Baltimore cops pressured to police differently, but also begged to clear the corners

[NaturalHigh]

BALTIMORE — They’d come to the same church on the same night to confront the same quandary facing this city’s beleaguered police department. But what they wanted from the police couldn’t have been more different.

Eight days had passed since the Justice Department issued a scathing review of the Baltimore Police Department, detailing years of racial discrimination in its law enforcement practices.

Yet the 40 or so longtime residents who gathered in a West Baltimore church basement on this August night — many of whom were older black women afraid to walk to the store or leave their homes at night — had come to urge police to clear their corners of miscreants and restore order to their crime-plagued community.

“Please, help me,” pleaded gas station owner Chaudhry Masood, whose parking lot has been overrun by loiterers and where a 17-year-old was recently shot and killed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/baltimore-cops-pressured-to-police-differently-but-also-begged-to-clear-the-corners/2016/08/25/9e2372da-631e-11e6-96c0-37533479f3f5_story.html

[DustyJoe]

1. Time for Lynch to step up

Now that the DOJ has set new ground rules for the local PD, the DOJ needs to send in trainers and FBI and put them in squad cars every night to show the PD how to do their job the DOJ way. It will be interesting to see any guidance the DOJ may set forth as how to identify a 'miscreant' that needs to be cleared from standing on a street corner without said miscreant having a probably fairly valid claim of profiling. So. c'mon DOJ get your suits into uniforms and marked squad cars and show these local 'as you see them' yokel Barney Fifes how it's done the federalized way. Making misdemeanors 'loitering' a federal case, the next DOJ target.