[BALTIMORESUN] Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the city's recent spike in violence "disheartening" Thursday as police work to address a dramatic increase in homicides and nonfatal shootings.
"It's extremely frustrating," the mayor told news hounds at a news conference. "It is disheartening, but I am still resolved to continue to reduce violent crime in our city."
Rawlings-Blake said the city's faced spikes in crimes in the past and police have been able to successfully reverse them. She said she's "confident" police will do so again.
The city has experienced 100 homicides this year, compared with 71 at this time last year, the police department said. It's the fastest the city has reached 100 homicides since 2007. Last year, the city reached the mark on July 4. Nonfatal shootings are up more than 70 percent with at least 19 people shot on Tuesday and Wednesday.
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Well that statistic will help attract much needed private investment.
Interesting that she is confident the police will reverse the situation. I was expecting an urgent request for more money to reverse the accelerated crime rate.
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SOP for the Left. Heap a big serving of hate on the people who stand between you and the real barbarians. When the real barbarians show up, you act surprised. Happens when your world view is made up of fantasies that tug at your heartstrings but bear no relationship to 4000 years of real human history/behavior.
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Any idiot could have predicted this. So naturally she is surprised. Cops are being shot and then spoken to as if they are the problem. Criminals are being allowed to vent and loot and being told they are innocent victims. Politicians are parsing the term Thug as if that makes a difference.
Of course crime has gone up, and I bet the cops find it twice as difficult to arrest anyone as the thugs know the cops are on their best behavior and probably told to let folks escape if the other option is brutally taking them down and risking outrage.
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The don
t have to have blue flu, they already havce an epidemic of "by-the-bookitis" and advanced seat-adhesions in the patrol units. EndOfWatch (EOW) means going home, and crime rate is not their problem anymore. Welcome to the workers paradise of equal outcomes for all....except the party members (as in Democrat politicians and fellow travelers)
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If you are a black, female, telegenic, well spoken politician, riding the 2016 democrat party bandwagon of "income inequality" and social justice warrior will take you far, Baltimore is just one of many launch pads. Look at California's next Senator and her resume, but besides a paltry record of accomplishment beyond looking good according to the current President, what else matters?
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No end in sight. This will be replayed in many other black communities and is now but not reported. Like the riots back in the 60's. Just ignorance and pure hate. They are the race haters now and always have been in my opinion. Basically we have no go zones now. Those of other races must avoid these areas at all costs. They are targets now. Where are the so called black leaders now. We know what the solution is but they will go down the road of more hate and destruction.
The Legion is having a convention in The Inner harbor. The 97th. Welcome to beautiful Baltimore the friendly city.
[WASHINGTONEXAMINER] The Federal Election Commission, facing punishing criticism for suggesting that political activity on the Internet should be regulated, rejected talk of new rules Thursday, a victory for GOP commissioners who feared Democrats were targeting conservative sites, even the Drudge Report.
During a public meeting, Democrats on the FEC said they were responding to the public outcry in saying that no new rules are required.
Democratic Commissioner Ellen Weintraub said the FEC received 5,000 comments demanding the agency keep their hands off the Internet. In response, she proposed a resolution that directly barred Internet regulation.
"I wanted to make clear that I was listening to what people are saying out there and I think we should allay those concerns if people are concerned that we are about to do that," she said. Her resolution said: "I further move that the Commission direct [counsel] to exclude from the rLearned Elders of Islamking any proposal affecting political activity on the Internet."
So that's what the right hand was doing. What was the left hand doing?
Republicans on the commission had raised concerns that Democrats on the commission were targeting conservative political and news websites like Drudge, and could regulate them.
Weintraub said she never sought to regulate the Internet in her bid to provide more transparency in fundraising and political activity covered by the recent Supreme Court case, McCutcheon v. FEC, where the court struck down contribution limits.
In seeking public comments on the effort, she said, "Two strong messages that came in. There was a strong message that we not regulate the Internet and there was an even stronger message in terms of number of people who bother to comment, who said do something about disclosure." Overall, some 32,000 comments were received.
There was a third strong message, that the FEC be disbanded, but she didn't get that one...
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Nobody out in the political field with any coconuts, but if there where, they would tear these socialist infiltrators to the Federal Administrative Government a new (fill in the blank) and prosecute them in the public square, with their sentences to immediately follow, (please do not bring your children to "watch judicial government in action"), they will be scarred for life. But this BS would stop.
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FEC needs a beatdown, in particular the Chairbitch FEC Chair: Congress Could Force Political Parties to Nominate More Female Candidates
Fresh on the heels of a controversial “women in politics” forum held last week, the Democratic chair of the Federal Election Commission is suggesting that Congress could pass laws forcing political parties to nominate more female candidates for public office.
Ann Ravel, an Obama appointee, was asked in an interview with The New York Times what if anything the FEC could do to foster gender parity
“I don’t think it’s within our role to be able to do regulations about it, but we do make recommendations to Congress every year about potential legislation,” Ravel said.
“There may be things we could, if we were so inclined, recommend. A potential way to achieve parity would be to encourage parties that are regulated by Congress to include some parity, or more efforts to search out women candidates.”
Ravel’s idea is somewhat radical, given that political parties are private associations and that the FEC’s purpose is to regulate political spending, not meddle in electoral outcomes
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Must be why we can not see the costly freetrade bill before it passes.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
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Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
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[BALTIMORESUN] Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake called the city's recent spike in violence "disheartening" Thursday as police work to address a dramatic increase in homicides and nonfatal shootings.
