According to newspaper, and eye witness reports three Baltimore City Police stations are closed from 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. I have not been able to get hours of operation from the BPD for any of their stations. My phone calls have not been answered in two cases, and in one I was treated like a suspect in a crime. Recently one mugging victim did go to two police stations that refused to grant him entry, because they stated that people “want to shoot us up.”
In Eastern Baltimore County, with the highest county crime rate, police coverage [by my observations] has been reduced to the point where I see one police car a day and zero at night, where I once saw at least three a night and two a day. We used to receive 2-5 police visits at night in the overnight market where I work. That has been reduced from 1 to zero, usually zero. It is very interesting to me that Baltimore County is now mimicking Baltimore City in terms of its police operations. Baltimore County suffered no attacks on police or government buildings during the purge, completely neglected to assist whites being purged by black gangs, and has still not scaled police operations in working class or high crime areas back up to anywhere near the pre-purge levels.
A convenience store clerk was recently robbed in Baltimore County, and reported the crime to me as the police were unsympathetic and seemed disinclined to follow up on her report. She blames the County PD for refusing to visit her location, and asked me not to give details of her experience for fear of police reprisals.
My neighborhood of Hamilton, which is one of the 50/50 white/black race mixing zones in the city, and has a well financed and aggressive community association, now has two regular patrol cars and one foot patrolman. The stations that are closed for 12 hours a day—that I know of—are in higher crime areas. The patrolling of a border zone like Hamilton, and of the county enclaves at the expense of working class areas does make sense, in that locations with the highest tax base and highest likelihood of supporting proactive policing are receiving better than pre-purge patrolling, and working and lower class areas are being left unpoliced. In fact, yesterday, as I sat on a bus stop bench waiting for Erique to pick me up for our sparring session, a pig parked across the street from me and observed me for 15 minutes.
We are getting from 4-6 police sirens, and two helicopter searches per day, which is what one expects in a portion of a county precinct bordering the city. In the area just north of Hamilton, the Parkville zone of the city [with most of Parkville sprawling across the county] police coverage is thinner. There, where I now buy my beer since Inchon John has shut down, four Sikh men run a nice liquor store and provide their own security, herding the blacks in and out like Arabs running a slave caravan across the Sudan. As a white man I have found that patronizing Korean, Indian, Pakistani, Sikh and Latino businesses often begins a reciprocal relationship in the face of a common enemy.
As our urban police forces fail to keep pace with the criminal gangs and fail to live up to the expectations of their federal masters, expect more enclave policing, which makes your choice of residency much more specifically important than it once was.
What precinct would you be living in if you chose this house?
What are the hours of operation for the local police station?
Is there a community association, and are their requests for a responsive police presence met?
As the nation deteriorates the only secure location for raising a family in an urban environment is going to be an enclave with a good tax base, anchor businesses owned by local businessmen [not chain operations], a community association that can get officers assigned to your sector sometime or all of the time, and, ultimately—as in declining Rome where gladiators became sought after private bodyguards—the employment of security professionals [already under way in the next neighborhood over], and, when the government finally weakens enough to permit citizen militias, citizen patrols.
Do not expect the government to take kindly to militia activity. Permitting colonial militias didn’t work out too well for the British at Bunker Hill, and Baltimore County and City have both blocked the Guardian Angels from aiding citizens beset by crime, even as the officers of the state hunker down in their police stations. Until there is a broad-based collapse and police in your area have been openly defeated by criminals and are not relieved by state or federal military units, organizing citizen defenses will tend to bring a lot of heat.
<blockquote>As the nation deteriorates the only secure location for raising a family in an urban environment is going to be an enclave with a good tax base, anchor businesses owned by local businessmen [not chain operations], a community association that can get officers assigned to your sector sometime or all of the time, and, ultimately—as in declining Rome where gladiators became sought after private bodyguards—the employment of security professionals [already under way in the next neighborhood over], and, when the government finally weakens enough to permit citizen militias, citizen patrols</blockquote>
These policed sectors cannot hold out against government designs to diversify them with section 8 and a whole host of other handouts. Why live in a garrison?
How are the private bodyguards and security professionals working out? Why does the government permit them since they are a threat to its power?
I agree PR.
Do not raise a family in an urban area.
If you must, do not make Baltimore your choice of municipality.
If you, for some reason, move into the city I moved my family out of, before diving back into the pit, then we currently live in a transitional time in which private security people face less legal heat than police. That will change. Until then, the bouncer will be more effective than a cop.
Eventually, private security will fall under the sanction of an entity—probably federal—similar to police internal affairs departments. At that point, we will have reached the every-man-for himself stage, when only the superrich will be able to employ private security effectively, as they will have the necessary funds to bribe the feds through a lobbyist, and community associations will only be able to hire operators forced to work at a force disadvantage with limited operational latitude.
I know a refrigeration mechanic who just moved to Baltimore to work on the HVAC units which are, as a rule, stripped of copper by departing Section-8 residents. I have advised him not to move his family into town, but to keep them out of town and commute.