Baltimore PD, no racial bias.... Not really

[Moonbeam]

From the parts of the report I've read, it's clear the BPD and the States Attorney's office need to suffer mass firings.

Systemic criminality, corruption & cover ups.
Fire them all and give their pensions to charity.

As I see it, this thread is about racial bias in a police department and the psychological need for denial of that fact by brain defective conservatives who have unconscious and deep seated needs to deny it based on a group shared and unfortunately delusional indoctrination, a shared deep state of conditioning.

Sadly, in my opinion, what you brought to the table is a similar authoritarian liberal opposite but similar form of stereotyping insanity that would seek to punish all cops for the mental illness of an unknown number of them.

Can't we allow the city government, the DOJ, the police department, and the community to address the issue in a way that does not punish the innocent or deny the guilt of the guilty?

You can't fix injustice my causing more of it. You can't fix injustice by denying it where it exists. In order to do both things will require not just self confrontation but compassion, as I see it.

 

[Zaap]

No one really denies the possibility. Personally I just don't see the need to pick exaggerated, ridiculous, don't even make real world sense examples, such as what I took issue with.

And why would any of it be on conservatives?

In your delusions maybe Baltimore is run in anyway by conservatives, but it isn't. Liberals never own up to what their own asskissing of big government and overbearing authority actually gets them.

I've asked the question before, why anyone thinks that sucking up to lawMAKERS and encouraging overpowerful, overbearing government from the lawmaking side, would somehow lead to anything less on the law ENFORCEMENT side?

It's almost like whining against smaller, more efficient, non-bloated, operate-within-its-means, hands-off unless there's an actual constitution-granted government function, is a stupid idea or something.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

So cops routinely stopping blacks for no reason, beating them up, calling them ni%-%-s and making monkey noises is due to... "left-wing gun control."

But hey, what can you do, they are prone to criminality.

Wow. Uncle work on the BPD?

I don't see anything in the OP's article about n-words or monkey noises. What are you referring to that is apparently a systematic issue in the BPD?

I don't know, man. It looks pretty bad.

If you recall, this practice was mirrored in the Ferguson PD - they called it a "ped check."

Then you have to consider how useful and appropriate the stops are:

Unfortunately, the bias displayed was also present in Ferguson.

fwiw I do agree that there is a disparity in sentencing that may have strong racial bias (although the inherent socioeconomic factors of poor people having poor legal representation is a complicating factor there). Focusing on two black districts when it comes to stops doesn't say as much imo unless it turns out that these are actually more affluent/lower crime black districts (the article doesn't appear to name the specific districts). Officers often have quotas to meet, so there's an automatic incentive to patrol areas where there's more crime just as fishers go where the fish are. Additionally, the "zero tolerance" policies are exactly what I'm talking about also regarding NYC, another city well known for its random frisks and searches. Rather than fix the causes of poverty and crime (the war on drugs for one), police budgets explode and they get to play police state to try and bring crime down by brute force.

 

[ivwshane]

Here is a little better link.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/09/us/baltimore-justice-department-report/

 

[Moonbeam]

No one really denies the possibility. Personally I just don't see the need to pick exaggerated, ridiculous, don't even make real world sense examples, such as what I took issue with.

And why would any of it be on conservatives?

In your delusions maybe Baltimore is run in anyway by conservatives, but it isn't. Liberals never own up to what their own asskissing of big government and overbearing authority actually gets them.

I've asked the question before, why anyone thinks that sucking up to lawMAKERS and encouraging overpowerful, overbearing government from the lawmaking side, would somehow lead to anything less on the law ENFORCEMENT side?

It's almost like whining against smaller, more efficient, non-bloated, operate-within-its-means, hands-off unless there's an actual constitution-granted government function, is a stupid idea or something.

I think you took issue with little of relevance and used that to dive into your usual favorite delusion conditioning. You are in my option blinded by an anger you don't own but blame others for. Your need to feel and express that outrage makes you ree an excuse to project it everywhere. Your blindness allows you to go to a very emotionally comfortable place, a place that honest self awareness would not allow. You can never get free that way. I am sorry it makes you mad that I tell you, but not many will because so few care. I don't have much to offer, maybe nothing at all.

 

[MixMasterTang]

For those that haven't watched The Wire, I highly suggest it. It got canceled during their 5th season (give or take) because the Mayor at the time thought it shed a bad light on Baltimore and wouldn't allow them to film there anymore. A few months after that, that same Mayor got indicted for corruption. While a fictional drama many people from Baltimore says it was a great representation.