Law and order: Violent Easter weekend - Fox Baltimore

At least twelve people were shot across the city over the weekend, with six of them being shot in separate incidents on Easter Sunday. This violence happening as the city is getting closer to one hundred homicides this year. Law enforcement expert and former chief of police in Martinsburg, West Virginia, Maury Richards joined us live to weigh in.

The violence and crime in Baltimore City have been described as dysfunction, and this dysfunction has become a norm in Baltimore.

“That’s a big part of it, and it has to do with a total failure in policies and leadership that does not recognize that they are going in the wrong direction and need to turn this ship around,” said Richards.

Residents in the city are speculating that Baltimore is heading for more disaster.

“The Baltimore police officers do a fantastic job but they're 500 officers short so it's impossible to do their very best when they're that short,” said Richards. “The day-to-day thing is great but if you don't have policies where, for instance, open air drug markets, the Mosby policy of not prosecuting drug possession and distribution, trespassing, all these things, has allowed those drug markets to keep open. until those things are changed, and police can go and make arrests and a prosecutor holds them accountable, as hard as police work, it's not going to get the job done.”

According to Richards, if things do not change soon, it will be a very bad summer.

source: https://foxbaltimore.com/morning/law-and-order-violent-easter-weekend

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