Baltimore police stopped noticing crime after Freddie Gray's death. A wave of killing

[Belsnickel]

This is one of those things that, like most, requires a bit more nuance than the typical conversation about it tends to hold onto. There are nuggets of truth to the statements of both SSF and GMDino.

It is true that there was an effort by officers in some cities, Baltimore included if I recall correctly, to purposely stop doing their jobs in an effort to "show the people." The results have been different in different places. At the same time, there have been places where police feel abandoned by their administration in the face of public scrutiny. Of course, we've had news items in the past year about literal cards being handed out to police to get them and/or their friends and family off of minor crimes.

I think both sides of this issue tend to carry it to the extreme, as is typical of today's controversies. There has to be a middle ground to come to on this, but the two sides aren't willing to hear those solutions at the moment.