some dirt on O'Malley for the liberals who like him

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https://www.themarshallproject.org/2015/04/29/david-simon-on-baltimore-s-anguish

about his 2 terms as Mayor of Baltimore.

search "O'Malley" and you'll find the relevant parts.  he totally cooked the stats, discourages people from reporting robberies and even rapes, and though the murder rate went down significantly, the 'clearance rate' on murders went from 75% to 48%.  

and plenty of other things about the horrors of policing, and the smartphone as a revolutionary tool that can put some teeth back into the 4th Amendment.

[King]

Only neoliberals accurately report crime stats.

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Only neoliberals accurately report crime stats.

what?  O'Malley's approach was perfectly neoliberal.

[Nhoj]

I mean we all watched the wire right? Im pretty sure that was a plot line.

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I mean we all watched the wire right? Im pretty sure that was a plot line.

it took me a while to figure out that Carcetti 'was' O'Malley.

[Thunderbird is the word]

It's good to know all this stuff, kills any chance I might have had of voting for him.

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Interesting article. Thoroughly enjoyed it and/or was disgusted by what it displayed about O'Malley's handling of the crime situation.

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Interesting article. Thoroughly enjoyed it and/or was disgusted by what it displayed about O'Malley's handling of the crime situation.

to be fair, it's not really O'Malley's fault in the last analysis, it's all a consequence of what the War on Drugs and the prison-industrial complex have done to policing.  you need two contradictory things: a) bodies to lock up while b) showing a decreased crime rate.  once you get the "real criminals" behind bars you have to start to cannibalize entire communities.  such is why the police are rightly viewed as an occupying army in the ghettoes - and increasingly, they dress the part.