BALTIMORE, MD – As murders in Baltimore Push Towards the magic number 300 for the eighth year in a row, the NAACP has asked Governor Larry Hogan to send the National Guard to help quell the violence.
This comes as the city, which has been led by Democrats for over five decades, hit 233 murders over the weekend. This number is on pace to meet or surpass 300 homicides for the eighth year in a row. At the same time last year, there were 218 murders recorded, which means there has been an increase of 6.8% so far.
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The rise in violent crime isn’t just murders, as there has also been a 9.5% increase in shootings that didn’t result in deaths. Last year at this time, there were 437, compared to this year’s 483.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott has served in that position since 2020. He has spent his time blaming gun companies for the increased violence, including filing a lawsuit against “ghost gun” manufacturer Polymer 80 for what he says is a “public health crisis.”
In April 2022, he introduced a “Community Violence Intervention ecosystem” to fight the gun violence, which included “violence intervention programming and victim services, intensive life coaching, hospital-based response, and other wraparound supports.” The program placed a heavy importance on victim services, which does nothing to prevent them from becoming victims in the first place.
He also said part of his plan included “Organizations that will partner with the city on coordinated neighborhood stabilization response before or after traumatic events occur in a neighborhood, such as major law-enforcement takedowns which leave power vacuums in communities and police-involved shootings.”
Those who have common sense, however, point more to the pro-criminal Marilyn Mosby, the state attorney assigned to Baltimore, as a major contributor to the problem. Although she’s only been in office since 2015, she campaigned on reducing sentences for criminals, even violent ones. She also had a “no prosecution policy” for drug possession and prostitution.
With the huge hike in crime, Mosby was voted out earlier this year. In May of this year, the Randallstown’s chapter of the NAACP asked Governor Larry Hogan to declare a state of emergency and send the National Guard in to assist with the growing violence.
Also in May, Governor Hogan announced that $45 million would be allocated for “Major Violent Crime Initiatives, Expanded State Law Enforcement Initiatives and Coordination.”
Hogan said, “I’ve been focused on getting the leadership in Baltimore to take it more seriously. I hope they develop a real crime plan and start arresting more, prosecuting more and putting them in jail.”
Mosby’s failed policies are just the latest example of prosecutors being voted out of office as people wake up to the reality that criminals do actually need to be punished for their crime, and “hug-a-thug,” while a nice thought, does not actually work and ends up putting more innocent citizens in danger. She has blamed being voted out on her finances being federally investigated.
This piece was written by Leah Anaya on August 24, 2022. It originally appeared on RedVoiceMedia.com and is used with permission.
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Isn’t baltimore one of those commie blue cities that support defund the police?
I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but Baltimore is lost. Throw or should I say waste all the money in the world and this city will NEVER recover. People would be better off to just burn it to the ground and start over.
You all made your beds. Now try and not get killed when you sleep in it.
They are reaping the problem because of their stance on being soft on crime!
The liberal African-American mayors have made their city’s beds. Let them sleep in it!
The NAACP should watch the videos of the people committing crimes and riots.
This is like saying we won’t focus on preventive medicine, but rather hospitalizing those who are now ill. What ails Baltimore ails many large urban centers, to wit: they are breeding rabid jackals. Trying to get them at 16 is generally a hopeless cause because they are beyond socialization.
Some of you may remember a three-year-old black kid on the sidewalk taunting and sassing AFT officers who had a murder warrant. His brother, a year and a half younger and dressed only in a diaper was egging his brother on. What chance do those kids have of not dying by 21 in gang related violence? Very little. What chance of avoiding prison, virtually none unless George Soros DA’s continue to win elections.
These kids have to be removed from the home early and recalibrated in a better setting. Otherwise, they are doomed. But, w2hat politician would ever say and do that?
I all about the 2nd amendment let crime get so bad that people ask government to confiscate all guns. But Not where 99% of the crime is in the N’s end of town. Hopefully they will eliminate each other faster than they breed on the government dime.
The responsible people of Baltimore should kidnap George Soros and force him to patrol the streets. Give him a gun, some body armor and tell him to clean it up or he’ll never be allowed to leave. I’ll bet an old rich dude like that wouldn’t last more than a few minutes in his model city scape. Just give him an opportunity to see the Hell on Earth he is creating with his unconscionable practices. I don’t see why we don’t rescind his American citizenship since he hates America and other freedom loving countries, so much.