
Crimes of the Present
The Dispatch Podcast
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Crime Is Not Like the Weather, Right?
Crime went down in the nineties and why it started to go up after freddi gray. In baltimore city, the net loss of police officers over the last 20 years is a thousand officers. One factor to is prosecutors stopped prosecuting cases. Criminals have gotten emboldened. They see from they know ther their riend is still wandering around. And there are some really lucid examples of that. Can i give you one? Ah, in baltimore, we have the highest fatality rate of any american city. It turns out baltimore had the highest average casing at crime scenes. So our shooters were literally using bullets, more bullets than other cities. These
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