Baltimore has turned apocalyptic. MoCo’s future?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We need to find out where these cars are going. Somehow there’s a market for them that has increased. There needs to be a task force finding out if they are being shipped abroad and who is profiting from this crime.

Oh great idea. A “task force.” That’ll get them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The same is happening in many lower income inner city zones.

Go to the real estate forum and check out the thread about the woman who went to Philadelphia for the Taylor Swift concert and talked about how unsafe the one portion of Center City made her feel adn she had to abandon her airBnB because it was unsafe and there was no hotel in the area to check into because of the concert. There are many cities around the country that have had increases in crime and many neighborhoods are less safe. Baltimore may be one of the worst cases, but it is not unique by any stretch of the imagination.

I’ve been to Philly- City Center, downtown and tourist areas and never felt unsafe. Recently took Amtrak to NYC and train goes right through some pretty rough looking neighborhoods. The level of decay, despair and poverty is evident. It’s sad that a country as rich as the U.S. has such a divide in opportunity and the haves and have nots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We need to find out where these cars are going. Somehow there’s a market for them that has increased. There needs to be a task force finding out if they are being shipped abroad and who is profiting from this crime.

Many are shipped to South America. Baltimore has a port.

Lol. No, these are teens joy-riding and then abandoning the cars for the most part.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You could always move to the five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Maybe the folks that are elected there are more to your liking.

Whataboutism does not solve issues in Baltimore unless you are a poverty profiteer and make money on the suffering others.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You could always move to the five states with the highest age-adjusted death rates: Alabama, Kentucky, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and West Virginia. Maybe the folks that are elected there are more to your liking.

What does highest age adjusted death rates mean

^^^ only a trumper is too stupid to understand that lolz ^^^

Or the average poster on DCUM — like those who cannot express themselves without teenage adjusted language.

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Anonymous wrote:This is part of the Kia/Hyundai theft epidemic that’s happening all over the country. It is not specific to Baltimore.

This is becoming the new iT wAs wOrSe iN tHe 90s.

It was worse in the 80’s and 90’s.

Crime is still historically low.

The uptick is due to a pandemic, fentanyl and poverty. Those are not caused by “progressive “ policy.

It like the crack epidemic but it fentanyl , thanks China.

Yes.

So does this mean all you right-wingers on here are ready to discuss gun-control? All this worry about murder and auto-thefts and car-jackings and crime and no discussion of how it's time to get rid of all the guns?

Does this mean you are ready to discuss policies to reduce poverty?

If not, you are not really interested in addressing this topic and just a pot-stirring troll.

We’ve dumped billions into Baltimore over decades. Clinton spent tons of money on Empowerment Zones. Hogan committed to billions more in the city to combat blight, poverty, and for improving schools. Even before all of that Baltimore got tons of money for housing and other anti-poverty programs, yet nothing ever improves. Maybe city leadership under democrats sucks and has so for the last 80 years. How many times do you have to bang your head against the wall to admit the problem isn’t more money, but maybe the incompetent and corrupt clown shows you elect.


I think it was only a little while ago when it was revealed that the comptroller of the city, the #3 highest ranking official btw who makes a big 6 figure salary btw, hadn’t audited a whole bunch of city departments since like the 80s! How does the city pay someone like that big salaries and re-elect them over and over when they aren’t doing their basic job? And you wonder where money goes in Baltimore despite all of the spending when you have virtually no oversight on where the money goes for decades. Same city where city sanitation workers took millions in kickbacks to allow out of city people to dump trash in the landfills and where something absurd like 60-70% of all cops and firefighters have filed for disability and get payments for ‘injuries’ they supposedly got on the job.

It’s really tiresome listening to Baltimore people claim all the time they need more money to combat poverty and invest in opportunities for people when we’ve already done that to the tune of billions of dollars over decades with zero results. Look at your leadership for starters. You give democrats carte blanche to run the city. How’s that worked out for you for the last 8 decades?

Right but cops and firefighters live in HoCo, Moco and Frederick. The grants always get redirected to the suburbs

[Anonymous]

I worked in Baltimore city for 10 years. It had a chance at one point to get out of the malaise. Under Armour was hot, Harbor East was developed out to Canton, new restaurants/food halls were popping up and there was a small, entrepreneurial community doing lots of good for locals.

All that momentum is gone now...I wouldn't drive anywhere near where I worked. The business, political and community leadership will never be on the same page. Feel bad for all those who are stuck there w little hope.

[Anonymous]

Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

you realize that your defund thr police anti police rhetoric made police avoid situations like this ?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

Evidently, the police are biased when they do show up, and also when they don't show up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

I'm ok with blaming the Baltimore PD for their inadequate actions before and inadequate response after the shooting. This is basic serve-and-protect stuff. It also demonstrates, yet again, how poor/non-white communities are simultaneously underpoliced and overpoliced.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

Evidently, the police are biased when they do show up, and also when they don't show up.

Most people understand that different police responses are appropriate depending on different circumstances. If you don't show up when there's a problem, that's a problem. If you do show up to create problems when there isn't a problem, that's also a problem.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

Soooo...the police should come and handle the "disorderly armed people?" What if someone gets shot or arrested? Are we in agreement that it's not enough to just have a talk with the armed folks congregating in your neighborhood?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Holy crap they are trying to blame the baltimore pd for the Brooklyn mass shooting https://wtop.com/baltimore/2023/08/baltimore-police-showed-indifference-leading-up-to-july-mass-shooting-report-says/

So if there’s a huge crowd of disorderly, armed people congregating in your neighborhood and you call the cops a bunch, and then there’s a mass shooting when the cops never show up…you’re fine with that?

Evidently, the police are biased when they do show up, and also when they don't show up.

Most people understand that different police responses are appropriate depending on different circumstances. If you don't show up when there's a problem, that's a problem. If you do show up to create problems when there isn't a problem, that's also a problem.

And those determinations should be made in an eye blink? The same few seconds that someone could draw out a knife or gun or machete?