Police, Journalists Deceive Public About Crime in Baltimore, Elsewhere

Making them disappear.

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Hermann was explaining life in the big city to a New Jersey yokel who wanted to know what happened to the large group of black people that was rampaging through downtown Baltimore, attacking people, destroying property, and creating mayhem. All beneath her hotel balcony window in the upscale Inner Harbor.
That really does not narrow it down much, because what seemed “scary” to her, Hermann said, was “normal and routine” to grizzled observers of the gritty Baltimore crime beat. Police “made no arrests, saw no crime, had no reason to make an announcement. There’s not even a report -- it’s just something that happens,” he said.
Last summer there was so much crime, so much video, so many people wondering why it was happening so often, that Governor O’Malley suggested that the new mayor might want to copy what he did to fight crime when he was mayor: Put more boots on the ground.
Not on my watch, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake told the Baltimore Sun:
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They may have stopped arresting people, but crime just keeps on chugging along. Locals know the truth: Baltimore is a dangerous place for racial violence and the people who run the town -- and their mouthpieces at the local paper -- could not care less.
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That same holiday weekend, 200 black people were fighting, destroying property and creating havoc downtown. Near the Inner Harbor, again. This time they arrested two people. When some readers observed that crime and violence in Baltimore was a black thing, others lashed out, demanding they stop “demonizing black people.”
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“Growing up in Baltimore city can be hellish for white people,” said one of many correspondents. “Anyone who isn’t black is a target.”
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So in Baltimore, police will not arrest black criminals. Juries will not convict them. And all over the country, more and more district attorneys are talking about an epidemic of witness tampering that also makes convictions problematic.
Toss in stitches for snitches, and that is the fourth reason why the black crime rate is artificially low.
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Chicago Magazine did a two-part story on how the police department deflates crime numbers.
So much so that the web site DNA Info reported that a Chicago police captain recently told a community group that he would not even talk about crime statistics: “You'll notice I didn't bring up stats," said Police Cmdr. Elias Voulgaris. "No one believes the stats.”
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When you ask, white people and black people report using cocaine in about the same amount. But when you test, black people are six times more likely to use cocaine. And lie about it.

http://americanthinker.com/2014/09/black_crime_in_baltimore_high__but_should_be_higher.html

September 16, 2014
Black Crime in Baltimore High -- but Should be Higher
By Colin Flaherty