Baltimore records deadliest month in more than 40 years.

[Major Hogwash]

SOURCE: Baltimore Sun

With three men killed in eastside shootings on Sunday, Baltimore recorded its deadliest month in more than 40 years..

The 43 killings in May surpassed the 42 homicides the city saw in August 1990, and left Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake defending police and her administration.

Speaking at a morning ceremony to honor McKenzie Elliott, the 3-year-old killed by a stray bullet in August, Rawlings-Blake said it's time to stop finger-pointing and assigning blame for the recent violence.

The killing of African-Americans in Baltimore has to stop, she said, noting that 189 of the 208 killed last year were black men. For the city to improve, all homicides need to drop, she added.

"We have to do better," the mayor said. "We have to want more."

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http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/blog/bs-md-ci-shootings-20150531-story.html?track=rss

[Koinos]

1. Hard for her to defend police she's having investigated by the Justice Department.

[sheshe2]

2. We have to...

"We have to do better," the mayor said. "We have to want more."

So much violence. So much death.

It is heartbreaking, Major Hogwash.

[Vinca]

3. Haven't the police indicated they're in a "slow down?"

Apparently, they're upset all cops can't get away with killing people. IMHO, if they don't want to do their jobs, fire them and hire a new force.

[Major Hogwash]

4. As of Sunday, St. Louis recorded 70 homicides for the year, 18 ahead of the same period in 2014.

Baltimore isn't the only city in crisis.

[yeoman6987]

5. They are definitely in slow down

They will not get involved in any situation that requires things to look bad on police. That was reported somewhere. I am embarrassed I don't have the proof but it was something very close to that. They basically are on strike without formally doing so.

[Oktober]

6. Have you considered blaming the actual people who murdered folks?

[Vinca]

7. Well . . . duh. Of course they're to blame, but

the violence might be contained if the cops weren't such tender flowers. If you're too afraid to go into the community and police, you shouldn't be on the job. And by going into the community to police I don't mean shooting people every time someone says "boo." The current problem is about 99% the fault of the cops and the system of letting them off. I was a cop, by the way, and I've never been so sickened then when we all got to watch Mr. Garner murdered for selling loose cigarettes . . . and then the cops got off. That scene has been repeated over and over and over and over again. Certainly there are good cops. Excellent cops. It's a shame they feel the need to cover up for the bad cops. Something has changed in the law enforcement community and it hasn't been for the good.

[romanic]

8. This seems to go beyond cops imo.

There are just way too many guns in the wrong hands: criminals and crooked cops alike. Not to mention this insidious feeling of having to be "tough" in the inner city and shoot somebody to prove a point or solve an issue. Gun violence has got to stop before it wipes our people out.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

9. The police are pouting and playing a zero-sum game.

They're upset that six of their own were charged for the death of a man, so they figure they'll swing the pendulum all the way to the other side and not do their job at all. They seem incapable of understanding the happy medium of smart policing.