: Live tweeting #BaltimoreConsentDecree quarterly meeting w Judge Bredar on "progress" of reform by 2022 Baltimore Police #MichaelHarrisonBPD #MosbyIndictment
Jim Shea and Lisa Walden signed in to represent Baltimore's electeds and presumably the will of the community. Judge Bredar begins with an opening statement.
BREDAR: Reform hasn't taken hold in Baltimore prior to #MichaelHarrisonBPD is to a small part due to a lack of intestinal fortitude of prior leaders and but primarily bc of the distraction of the murders (that Mayor Jack Young is NOT committing). #gunviolence #badpress #quotas
On Friday, the Baltimore City Council will have a hearing on the police department budget. I scraped the numbers from the last 10 years of budgets and found the police allocation has gone from 20.02% of the 2010 budget to 26.5% 2021.
That's not the whole picture. 1/16
That's not the whole picture. 1/16
Note I am not a budget guy. I am a numbers & data guy. Most of what I know about the BPD is coming from the historical budgets, which are available on the city website. You too can see how the city has spent $4.74 billion in city funds on the police. 2/16
bbmr.baltimorecity.gov/budget-publica…
bbmr.baltimorecity.gov/budget-publica…
There has been a lot of reporting on the $509 million budget of the BPD, but that does not include a lot of things.
Do you think the Citiwatch camera program is part of the police budget? Its not. That's in the Office of Criminal Justice. 3/16
Do you think the Citiwatch camera program is part of the police budget? Its not. That's in the Office of Criminal Justice. 3/16
