Baltimore question

Is Baltimore a dangerous and filthy place?

  • Yes

    Votes: 108 96.4%

  • No

    Votes: 4 3.6%
  • Total voters
    112
#601
#601
I posted this in another thread:

Does anyone remember the movie Bonfire of the Vanities from around 1990? A young thug trying to rob a couple that made a wrong turn gets accidentally run over. The black community is in an uproar. They demand justice. Peter Fallow, a reporter, is interviewing one of his HS teachers.

Ed Rifkin: Mr. Fallow, I got 65 students in every class.

Peter Fallow: Tests, homework, any written work he might have turn now?

Ed Rifkin: S**t, there hasn't been any written work at Ruppert High since 15, maybe 20 years.

Peter Fallow: Really? And how the hell you keep track of these kids? I mean, Jesus Christ, there must be some record of how this boy measures up to the other students at class.

Ed Rifkin: You're thinking about honor students and grades.

Peter Fallow: Attendance records. Grades. Yeah.

Ed Rifkin: High achievements. We don't make those kind of comparisons. We just try to keep them off the streets. At Ruppert High, an honor student is somebody who comes to class and doesn't piss on the teacher.

Peter Fallow: Well, by that standard then, would you say Henry Lamb was an honor student?

Ed Rifkin: Well, uh, he never pissed on me.

The next day's headline read something like, "Honor Student in Coma. Cops Sit on Hit & Run."

Who knew we would actually now live where that type of journalism is the norm?
 
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#613
Ambushed Baltimore cop on life support described as devoted mom: 'Heart of an officer'

Baltimore police Officer Keonna Holley was shot in an 'ambush-style' attack

An ambushed Baltimore police officer on life support is described as a dedicated mother, daughter and sister, as fundraising efforts continue following the overnight shooting attack.


Officer Keonna Holley, a member of the force for two years, was shot and wounded at 1:35 a.m. Thursday morning in the 4400 block of Pennington Ave.

Baltimore police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the officer was shot at her designated post while sat in her vehicle working an overnight shift in the high-crime area of Curtis Bay.

Ambushed Baltimore cop on life support described as devoted mom: 'Heart of an officer'
 
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BreatheUT said:
Ambushed Baltimore cop on life support described as devoted mom: 'Heart of an officer'

Baltimore police Officer Keonna Holley was shot in an 'ambush-style' attack

An ambushed Baltimore police officer on life support is described as a dedicated mother, daughter and sister, as fundraising efforts continue following the overnight shooting attack.


Officer Keonna Holley, a member of the force for two years, was shot and wounded at 1:35 a.m. Thursday morning in the 4400 block of Pennington Ave.

Baltimore police Commissioner Michael Harrison said the officer was shot at her designated post while sat in her vehicle working an overnight shift in the high-crime area of Curtis Bay.

Ambushed Baltimore cop on life support described as devoted mom: 'Heart of an officer'
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Stating the obvious, but the black community is almost hopeless at this point. Trillions and trillions and not much to show for it. Something drastic needs to change.
 
#615
#615
Orangeburst said:
Stating the obvious, but the black community is almost hopeless at this point. Trillions and trillions and not much to show for it. Something drastic needs to change.
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I don't agree with this statement, but I do think there are some deep rooted issues culturally that contributes to this behavior. There are many reasons why we continue to see this type of ruthlessness at higher rates. There are a lot of inflection points that could lower this behavior. If it was deeply concerned to a greater % of this country then real measures would be taken to minimize it. Both sides need this to exist but more so progressive elites. Criminals do what criminals do.
 
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#616
BreatheUT said:
I don't agree with this statement, but I do think there are some deep rooted issues culturally that contributes to this behavior. There are many reasons why we continue to see this type of ruthlessness at higher rates. There are a lot of inflection points that could lower this behavior. If it was deeply concerned to a greater % of this country then real measures would be taken to minimize it. Both sides need this to exist but more so progressive elites. Criminals do what criminals do.
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Point being it is worse now than ever. More crime, more killers,, more despair.
 
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Orangeburst said:
Point being it is worse now than ever. More crime, more killers,, more despair.
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It's worse because the democrats have set it up that way and the culture has in general fallen victim to the propaganda. I do think more are waking up to what the democrats are doing but the low end of the totem poll and the for-profit race hustlers are taking advantage of it. Criminals of any race are always for weaker law enforcement. The summer of 2020 created a brand new era for criminals. They saw politicians and the media championing this behavior, and law enforcement having their hands tied. They think they have a mandate, wink and a nood from the dumbest in society (dummies with degrees funded by leftists).
 
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EXCLUSIVE: 'You can't go anywhere without being fearful.' Families of gun violence victims in Baltimore - dubbed 'a bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic' by Tucker Carlson - blast Democrat leaders for failing to take action after deadliest January in 50 years

  • Baltimore, Maryland, suffered its deadliest January in almost 50 years, with 36 homicides - most of which were shooting deaths in robberies and brazen attacks
It's a loss that no mother should have to endure – but Rosheda Murray has suffered it several times over.

Rosheda's 18-year-old son Rodrick Burden was gunned down in a Baltimore street in March 2012 as he headed to the store to buy medication for a toothache.

Almost a decade later the bullet-riddled body of his twin brother Romar Burden, 26, was found stripped of belongings and dumped in a gutter. To this day their killers have never been caught.

Baltimore residents speak out against city's high murder rates after Tucker Carlson's comments | Daily Mail Online
 
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Franklin Pierce said:
EXCLUSIVE: 'You can't go anywhere without being fearful.' Families of gun violence victims in Baltimore - dubbed 'a bit of Haiti in the mid-Atlantic' by Tucker Carlson - blast Democrat leaders for failing to take action after deadliest January in 50 years

  • Baltimore, Maryland, suffered its deadliest January in almost 50 years, with 36 homicides - most of which were shooting deaths in robberies and brazen attacks
It's a loss that no mother should have to endure – but Rosheda Murray has suffered it several times over.

Rosheda's 18-year-old son Rodrick Burden was gunned down in a Baltimore street in March 2012 as he headed to the store to buy medication for a toothache.

Almost a decade later the bullet-riddled body of his twin brother Romar Burden, 26, was found stripped of belongings and dumped in a gutter. To this day their killers have never been caught.

Baltimore residents speak out against city's high murder rates after Tucker Carlson's comments | Daily Mail Online
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Why would he call it that?

Seriously, can you not see the equivalence he is making?
 
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#622
DC_Vol said:
I was thinking lawlessness and high crime rate?
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You, and he, hiding behind that when you know damn well the equivalency you, and he, are drawing makes you nothing more than cheap cowards.

Say what you mean. If TC would just admit his blatant racism I'd still bash him for it but he'd earn a little respect for honesty.

As is, he's a racist speaking in code and patheticly trying to cover for it.
 
#623
#623
lawgator1 said:
You, and he, hiding behind that when you know damn well the equivalency you, and he, are drawing makes you nothing more than cheap cowards.

Say what you mean. If TC would just admit his blatant racism I'd still bash him for it but he'd earn a little respect for honesty.

As is, he's a racist speaking in code and patheticly trying to cover for it.
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Help me out. What is the equivalency he was making?
 
#624
#624
DC_Vol said:
Help me out. What is the equivalency he was making?
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The equivalency he is drawing is that rampant violence by black people in Haiti compares to violence by black people in Baltimore, premised on the theory that black people are inherently more prone to violence.

If you can't see that is what he's implying, using location as a proxy, then we have nothing more to discuss because you can't just say what you mean. Don't be like TC. Be honest.
 
#625
#625
lawgator1 said:
The equivalency he is drawing is that rampant violence by black people in Haiti compares to violence by black people in Baltimore, premised on the theory that black people are inherently more prone to violence.

If you can't see that is what he's implying, using location as a proxy, then we have nothing more to discuss because you can't just say what you mean. Don't be like TC. Be honest.
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Did he ever mention the race in the piece? I didn’t actually see it.
 
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