A new episode of Quality Policing is out. Check it out. We talk about many things including the DC body cam study that seems to show body cams don’t change anything. We beg to differ. Body cams just don’t change what people think they do.
We don’t, however, talk about the details of the dirty gun squad in the Baltimore Police Department. You can read about that in the Sun. The details are salacious.
Nor do we talk about the Feds busting a drug crewin East Baltimore. Arrested a dozen or so, including “Rat” and “Juicy” and recovered, get this hundreds of, er, grams of drugs.
The shop opened at 6:30AM and continued into the early evening. with about 10 drug transactions per hour. Let’s say 100 transaction a day at $10 profit per. That’s a good living. But divided by 13 plus people, it’s not that much money. One of the dealers worked “at the Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel downtown and sold drugs to hotel guests in addition to working with the East Baltimore gang.” He remarked on a wiretap:
That it was “more stressful to have a job” than to “just be out here hustlin’.”
Ain’t that the truth.
Meanwhile in Baltimore, a supervisor in the Department of Transportation was charged by the Feds. Shoplifting turns violent. And the killing continues unabated, 23 people killed to date, this monthalone.
All this, and you’d think some city leader would take blame for something. But no, it’s never the fault of the leaders. Not as long they say they’re for “reform.” What are they reforming? Perhaps, in a city without accountability, they’re part of the problem.
On the plus side, lead is down. Maybe homicides will drop similarly in the 2030s.
Intesting about the lead at the end of the story. Lead is just super bad for humans.
Have you followed any of those stories that correlate the crime spike in the 20th century with the wide adoption of leaded gasoline? And the recent drop in crime to the adoption of unleaded gas?
Apparently it correlates nationally and internationally. And since different places adopted unleaded at different points in time, you can watch that track across time points as well.
Try the google, there are lots of stories about it. Any thoughts from a cop's perspective?
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Just listened to "Divert to Where?" Really nice work, thanks.