{"id":9861,"date":"2015-06-01T22:31:34","date_gmt":"2015-06-02T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=9861"},"modified":"2015-08-22T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2015-08-22T20:43:19","slug":"murders-spike-in-baltimore-cause-and-effect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thinblueflorida.com\/?p=9861","title":{"rendered":"Murders Spike in Baltimore–Cause and Effect?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"image\"<\/a>The number of murders in Baltimore during the month of May skyrocketed following the indictments of six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.\u00a0 Baltimore had 42 homicides in May 2015.\u00a0 Of cities with comparable populations, Baltimore’s homicides top those of Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, Louisville, and Nashville–combined!\u00a0 It is also eight more than in New York City, which has more than ten times the number of residents.<\/p>\n

Since the indictments, arrests in Baltimore have dropped by 56% from the number of arrests in May of 2014. \u00a0Fingers are being pointed in all directions.\u00a0 Residents have blamed the police for a lack of enforcement.\u00a0 FOP Lodge 3, representing the Baltimore PD, says officers are “under siege” in all districts of the city and that they fear they will make an honest mistake on the job and be criminally charged.\u00a0 The police commissioner says it is all a misunderstanding.<\/p>\n

With the Baltimore Police hamstrung by governing bodies and the criminal element empowered, a storm of civil disfunction churned record violence in the damaged city. Leaders inexplicably asked FEMA for tens of millions of dollars in “disaster relief”–in the wake of their own regrettable decisions. \u00a0FEMA slammed that door in their faces.<\/p>\n

The cause for Baltimore’s murders comes from a host of social ills, real and imagined. \u00a0The effect is forty casualties. \u00a0In the bigger picture, it would seem that many inner cities are just one police shooting away from being the next darling of the 24-hour news cycle. \u00a0I hate to say it, but we are a long way from the post-9\/11 appreciation citizens felt for their local peace officers and farther still from the respect people used to have for peace.<\/p>\n

Randall<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of murders in Baltimore during the month of May skyrocketed following the indictments of six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray.\u00a0 Baltimore had 42 homicides in May 2015.\u00a0 Of cities with comparable populations, Baltimore’s homicides top those of Boston, Denver, Las Vegas, Louisville, and Nashville–combined!\u00a0 It is also eight more than in New York City, which has more than ten times the number of residents. Since the indictments, arrests in Baltimore have dropped by 56% from the number of arrests in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[407,349],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t