New: How to cut crime in Baltimore: Stop arresting black people.

January 31, 2014 — Leave a comment

New: How to cut crime in Baltimore: Stop arresting black people.

They call it mass incarceration.

Arrests in Baltimore are down by 50 percent.

That’s not turning out so well, says the governor.

Rawlings-Blake says city won’t return to days of ‘mass arrests’ under O’Malley – baltimoresun.com

An excerpt:

Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake released a statement this afternoon, saying her police department would not return to the days of “mass arrests” under Gov. Martin O’Malley’s tenure as mayor.

“Returning to the days of mass arrests for any and every minor offense might be a good talking point but it has been proven to be a far less effective strategy for actually reducing crime,” Rawlings-Blake said in a statement.

Recently, the governor has argued for increased arrests in Baltimore as a way to combat violent crime. O’Malley, who advocated zero-tolerance policing policies while mayor, says he is concerned that Baltimore has stalled in its crime-fighting efforts, emphasizing that arrests are only half of what they were during his time as mayor.

 

Read more: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/politics/blog/bal-rawlingsblake-says-city-wont-return-to-days-of-mass-arrests-under-omalley-20130920,0,169982.story#ixzz2s0aXoHbi

 

 

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Colin Flaherty is the author of #1 Amazon Best Selling Book: White Girl Bleed a Lot: The return of racial violence and how the media ignore it. He is an award winning journalist whose work has been published in over 1000 news sites around the world, including the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and others. He is a frequent guest in local and national media talking about racial violence. Thomas Sowell said ”Reading Colin Flaherty’s book made painfully clear to me that the magnitude of this problem is greater than I had discovered from my own research. He documents both the race riots and the media and political evasions in dozens of cities.” – National Review.