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.