Colin Flaherty: Baltimore Crime NUMBAHS. Fewer 'Black People' Arrest, Yeah!

Baltimore Crime NUMBAHS. Fewer 'Black People' Arrest, Yeah!

Baltimore Crime Homicide - Colin Flaherty reviews and gives commentary on news with headlines "Arrests by Baltimore police continue years-long decline"

Luke Broadwater Feb 8, 2018
When the Baltimore police union warned officers this week that if a jury in a civil lawsuit finds they acted with malice, they could be made to pay personally, some predicted police would make fewer arrests.

Arrests by Baltimore police have been dropping every year since 2003, when Martin O’Malley was mayor. Arrests have fallen more than 77 percent since then.

The Democratic future governor instituted a “zero tolerance” policing strategy in Baltimore that he credited with reducing crime. But civil liberties groups blamed it for widening the gulf between police and the community.