Mayor vows not to return to days of mass arrests in Baltimore.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday she will not combat crime by returning to the days of so-called mass arrests of minor offenses.
In an opinion-editorial piece published Wednesday in The Baltimore Sun, Gov. Martin O'Malley stepped up his campaign to get the city to go back to what he did when he was mayor: have a policing policy that led to more than 100,000 arrests per year -- many for minor offenses. . . .
O'Malley called critics of his policy "ideologues on the left." . . .
"Honest minds can differ, but this honest mind is also fact-dependent, and the data show that more arrests didn't lead to a safer city," Rawlings-Blake countered Wednesday.
God save us if O'Malley becomes president. As mayor, his horrendous arrest policies in Baltimore showed a complete disregard for fourth amendment rights. 100,000 arrests per year in a city of roughly 600,000. Many were arrested and then released without being charged because the arrest was bullshit. I am glad Rawlings-Blake is rejecting O'Malley's call for a return to the bad old days when O'Malley was mayor.
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