When reading posts, there are yellow stars against the names of the most respected Shrewds. The number of points in the star, starting at 3, represents the Shrewd'm-Star rating. This number is the average recommendation that the author received over the last 12 months.
- Manlobbi
Halls of Shrewd'm / US Policy
No. of Recommendations: 9
...thanks to "woke" policies.
This April, Baltimore saw five homicides. That is the fewest of any month since 1970, when the city began tracking monthly homicide numbers. In the first six months of the year, homicides were down 22% compared to 2024, and non-fatal shootings were down 19%. This is the latest in a string of historic declines in violent crime. In 2024, homicides dropped 23% from 2023 numbers, and non-fatal shootings dropped 34%. In 2023, the city also saw record-breaking decreases.
What has made Baltimore — which President Trump and other conservatives deride as a “filthy” Democrat-controlled “slum” — so successful in making its streets safer?
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott (D), who was first elected in 2020, has brought the city’s homicide rate down by treating violent crime as a public health crisis. That means treating violent crime as a symptom of multiple factors, including racism, poverty, and past violence. Addressing violent crime as a public health issue involves going beyond arresting people after violence is committed and taking proactive and preventative measures.Wait wut?
They didn't round up people on the street Gestapo-style and ship them off to foreign prisons or countries they had never ever set foot in?
How un-Trumpian... no wonder it's successful.
https://popular.info/p/the-secret-to-baltimores-ex...
No. of Recommendations: 2
LOL!
I recommend every blue city go woke on crime. You'll love it.
(It's highly, highly, highly unlikely that's all they did).
Going woke on crime means that pregnant women are murdered in their cars.
No. of Recommendations: 14
Dope1: I recommend every blue city go woke on crime. You'll love it.
(It's highly, highly, highly unlikely that's all they did).
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.
Here, for dimwits who cannot or will not read a short article:
In 2020 Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott created the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, which oversees city agencies and community partners working to reduce violence in the city and works in partnership with the Baltimore Police Department and the State’s Attorney’s Office, utilizes a collaboration between law enforcement, community members, and social services.
The city developed a Summer Youth Engagement Strategy and youth shooting victimizations decreased 66 percent and aggravated assault victimizations dropped 31 percent in 2024.
Safe Streets, which involves community members mediating conflicts in ten zones throughout the city that have historically had high gun violence rates “mediated over 2,300 conflicts” and “hosted 451 community mobilization events with 58,000+ total attendance, and on average, resulted in 32% lower homicide rates in the first four years.
Dope1Going woke on crime means that pregnant women are murdered in their cars.
Huh.
You sure you're not Stephen Miller who just yesterday was whining like you: "We have communities all across this nation that 20 years ago, before the era of open borders, were completely peaceful, completely stable. Look at a place like Minneapolis. Post mass migration they're unsafe, they're violent, you cannot use the public parks."
Well, I looked.
The city have seen crime rates fall significantly, including robberies (down 47%), carjackings (down 40%) and homicides (down 40%).
No. of Recommendations: 3
Here, for dimwits who cannot or will not read a short article:
"Also, Dude, dimwits is not the preferred nomenclature. Nitwits, please."
No. of Recommendations: 3
Tell me you didn't read the article without telling me you didn't read the article.I don't read much of what you post.
Safe Streets, which involves community members mediating conflicts in ten zones throughout the city that have historically had high gun violence rates “mediated over 2,300 conflicts” and “hosted 451 community mobilization events with 58,000+ total attendance, and on average, resulted in 32% lower homicide rates in the first four years.Good for them! They're the first blue city to maybe get it right, assuming any of these facts are correct.
Huh.Yup.
I really, really would like more of you people to live under the kind of governments you all pine for.
Well, I looked.
The city have seen crime rates fall significantly, including robberies (down 47%), carjackings (down 40%) and homicides (down 40%).It's freaking hilarious that you picked Minneapolis as the city you want to impale your argument on. Hahahahahahahaha. The riots stemming from St. George of Floyd's death piledrove that place into the ground.
Minneapolis:
Murders:
2010 - 37
2011 - 32
2012 - 39
2013 - 36
2014 -31
2015 - 47
2016 - 35
2017 - 42
2018 -31
2019 - 47
2020 - 83
2021 - 94
2022 - 79
2023 - 72
Yup. Double the murders since they went super woke.
Here's my favorite. Auto thefts:
2010 - 1903
2011 - 1775
2012 - 1817
2013 - 1575
2014 - 1531
2015 - 1717
2016 - 1987
2017 - 2388
2018 - 2190
2019 - 2909
2020 - 3979
2021 - 4198
2022 - 6150
2023 - 7774
Yeah, they've got crime on lockdown up in Minniehaha, don't they?
https://www.city-data.com/crime/crime-Minneapolis-...
No. of Recommendations: 2
The riots stemming from St. George of Floyd's death piledrove that place into the ground.
If the police suffocated you until you died--in public, AND it was recorded and played back at trial--should everyone cheer??
Parade??
Pizza party?
Get out of jail free card(s)?
Or what?
No. of Recommendations: 3
utilizes a collaboration between law enforcement, community members, and social services.
The city developed a Summer Youth Engagement Strategy and youth shooting victimizations decreased 66 percent and aggravated assault victimizations dropped 31 percent in 2024.
Safe Streets, which involves community members mediating conflicts in ten zones throughout the city that have historically had high gun violence rates “mediated over 2,300 conflicts” and “hosted 451 community mobilization events with 58,000+ total attendance, and on average, resulted in 32% lower homicide rates in the first four years.
Sounds too woke, so that can't possibly be what cause the reduction in crime. But even Grok agrees with the above. :)
