You clueless wonder. They reached a breaking point because the BPD cannot solve violent crimes and arrest those offenders in meaningful numbers. Why? Because we trained the last three generations of cops to make horseshit drug stats and not to do essential police work...
https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1402988442955386883
Baltimore is a city in which we spent decades drug warring and mass incarcerating our way to a 350-percent increase in drug arrests while the clearance rates for murder, rape, robbery, and agg assaults collapsed by more than 50 percent. Why? Because we lost ourselves...
...clearing corners and throwing everybody into jail wagons and promoting and paying the cops doing that bullshit. Meanwhile, sergeants and lieutenants couldn't train a squad to retroactively solve a crime or properly protect a post to save their fucking lives...
..It's the elemental thing that every bullshit drug warriors never tell you because they never see what happens on the street: The drug war didn't inhibit drug abuse in any way measurable; every drug is available everywhere in the U.S. But it simultaneously destroyed police work.
@JackPosobiec and the herd of gibbering ideologues who follow him RT this shit like evidence that Baltimore has a fundamental failure on their hands is some kind of defense of the drug war. It's the opposite. The drug war is the fucking 50-year failure here. We lived it in full..
...and now we have a police department that used to clear 70 percent of its murders, but has now been trained to haul bodies for drug possession, loitering and failure to yield but can't kick the arrest rate for homicide higher than 35 percent. That made Baltimore bleed....
...And these internet wonders, straining everything through their Democrat v. Republican agenda, don't have a clue. This isn't about Democrats running Baltimore, or Washington for that matter. It's about both Democrats and Republicans buying into a grand national failure...
...for half a fucking century. It begins with Nixon but it's ratcheted up harshly by Reagan and Clinton both. And both parties and all but 5 fucking Senators voted for the 1994 omnibus. Both parties and damn near every last politician since 1968 has a hand on this throttle...
...And these ignorant squibs are still running around on the internet as if more drug warring is going to fix something. Not only have we lost police competence from worshipping at this disaster, we've butchered the 4th Amendment with stop-and-frisk, street sweeps and...
...standardized police perjury on drug arrests in every court in the land, so that few of those policed in places like Baltimore believe police testimony as jurors, or will cooperate as witnesses when they and their relatives have been lied on routinely. And in the name of the..
...drug war, we encouraged exactly what a war requires, a militarization that made routine the use of force, often indiscriminate force -- brutality which might have continued for decades under the banner of a thin-blue-line-against-rampant-gangsterism except, no, someone...
...finally invented smart phones with cameras on them, so now, despite the fevered dreams of angry ideologues like these mutts, we can never go back to those levels of police violence again. They are unsustainable because suddenly, technology has made clear that...
...the use of even lethal force is on many occasions unwarranted, if not criminal. Police departments who were trained on the premise that they could do anything in the name of fighting this war are suddenly exposed for, well, doing anything. And the cameras are here to stay...
The only answer, for anyone with even the most marginal brain, is to walk the fuck away from drug prohibition and return the mission of policing to targeting actual felonies and arresting the right motherfuckers for those crimes. Protect and serve. With an emphasis on targeted...
...deployments, a premium on intelligence-gathering and competent retroactive investigation. Are there enough police left in drug-warring American cities capable of that mission? In Baltimore, I have my doubts. But until we change the mission, we will bleed. And every idiot..
...who keeps squealing about resurrecting or expanding the drug war is someone who doesn't know a fucking thing about what has happened to policing over the last thirty years.
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