https://www.yahoo.com/news/baltimore-residents-fearful-amid-homicide-spike-083758282.html
Much more at link.
Strange predicament. In would seem the public has lost what little faith they had in the pd, and in turn the police have felt betrayed and started to care less, or feel to endangered to help out.
What is the solution? Clean swipe of the whole department? Would that even matter?
Before it was over-policing. Now there's no police," said Donnail "Dreads" Lee, 34, who lives in the Gilmor Homes, the public housing complex where Gray, 25, was chased down. "People feel as though they can do things and get away with it. I see people walking with guns almost every single day, because they know the police aren't pulling them up like they used to."
Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said his officers "are not holding back," despite encountering dangerous hostility in the Western District.
"Our officers tell me that when officers pull up, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them at any time," Batts said.
Much more at link.
Strange predicament. In would seem the public has lost what little faith they had in the pd, and in turn the police have felt betrayed and started to care less, or feel to endangered to help out.
What is the solution? Clean swipe of the whole department? Would that even matter?