POLICE BRUTALITY CASES: WALTER SCOTT MURDER & MORE

[HairOfTheDog]

The murder increase in Baltimore was to be expected. While I very much dislike the dirty cops, it's not surprising at all to me if cops around the country become more arrest hesitant (so to speak). A sad consequence of all the recent public scrutiny/cynicism regarding police in general.

It's been terrible in Baltimore since the six officers were arrested.

The spike in murders continues and I think part of that is not only officers being afraid to do their jobs and then getting in trouble for it, but also their way of protesting through inaction. If so, it seems to be working.

The Baltimore PD Union issued a scathing report of how police officers were unsupported, directed not to intervene with rioters, were denied appropriate riot gear, etc...after the Freddy Gray death.

I wanna see brutal law-breaking cops put away, but I do think other BPD patrol officers really got screwed by top leadership.


So, today, shortly after the Union report was released, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake fired BPD Commissioner Anthony Batts (pic above). He needed to go; he couldn't get his officers back in the game and that's his failure.

To many, Mayor Blake is tossing Batts under the bus and she needs to go too. For now, she's staying put and she's assigned Assistant Commissioner Kevin Davis to fill Batts' shoes.


^ Interim Commissioner Kevin Davis and Mayor SR-Blake

Jimbone, and Maggot, and Gunnar...you may have been right upthread. It might turn out that the mayor's political career will go down in flames and the leadership policies have just been too liberal. Blake better pull out all the stops and turn things around quickly.

Anyway, hoping today's change will have a positive impact on the BPD officers and that the murder rate begins to decline again. Wishing good luck to Kevin Davis, he's got a tough job.


Ref: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/baltimore-po...-replaced/