Why don't we deal with just plain old unembellished facts?
70% of all murders occur in 5% of all the counties in the entire country.
More than 50% of all counties have a murder rate of near zero
We know what to do to lower our murder rate but we don't care to do it because those 70% of murders are concentrated in urban shit holes and are mostly young urban minorities killing other young urban minorities
Get a handle on the 5% of counties and reduce the murder rate by up to 70%
but you don't really want to do that do you?
How do you propose we do that and what examples can you point to from conservative run cities?
I don't give a **** about partisan whining. If you want to keep painting the world red and blue with your broad brush then you don't want to do anything about what is actually driving the murder rate in this country
Take the colors away from the discussion then. I’m fine with that. Which large city would you like to use as an example for us to use to reduce the violence. We can look at the way they are managed and then see if we can apply those laws and methods to the problem cities. Make sense?
We've been trying to reduce the crime in Baltimore for years.
Drug and gang related.
Now we have our guests from south of the border and crime has gotten worse.
We've been through more Police Commissioners, that I stopped counting since 2000.
Firing Police Commissioner is not going to fix it.
The Police are totally ineffective.
When O'Malley was Mayor, the Criminals actually ran the jails in the City.
Violent criminals are getting early release.
Our Politicians can't fix it.
343 Homicides last year.
We are at 30 and Summer has yet to arrive.
Lets start there.