Baltimore had 43 Homicides in May; Worst in 40 Years

[I-10east]

BALTIMORE — Three more fatal shootings in this troubled city Sunday bring May's homicide count to 43, making it the most violent month in nearly 40 years.

Police say two men were fatally shot in the head about 1 a.m. ET. About 11 a.m., a man was fatally shot in the back.

With 43 homicides, May is deadlier than August 1990 when 42 people were killed, according to USA TODAY data.

There have been 116 homicides in Baltimore in 2015. By this time last year, homicides hadn't hit triple digits. As homicides rose in May, the number of arrests plummeted. Some attribute the drop to increased scrutiny of police following the April death of Freddie Gray from injuries received in police custody.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/05/31/baltimore-homicides-worst-in-40-years/28284839/

[I-10east]

No outrage here...It's a shame that Mayor Brown (he's not perfect, but damn) soon will not have a job, but Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Bmore still has hers. I think that she did an AWFUL job with this whole situation. I'm not gonna even gonna talk about all of her blunderous follies. People on the left will give her a pass because she's a woman and a minority.

[RattlerGator]

We in the black community are consistently allowing ourselves to be used for the political purposes of others. It's maddening to me, absolutely maddening. When the anarchists descended on Baltimore to take advantage of this "opportunity," you saw Madam Mayor react with horror -- which was proper, and she called them what they were, thugs (even though she had unwittingly encouraged them by giving the protest folk FAR TOO MUCH dap). Then the progressive-which-is-actually-regressive left pounced on her for speaking truthfully, and she immediately apologized.

"Our" perhaps legitimate protests regarding police brutality then gets taken over by those who want destruction for the sake of destruction -- black people be damned.

It's sad, really sad. Then we have these police officers, half of them black I believe, villainized for a death-incident arising from arresting a guy picked up previously 20 or 30 times for being something of a poison predator in our community. They may very well have acted criminally, they may have not. But they have unquestionably been set up for a lynching, and the police force now sees that they, too, can be just as easily set up to take a quick fall.

Now we have yet another black community in yet another urban core where private investment will be very slow to return and stone-cold nihilistic criminals have been given license to not simply act a fool, but maim and kill. I've heard some relatives in Jacksonville say with respect to the property destruction in Baltimore, "it's only insurance." No, it isn't. That's the kind of ignorance that has real consequences. Insurance will do nothing for that neighborhood and the bit it does for the property owners affected will be applied elsewhere, by and large.

That said, the bigger immediate problem in Baltimore may be that State's Attorney who is prosecuting the police officers. She is quite inexperienced and shows no sign of being ready for this, to me, and too many signs of being led by the mob.

Meanwhile, here comes Baltimore's Martin O'Malley for President, and he's certainly a fresher face than the Klinton Kleptocratic Klan. For whatever that's worth.

Heaven help us.

[finehoe]

No outrage here...It's a shame that Mayor Brown (he's not perfect, but damn) soon will not have a job, but Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Bmore still has hers. I think that she did an AWFUL job with this whole situation. I'm not gonna even gonna talk about all of her blunderous follies. People on the left will give her a pass because she's a woman and a minority.

Seeing as how there has been no election between the disturbances and now, you are perhaps premature in your judgement.

[simms3]

Not sure what's wrong with his post, or what my post #10 was, but RattlerGator did hit perhaps the most important nail right on the head and that is that there will certainly not be any private investment in that community in a really really long time.  Oakland, CA deals with the same issue.  Frequent violent protests and community issues chase out $$$.  $$$ is what brings in amenities and new living options for communities.  Amenities and decent living options are what keep families and good people around.  Without good people, you're left with hopeless and/or bad people.  Then you get a death spiral that's hard to get out of.  In a nutshell, Baltimore just shot itself in the face.  And it is pretty apparent that politicians swooped in from all sides to use the issue to prop up their agenda.  They are vultures.

Now about those posts - how many of the top 10 are yours?  I would be curious to know.  You're too quick to find fault with literally every other poster (at some point in history) on this site; meanwhile, everyone has called you out at some point(ssss) and you just don't even realize you can be even more obnoxious than those you put down.  It's posts like yours above that have me in constant disbelief that you are a moderator to this professional, nationally recognized website, or even that you are a middle-aged adult.

[tufsu1]

No outrage here...It's a shame that Mayor Brown (he's not perfect, but damn) soon will not have a job, but Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, the mayor of Bmore still has hers. I think that she did an AWFUL job with this whole situation. I'm not gonna even gonna talk about all of her blunderous follies. People on the left will give her a pass because she's a woman and a minority.

The police made a conscious decision in May to lay back....and this is the result. 

I'm not here to provide darts or laurels to Baltimore's elected officials.  The residents of Baltimore elected them.

[fsquid]

I thought the mayor told them to give them space to destroy?

[Non-RedNeck Westsider]

back on.  Now NonRedneck Westsider no longer appears.

I give it a week...