Some bright bulb in the anarcho-tyranny meat-locker named Aldiss, manager of the Lord-Baltimore Hotel, is heading a non-profit called the Downtown Partnership and is calling for a privately funded special police unit, paid for through the Overtime Desk at the BCPD. This has traditionally been used by neighborhood associations and retailers to pay for police protection. However, this system has come under stress with the flight of offices from the beleaguered department.
This is an admittance that what Inner Harbor employees have been telling this reporter is true, that at 5:30, the police and sheriffs leave the corners and the zombie hordes of Dindu aggression come out on the prowl.
See The Zone.
Johns Hopkins Hospital has, for about 20years, help fund a special police unit dedicated toward protecting their staff and clients. This has recently been expanded to the Campus along Charles Street. If this Downtown Partnership goes is successful in getting their own unit to guard upscale tourists—and they have to be, if this doesn’t fly the Inner Harbor will die—this will further drain the BPD ability to deter crime in residential areas, which will result in more urban flight, a further reduction of the tax base and increased crime.
This will cause a further negative spiral in terms of police responsiveness—which has been good outside of riot situations—to 911 [emergency] calls.
311 [nonemergency, complaint] calls are so poorly responded to that fewer are being made. So we may expect this aspect of police work to further fade.
With dropping of illegal gun charges and increasing numbers of short and suspended sentences for violent criminals and the release of the most violent criminals [youths] almost immediately, the BPD is on the verge of an overrun situation even as they are scheduled to be retrained in police work that stresses conversation with aggressive hoodlums over action.
Further drawdowns in available strength and increased fatigue among officers who are already having to sue the City for unpaid overtime, can be expected to increase the need for Federal augmentation of the 8th-largest police force in the nation, still unable to keep the lid on violent crime in the 25th largest city.
The darkening Future grimly beckons.
A Once Great Medieval City: 2016: Impressions of Baltimore Maryland
Under the God of Things
"...If this Downtown Partnership goes is successful in getting their own unit to guard upscale tourists—and they have to be, if this doesn’t fly the Inner Harbor will die—this will further drain the BPD ability to deter crime in residential areas, which will result in more urban flight, a further reduction of the tax base and increased crime.
This will cause a further negative spiral in terms of police responsiveness—which has been good outside of riot situations—to 911 [emergency] calls...
With dropping of illegal gun charges and increasing numbers of short and suspended sentences for violent criminals and the release of the most violent criminals [youths] almost immediately, the BPD is on the verge of an overrun situation even as they are scheduled to be retrained in police work that stresses conversation with aggressive hoodlums over action..."
Se I told you! "Broken Buildings Theory" of crime reduction.
"Paging Rodrigo Duterte. Rodrigo Duterte to the courtesy phone, please."