In Baltimore?
Not if our city council has anything to say about it. Unfortunately, it looks like martial law — curfews, ID checks, etc — may be Baltimore’s only solution when it comes to fighting crime. Bring in the troops, I say! Our police are doing nothing, the city council and the mayor’s office are doing nothing — what are people supposed to do? How many of my neighbors have to be victimized — if it wasn’t real life, I’d swear I was living in an episode of The Wire. A show, by the way, I have never seen and will never watch. But that’s a post for another day.
Under our interim mayor, Sheila Dixon, crime has risen sharply — we’re not even into summer yet and already we’ve had over 120 homicides for the year. Our city council president’s plan is to recruit recent high school grads. Yikes. Our long-in-the-tooth officers are all but useless, and she’s looking to hire kids?? Because everyone knows an 18 year old with a gun is the most qualified to keep the streets safe. We have many 18 year olds with guns running the streets of Baltimore already — why not just give them badges and call it a day?
An incompetent police force, officers who refuse to take reports or answer calls, a mayor who deludes herself into thinking that she’s doing a fine job — and you wonder why people are leaving the city in droves again?
Yikes.
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