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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]On the other hand, the guy who actually goes to his post and investigates who's burglarizing the homes, at the end of the month maybe he’s made one arrest. It may be the right arrest and one that makes his post safer, but he's going to court one day and he's out in two hours. So you fail to reward the cop who actually does police work. But worse, it’s time to make new sergeants or lieutenants, and so you look at the computer and say: Who's doing the most work? And they say, man, this guy had 80 arrests last month, and this other guy’s only got one. Who do you think gets made sergeant? And then who trains the next generation of cops in how not to do police work? I’ve just described for you the culture of the Baltimore police department amid the deluge of the drug war, where actual investigation goes unrewarded and where rounding up bodies for street dealing, drug possession, loitering such – the easiest and most self-evident arrests a cop can make – is nonetheless the path to enlightenment and promotion and some additional pay. That’s what the drug war built, and that’s what Martin O’Malley affirmed when he sent so much of inner city Baltimore into the police wagons on a regular basis.[/quote]

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish
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MPD promotes (through the rank of Captain) based on a written and oral test only.  Candidates are rank ordered based on their scores and then promotions are done in batches.  Promotions have nothing to do with how many arrests an officer makes, how effective an officer/detective they are, or the strength of their management skills.  [/quote]

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