You’d Be Surprised WHO The OUTSIDE AGITATORS In Baltimore REALLY ARE

[Segami]

".....Even after the National Guard vacates the streets of Baltimore and the state of emergency is lifted, vast swaths of the city will remain under occupation. Rather than return to a deadly status quo, the city could start answering the crisis by enacting residential requirements that force police officers to live in the neighborhoods they patrol......"

~snip~

According to data posted on the city of Baltimore’s OpenBaltimore website in 2012, over 70 percent of Baltimore Police Department officers live outside city limits, with at least 10 percent living over state lines, in places as far away as New Jersey and Pennsylvania. By contrast, almost all of those arrested in ongoing protests sparked by the police killing of the unarmed Baltimorean Freddie Gray reside firmly within the city. These facts were apparently lost on Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake when she blamed “outside forces” for all the looting of local businesses and attacks on cops. Similarly, the Baltimore Police Department claimed that “outside agitators continue to be the instigators behind acts of violence and destruction,” even as it conceded in the same statement that “the vast majority of arrests reflect local residency.” No evidence of outside agitation was produced by the mayor or the police, and none was demanded by much of the media covering the ongoing troubles.


~snip~

Gerald Horne, a professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston, sees the legacy of slavery as an underlying factor in the policing of majority black cities like Baltimore. “The origins of the urban police department lies precisely in slavery,” Horne remarked in a recent interview with The Real News founder Paul Jay. “That is to say, slave patrols that were designated to interrogate, to investigate Africans who were out and about without any kind of investigation. You fast forward to 2015 and you still see more than remnants of that particular system.” “[Cops] won’t let us go nowhere,” one young Gilmore Homes resident complained to The Real News, “They’ll tell us, ‘Move, we gotta go here, you gotta move off there.’ We ain’t doing nothing!” When Paul Jay relocated The Real News operations to Baltimore in 2013 and initiated a series of roundtable discussions with local cops, he learned about the hostile racial attitudes white officers were importing into the city. “I’ve talked to some black cops in Baltimore and one of them told me that in the locker room,” Jay said, “and when they’re getting ready to go on their shift, some of the white cops joke…’Time to go back to work in the zoo.’”



While the Baltimore Police Department recruits its manpower outside city limits, its leadership is regularly junketed to training tours in Israel, the occupying power whose hyper-militarized settlers act as some of the Middle East’s most aggressive outside agitators. In September 2009, members of the Baltimore PD “toured [Israel] and met with their Israeli counterparts to exchange information relating to best practices and recent advancements in security and counterterrorism,” according to the trip’s sponsor, Project Interchange. A separate Israel tour organized by the neoconservative Jewish Institute for National Security saw members of the Baltimore PD “begin the process of sharing ‘lessons learned’ in Israel with their law enforcement colleagues in the United States.” Back in Maryland, the rate of citizens killed by police officers is skyrocketing. A report by the ACLU has found that 109 people died after encounters with Maryland police between 2010 and 2014, that almost 70 percent of those who died were black, and that over 40 percent of them were unarmed. In Baltimore alone, the city was forced to pay $5.7 million in lawsuits by suspects who accused police officers of beating them brutally and without cause.





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http://www.rawstory.com/2015/04/youd-be-surprised-who-the-outside-agitators-in-baltimore-really-are/

[SamKnause]

1. K&R

[djean111]

2. It has been pretty obvious to me that the police seem to consider themselves as occupying

forces, against people that they have absolutely no connection with. And it looks to me like that attitude, and the behaviors that follow from that, is encouraged and part of their training and indoctrination.

[daleanime]

3. +1

[fasttense]

5. Because the US is no longer a democracy

If the US were a democratic form of government, you would have people being fired and prosecuted for killing the people they are suppose to "serve and protect." Because We The People are NOT part of the democracy, We The People must be constantly monitored, controlled and stopped (by force if necessary) from showing our discontent.

Welcome to the fascist regime. You will do as you are told and suffer in silence. The uber rich will eventually get around to telling you what they want from you, in the meantime wait silently.

[Enthusiast]

4. Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Brilliant!

[mwooldri]

6. Police officers not living in the community in which they serve?

Despicable. It should be a requirement for the job.

Here, I have an idea. Police forces should make arrangements for their officers to live local. Provide housing for single officers. For families, have arrangements with local landlords for affordable housing. Yes, make housing a big perk of being a law enforcement officer.

I'm going to hazard a guess and say that a number of officers in the Baltimore police department live where they do because of the cost of housing. I have no facts to back this up, but it's the only rational reason why a police officer lives elsewhere.

Either that or it's a racial thing - there is segregation in America to this day, though generally I think it is self segregation.

[Human101948]

8. It's not the cost of housing...

It's the cost of housing and public services in "good neighborhoods" (i.e. racially segregated.) The critical aspect is racially segregated. They can't afford the lily white neighborhoods in Baltimore itself but they can if they move further out in the suburbs.

Interesting analysis by Nate Silver--

"This statistic is intimately tied to the diversity of the police force: Black and Hispanic officers are considerably more likely to reside in the cities they police than white ones. In New York, for example, 62 percent of the police force resides within the five boroughs — a comparatively high figure. But there’s a stark racial divide. Seventy-seven percent of black New York police officers live in the city, and 76 percent of Hispanic ones do, but the same is true for only 45 percent of white officers."

http://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/most-police-dont-live-in-the-cities-they-serve/

[erlewyne]

9. Just, simply, work where you pay taxes

I walk down the street to pay my taxes. Yes, make where you pay taxes closer if need be.
People being paid by the community should work in that community.

[hack89]

18. That wouldn't work in my town

Housing costs and property taxes are way too high for teachers, fireman and police (I live on an island with limited land to develop and lots of houses on/near the water). The same applies to neighboring towns - most of our teachers, police and firemen commute. Many live 20 minutes away in Massachusetts where houses are cheaper and taxes are lower.

Our community cannot pay them enough to live here so we decided not to impose residency requirements. For senior police and firemen, they do have to be able to get to the station within 30 minutes in case of an emergency.

[mwooldri]

20. How much does it cost to provide housing?

I think part of the problem is there is a lack of social housing in the high-priced parts of the country, so police officers, nurses, and teachers have to commute.

However police officers like to live together, and it's not a problem in the USA. 50% of police officers in the London Metropolitan Police live outside of greater London. They prefer to live in the villages in surrounding counties. There's cases where these commuter-police get scared of the part of London they serve (their patch). At least local authorities recognize this, and council housing authorities and other social housing organizations have policies in place where police officers, teachers, nurses and other people who are key workers get priority on the housing waiting lists. Housing allowances are part of police pay.

This can work anywhere but it requires effort on the part of the community and elected officials to enable (and require) key workers to live locally.

[hack89]

21. Much more than we can afford

We are a semi-rural town with lots of farms and open space. We do not have the infrastructure for high density housing - with no sewer system there is a half acre minimum lot size to support a septic system. 80 percent of the housing stock is single family homes.

[leveymg]

7. Lessons learned: obey or we'll break your bones; resist and we'll kill you

whether or not you present a real threat to us. Those are the "best practices" taught in Israel to American police. The other classroom for police procedures was Iraq. Iran next.

[KoKo]

10. K&R....U.S. Police Military Training done in Israel...

It's an issue that has come up with Police Departments all over the USA. But, every time it comes up it goes nowhere. Glad to see this clear case of it Baltimore being reported.

[odd_duck]

11. This explains why...

"our" police are behaving like IDF thugs.

[AuntPatsy]

12. Not surprised

[Fred Sanders]

13. The training in Israel part is strange...why? Israel is an occupying force...is that a good civilian police model?

[KoKo]

15. Here...JINSA/LEEP Program:

Uploaded on Jun 2, 2008

JINSA's Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) program is designed to establish cooperation between American and Israeli law enforcement personnel and to give the American law enforcement community access to the hard "lessons learned" by the Israelis in the interdiction of and response to all forms of terrorism.

[Fred Sanders]

19. It would be a start to immediately ban all police exchanges with a nation equating protestors with terrorists.

Begin with Israel, move on to Saudi, Egypt, Quatar, Bahrain, etc.

[jwirr]

14. All those fines that the city has paid for police actions against the people have absolutely no

impact on a police force that does not live in and pay city taxes. This is one of the laws that have to change.

[KoKo]

16. Police In #Ferguson Used Training From The Israeli Government

Police In #Ferguson Used Training From The Israeli Government

{snips}

“The Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA), a neoconservative think tank that claims to have hosted some 9,500 law enforcement officials in its Law Enforcement Exchange Program (LEEP) since 2004.

“LEEP ‘takes delegations of senior law enforcement executives to Israel to study methods and observe techniques used in preventing and reacting to acts of terrorism’ and ‘sponsors conferences within the United States, bringing Israeli experts before much larger groups of law enforcement leaders,’ according to JINSA’s brochure.

“Former St. Louis Police Department police chief Joseph Mokwa is listed as havingtraveled to Israel as part of a LEEP conference in February 2008.”


More ...

http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/08/19/police-in-ferguson-used-training-from-the-israeli-government-video/

[mountain grammy]

17. K & R for an article with TRUTH

especially this:

Gerald Horne, a professor of history and African American Studies at the University of Houston, sees the legacy of slavery as an underlying factor in the policing of majority black cities like Baltimore. “The origins of the urban police department lies precisely in slavery,” Horne remarked in a recent interview with The Real News founder Paul Jay. “That is to say, slave patrols that were designated to interrogate, to investigate Africans who were out and about without any kind of investigation. You fast forward to 2015 and you still see more than remnants of that particular system.” “ won’t let us go nowhere,” one young Gilmore Homes resident complained to The Real News, “They’ll tell us, ‘Move, we gotta go here, you gotta move off there.’ We ain’t doing nothing!” When Paul Jay relocated The Real News operations to Baltimore in 2013 and initiated a series of roundtable discussions with local cops, he learned about the hostile racial attitudes white officers were importing into the city. “I’ve talked to some black cops in Baltimore and one of them told me that in the locker room,” Jay said, “and when they’re getting ready to go on their shift, some of the white cops joke…’Time to go back to work in the zoo.’”

[alcibiades_mystery]

22. People wil invent a million reasons to judge such a sensible proposal impossible

All those million reasons are the same: White privilege, white privilege, white privilege.

And fear of a black planet.

[libdem4life]

23. I couldn't stop thinking of Palestinians...and sure enough, I forgot about this.

Just when you think it's safe to not be outraged, here comes another. We need to know this, however. Stimulus/Response ... honed in detail by Authority.

[WillyT]

24. Huge K & R !!! - Thank You !!!

[KoKo]

25. ...1