TBH there are more bike lock up spots than in the past. Especially when they removed Lou Catelli's trikes from some of them...

Powers st? I lived at 807 for 4 years, fun times.

Maybe I was a bit too wild in the 70s, back down to Earth with a lounge singer shimmer

They’re probably dealing as well!

if you are looking for a non Police solution (not that you aren’t entitled to that or that I’m saying you shouldn’t by any means). There is a harm reduction org in the area (SPARC) that has good rapport with users in the area that might be able to engage the people of the house for you (and anonymously). But idk how much they are involved with dealers as opposed to “low level” users.

If you want to engage the police the district leadership are usually pretty responsive to that kind of stuff (atleast vocally idk what it looks like in the back end) but the district emails are on the BPD webpages or if you go to their monthly meetings (hybrid w/ a zoom meeting) you can talk to them directly and the district detective units usually give their direct contact info

Most of the extreme incarcerations that ruined neighborhoods were drug related in the last 40 years, not violent crime related.

We can be hard on violence and decriminalize drugs and stop the racist drug war.

Drugs right now only overlap so hugely with violent crime because both are heavily criminalized. And while hard drugs like heroin will never be good, we can approach them as a health problem rather than a crime problem and reduce violence along the way.

It's not really valid anywhere in the city when it comes to violent crimes or some crimes in progress. Violent crimes are dispatched typically immediately. An officer is usually already in route even while the 911 call taker is still on the phone with the caller. Its why the 911 call takers always ask for location and reason for calling first, and then ask a bunch of questions afterwards. As soon as they find out what the crime is and the location that info is pushed to the dispatcher, who alerts officers and sends them to the location. Additional info is pushed through as the 911 call taker obtains it. Property crimes and other quality of life type crimes are pushed to the back of the line.

Yes. Wine source parking lot.

The merchants don’t like that idea but I think it would be pretty cool.

Good point…

This one: https://imgur.com/a/CxvNpuJ

> that hasn’t worked

Until the last few years crime rates in the United States had been dropping at a remarkable rate for decades, decades that just happened to coincide with the rise of so-called mass incarceration.

So you're saying that the 16 minute response time isn't valid in the more violent neighborhoods because cops will put their calls on hold for more violent crime?

To add to u/Kooky_Deal9566 … look at your bill. If you cannot find your contract, take the energy supplier price (usually just a one line when it’s a different supplier) and divide by your total kilowatt hours for that month. That will give you your price per kilowatt.

More like, "I'll take Things someone who has been forced to interact with the police would say" Some of you still think the cops are out here to help you, and you are gonna have a nasty awakening someday.

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Safety is the Safety and Crime Prevention meetings. One of the block captains from across Wilkens is the main Safety contact for us, they have the meetings at people’s houses around Saint Agnes and Violetville. The block captains are the people who receive the information from dpw, dot, other city agencies to share it with the neighbors on the block. The system used to be more organized, it’s slowly coming back as crime went up and more people want to do something to stop it.

Sigh, first the bike rack disappears, now this. Going to have to find an alternative to the Wine Source.

I'll take Things A Criminal Would Say, for $500 Alex.

Baltimore has not been giving significant jail time to gun offenders at any point in recent history, so they can't really "keep" doing it. One of the city's last homicide victims had 4 gun arrests by the ripe old age of 25. If he had actually been held for one of the more recent ones he'd still be alive.

No it does not

FYI - Average response time is a bad metric. 911 calls are triaged. A call for someone reporting that their neighbor is being annoying is going to sit in the dispatchers box for a while until all higher priority calls are dealt with. If a shooting comes out it'll sit for hours, which is going to significantly reduce an average call time.

Show us on the doll where Dave Gahan made u fall in love, only to break your heart

And you think the cops are going to help you? LOL.

I'm not saying I want drug dealers on the street - I'm saying that cops don't actually help in these situations, so we need to come up with alternative ways to help our communities. Because cops in general don't have any interest in helping their communities, let alone Baltimore Cops.

As someone whose house is pictured here, I can confirm that I am very lazy.