That stimulus money should be held accountable. Doesn't the federal gov't require accounting for it? If not why not. The mayor makes over $160,000 and the police commisioner over $190,000, go figure.
The stimulus also gave the city $26 million for the “Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. Neighborhood Stabilization Program,” to “redevelop residential foreclosed, abandoned, or vacant properties in designated neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.”
Roughly $9.5 million went towards homelessness prevention.
A total of $5,644,792 of Community Services Block Grants went to Baltimore meant to “promote the economic and social well-being of children, youth, families and communities.
The stimulus also gave the city $26 million for the “Healthy Neighborhoods, Inc. Neighborhood Stabilization Program,” to “redevelop residential foreclosed, abandoned, or vacant properties in designated neighborhoods in Baltimore, Maryland.”
Roughly $9.5 million went towards homelessness prevention.
A total of $5,644,792 of Community Services Block Grants went to Baltimore meant to “promote the economic and social well-being of children, youth, families and communities.
“HANDS UP; DON’T SHOOT; I CAN’T BREATHE; I HAVE A BROKEN NECK”
MAY 5, 2015 COACH COLLINS LEAVE A COMMENT
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
The lies don’t really matter. There are no spontaneous demonstrations anymore; just anarchistic attacks on society which are managed and orchestrated to appear spontaneous.
The spirit of America has been infected and degraded by a president who hates us and loves seeing the agony we are in as we try to prove a negative. That negative is, “There is no systematic police brutality.”
There is no systematic “police brutality” in America. There are occasional bad acting cops who become the center of claims that the whole American system of policing is corrupt and rotten, but no evidence of systematic police brutality. These cases give rise to asinine comments like “We should disarm our police,” and “The police are causing the violence.”
But they never prove the unprovable.
The left spews so many lies it is hard to keep up with them; but they are right about one thing: There is a pattern to these so-called “police brutality” cases and it’s that the original story invariably turns out to be a lie.
We saw a lie that Eric Garner was killed by a choke hold while he was saying, “I can’t breathe.” This is impossible since a choke hold is only lethal if the victim’s wind pipe is crushed. Eric Garner couldn’t breathe because he was addicted to cheeseburgers and weighed about 300 pounds; yet anarchists still run through our streets chanting “I can’t breathe.”
We saw a lie that Michael Brown was shot while he had his hands up begging Office Wilson with, “Don’t shoot.” That was scientifically proved false and witnesses said it never happened. Brown died because he was high on drugs and although unarmed, thought he could overpower an armed, trained police officer who was not high on drugs; yet anarchists attack police officers chanting, “Hands up don’t shoot.”
Now we have Freddie Gray who started his trip to a Baltimore police station able to walk on his own and arrived with a broken neck. The anarchists immediately claimed “police brutality.” Nevertheless, that story is falling apart by the hour because it is a lie. Gray was not “Just getting over back surgery.” He was still counting the money he made from settling an old case involving a car accident and wanted more from the system. Now the anarchists chant, “My neck is broken.”
Soon the criminal anarchists will be too busy chanting to destroy our cities. After all, “Hands up; don’t shoot; I can’t breathe; I have a broken neck” is a mouthful.
MAY 5, 2015 COACH COLLINS LEAVE A COMMENT
By Kevin “Coach” Collins
The lies don’t really matter. There are no spontaneous demonstrations anymore; just anarchistic attacks on society which are managed and orchestrated to appear spontaneous.
The spirit of America has been infected and degraded by a president who hates us and loves seeing the agony we are in as we try to prove a negative. That negative is, “There is no systematic police brutality.”
There is no systematic “police brutality” in America. There are occasional bad acting cops who become the center of claims that the whole American system of policing is corrupt and rotten, but no evidence of systematic police brutality. These cases give rise to asinine comments like “We should disarm our police,” and “The police are causing the violence.”
But they never prove the unprovable.
The left spews so many lies it is hard to keep up with them; but they are right about one thing: There is a pattern to these so-called “police brutality” cases and it’s that the original story invariably turns out to be a lie.
We saw a lie that Eric Garner was killed by a choke hold while he was saying, “I can’t breathe.” This is impossible since a choke hold is only lethal if the victim’s wind pipe is crushed. Eric Garner couldn’t breathe because he was addicted to cheeseburgers and weighed about 300 pounds; yet anarchists still run through our streets chanting “I can’t breathe.”
We saw a lie that Michael Brown was shot while he had his hands up begging Office Wilson with, “Don’t shoot.” That was scientifically proved false and witnesses said it never happened. Brown died because he was high on drugs and although unarmed, thought he could overpower an armed, trained police officer who was not high on drugs; yet anarchists attack police officers chanting, “Hands up don’t shoot.”
Now we have Freddie Gray who started his trip to a Baltimore police station able to walk on his own and arrived with a broken neck. The anarchists immediately claimed “police brutality.” Nevertheless, that story is falling apart by the hour because it is a lie. Gray was not “Just getting over back surgery.” He was still counting the money he made from settling an old case involving a car accident and wanted more from the system. Now the anarchists chant, “My neck is broken.”
Soon the criminal anarchists will be too busy chanting to destroy our cities. After all, “Hands up; don’t shoot; I can’t breathe; I have a broken neck” is a mouthful.
Introducing Eric Holder in drag:
Attorney General Lynch Meets Gray Family in Baltimore
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/attorney-general-lynch-visit-baltimore-police-death-30809057
Is she going to fly to NYC to meet with Brian Moore's family?
Nope, doesn't Obama's narrative.
Disgusting! :>(
Attorney General Lynch Meets Gray Family in Baltimore
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/attorney-general-lynch-visit-baltimore-police-death-30809057
Is she going to fly to NYC to meet with Brian Moore's family?
Nope, doesn't Obama's narrative.
Disgusting! :>(
Absolutely brutal takedown of this racial grievance monger prosecutor:
Ms. Mosby was so hasty it appears she locked up two completely innocent officers. She charged Freddie Gray’s arresting officers with “false imprisonment” because she said the knife that Gray had on him was legal. In fact, as The Sun reported, the Police Task Force found it to be illegal after all. It was Ms. Mosby who had no probable cause to lock the arresting officers up, an injustice she could have easily avoided by taking her time.
...
Published ethical standards prohibit the use of a prosecutor's powers for political (crowd control) or personal (career ambition) purposes. They demand that prosecutors be fair and objective and protect the innocence. Instead Ms. Mosby, without all of the evidence yet available to her, pandered to the public by promising "justice" for Freddie Gray.
...
And she has created a new expectation in the city: that police officers who arrest without what she considers to be probable cause (a subjective standard) are subject not just to civil action (the current norm) but criminal action. Mere mistakes, or judgments exercised under duress, can land them in the pokey.
Page Croyder spent 21 years in the Baltimore state's attorneys office, most recently as a deputy state's attorney
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When you announce at a news conference that you heard calls for 'no justice, no peace' when your job is to objectively examine facts, you are a dunce and should not be in your job.
This isn't going to end well.
Ms. Mosby was so hasty it appears she locked up two completely innocent officers. She charged Freddie Gray’s arresting officers with “false imprisonment” because she said the knife that Gray had on him was legal. In fact, as The Sun reported, the Police Task Force found it to be illegal after all. It was Ms. Mosby who had no probable cause to lock the arresting officers up, an injustice she could have easily avoided by taking her time.
...
Published ethical standards prohibit the use of a prosecutor's powers for political (crowd control) or personal (career ambition) purposes. They demand that prosecutors be fair and objective and protect the innocence. Instead Ms. Mosby, without all of the evidence yet available to her, pandered to the public by promising "justice" for Freddie Gray.
...
And she has created a new expectation in the city: that police officers who arrest without what she considers to be probable cause (a subjective standard) are subject not just to civil action (the current norm) but criminal action. Mere mistakes, or judgments exercised under duress, can land them in the pokey.
Page Croyder spent 21 years in the Baltimore state's attorneys office, most recently as a deputy state's attorney
====
When you announce at a news conference that you heard calls for 'no justice, no peace' when your job is to objectively examine facts, you are a dunce and should not be in your job.
This isn't going to end well.
Last week: Destruction of property is political speech, and the rioters should be left alone!
This week: Drawing cartoons is violence!
And btw, isn't this whole stupid dimocrap narrative that the Garland art show "provoked" Muslims essentially the same logic as suggesting a rape victim "had it coming" because she dressed a certain way?
Note this was in 2013:
By Jayne MillerBIO
Baltimore mayor discusses possible police pay raises
Mayor: Shrinking Police Department among options
UPDATED 8:12 AM EDT Sep 19, 2013
BALTIMORE —Do city cops deserve a pay raise? Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said all options are on the table, including shrinking the size of the Police Department.
The issue came up this week when Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts spoke with the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team.
The mayor just cut a deal with firefighters that allowed a pay raise and changed the way the department operates. Could something similar happen with police? The police union said yes.
A rookie police officer's pay in the city is just over $43,000 a year -- competitive with departments in the surrounding counties. The problem, the police union said, comes as city officers gain experience and tenure.
"On average, our lieutenants, our sergeants, our police officers, even at the midlevel of their career are making 80, 82, 84 percent of average between Montgomery, Prince George's, State Police and Baltimore County," union spokesman Bob Cherry said.
In an interview aired Tuesday, Batts advocated a pay raise for copsto stem the flow of those who jump to other departments to make more money. On Wednesday, the mayor didn't argue with that idea.
"We have to have competitive salaries. It's just how do we get there in a fiscally responsible way?" Rawlings-Blake said.
But how big of a raise is the question.
"Just to break even, you would need at least a 16-18 percent pay raise now. Does the mayor have that? No. We know that," Cherry said.
About to head to the bargaining table, the union said it wants to talk about its own reform plan to make the department smaller and more nimble with better police pay. It would require big changes to the way police are deployed.
"If your population has shifted in the last 20-30 years, but the officer numbers in your district are based on population numbers from 30-40 years ago, we have got to make a change," Cherry said.
The mayor was cautious but agreed that it may be time to consider shrinking the size of the department.
"We certainly know that crime trends have changed, populations have shifted. We have to be responsive to that, and in doing so, you have to take a look at the model for the amount of officers we need, and everything is on the table," Rawlings-Blake said.
Baltimore mayor discusses possible police pay raises
Mayor: Shrinking Police Department among options
UPDATED 8:12 AM EDT Sep 19, 2013
BALTIMORE —Do city cops deserve a pay raise? Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said all options are on the table, including shrinking the size of the Police Department.
- POLICE COMMISSIONER WANTS HIGHER PAY FOR OFFICERS
Baltimore's Police Commissioner Anthony Batts says if the city wants a lower crime rate give city officers a pay raise.
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The issue came up this week when Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts spoke with the WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team.
The mayor just cut a deal with firefighters that allowed a pay raise and changed the way the department operates. Could something similar happen with police? The police union said yes.
A rookie police officer's pay in the city is just over $43,000 a year -- competitive with departments in the surrounding counties. The problem, the police union said, comes as city officers gain experience and tenure.
"On average, our lieutenants, our sergeants, our police officers, even at the midlevel of their career are making 80, 82, 84 percent of average between Montgomery, Prince George's, State Police and Baltimore County," union spokesman Bob Cherry said.
In an interview aired Tuesday, Batts advocated a pay raise for copsto stem the flow of those who jump to other departments to make more money. On Wednesday, the mayor didn't argue with that idea.
"We have to have competitive salaries. It's just how do we get there in a fiscally responsible way?" Rawlings-Blake said.
But how big of a raise is the question.
"Just to break even, you would need at least a 16-18 percent pay raise now. Does the mayor have that? No. We know that," Cherry said.
About to head to the bargaining table, the union said it wants to talk about its own reform plan to make the department smaller and more nimble with better police pay. It would require big changes to the way police are deployed.
"If your population has shifted in the last 20-30 years, but the officer numbers in your district are based on population numbers from 30-40 years ago, we have got to make a change," Cherry said.
The mayor was cautious but agreed that it may be time to consider shrinking the size of the department.
"We certainly know that crime trends have changed, populations have shifted. We have to be responsive to that, and in doing so, you have to take a look at the model for the amount of officers we need, and everything is on the table," Rawlings-Blake said.
You can't expect consistency from people who are liars and hypocrites.
CNN Chris Cuomo (son of Gov Cuomo) made a complete ass of himself on Twitter this morning screeching that "hate speech" (term has no meaning under US Law) has no 1st Amendment protections.
Modern liberals are the dumbest people who have ever lived.
Not surprised in the least you don't see the comparison. Like I said, it could be argued that a woman dressing a certain way is a "deliberate provocation" for a rapist. Exact... Same... Logic.
Its also incredibly amusing to see you constantly use the "what you said flies in the face of what such and such Republican said" card. Why? It proves you can't think for yourself. Just because you get your talking points from Comedy Central and your dimocrap leaders doesn't mean conservatives do the same.
The other point is what happened in Garland falls under free speech. If you're offended, tough shit. The Book of Mormon play and Piss Christ are also offensive to religions. Sorry, your cult of choice doesn't get an exception.
