Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby recently derailed an initiative to bring together city leaders, law enforcement commanders, academics, public health officials and others to identify real-time homicide trends and develop targeted responses — the latest crime-fighting program to falter amid a dramatic spike in violence..
After months of promising unprecedented transparency and collaboration with law enforcement partners, Mosby said she didn't want to share information that others in the fledgling Baltimore Homicide Review Commission considered critical to success.
Daniel Webster, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research and the academic chosen to lead the project, said Mosby's position "really defeated the purpose and it completely took the air out of the whole Mosby blocks an initiative to study all factors in the murders in an attempt to deal with the real issues. Hmmm could it be because she knows the study will identify the real problem is young black males not white cops? The Police Union is outraged that Mosby is still relating the rising murders to racial policing while blocking attempts by the agencies to identify the real reasons. The police union claims Mosby has painted a target on the backs of police officers and her whole focus is a racial anti-police agenda rather than prosecuting crime. The fact that her father and her uncle were fired from the Baltimore PD by white officers is the root of her hatred. Baltimore citizens are getting what they voted for, let the blood flow, pass the popcorn.process, and I notified the police commissioner and mayor's office and health commissioner that it just wasn't going to work. ... It was incredibly frustrating."
It's a method of digging deeper into "the actual factors that lead to homicides, how much of this is drugs, how much of this is gang conflict, gang-to-gang conflict, how much is generated by substance abuse," said Webster, who was asked by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to lead the Baltimore commission.
Mosby blocks an initiative to study all factors in the murders in an attempt to deal with the real issues. Hmmm could it be because she knows the study will identify the real problem is young black males not white cops? The Police Union is outraged that Mosby is still relating the rising murders to racial policing while blocking attempts by the agencies to identify the real reasons. The police union claims Mosby has painted a target on the backs of police officers and her whole focus is a racial anti-police agenda rather than prosecuting crime. Many feel the fact that her father and her uncle were fired from the Baltimore PD by white officers is the root of her hatred.
Baltimore citizens are getting what they voted for, I'm betting they will re-elect Mosby when she runs again, let Baltimore blood flow, just don't whine to the rest of us about it, pass the popcorn.