The Baltimore Sun released some pretty interesting figures in a recent article…
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/crime/bal-md.hermann24sep24,0,728118.story
The 107 people charged with murder last year had accumulated a combined 1,065 prior arrests – 380 related to guns and 99 related to drugs.
The 234 people killed last year had a combined 2,404 prior arrests – 162 related to guns and 898 related to drugs.
That’s an average of 10 arrests per suspect and 10.3 arrests per victim. The numbers, from city police logs, are virtually identical for the first nine months of this year, with suspects averaging 11.1 arrests and victims 9.6. And the numbers are virtually identical to statistics from a decade ago.
That might help explain why Baltimore, even with a much-heralded 20-year low in slayings last year, is still the nation’s second-deadliest city in per-capita homicides, behind only Detroit.
Baltimore is a filthy drug and crime ridden shithole, or a pretty nice place with renovated row houses and small community businesses opening up. Other areas are becoming like Mexico (or Puerto Rico or wherever the fuck they’re coming from – “Mexico” is just an easy catch-all. You may think it’s racist, but the cultural difference between Mexicans and Dominicans is significantly smaller than Mexicans and Blacks or Whites, enough to lump them together for my purposes.)
The question is, with an average of 10 to 11 arrests per perp., WHY THE FUCK WERE THEY ON THE STREET?
Note – some people murdered or murdering in Baltimore may have had NO priors, meaning they skewed the average down for the repeat offenders. If I had the time, you could get a better idea of the criminal activities of these folks by knocking out those with no criminal history and finding that average.
The story highlights this with the following:
Police repeatedly complain that the people they put in handcuffs only return to the streets to do more harm. Here are the number of times some murder suspects and victims from last year had been arrested: 74, 71, 49, 40, 38, 34, 29. … The list goes on.
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