Some advice for Sanders supporters

[JonLP24]

102. He seems to be saying the things to appeal to those "Warren supporters"

who are really Hillary Clinton's only threat from walking away with the party nomination so its the only hope he has but I don't know where he stands on everything, just the timing of what he's saying such as the people need a President "they can trust" but the only one he seems to be recommending is himself. Same interview as when he said the Presidency shouldn't be a crown that is passed around between two families.

He had an ally on city council & when he announced his run O'Malley backed him initially until he decided to run for mayor, it could be incidental but he went from a long shot & I don't know the behind the scenes of that move but with the city council ally running against the incumbent helped him because they "split the black vote" (not my words & don't know if that was why O'Malley ran though it is odd he backed him, I hope he didn't encourage him.

Aside from that he pushed zero tolerance policing & accelerated it during his Governor campaign locking up 100,000 in a year of a city the size of 600,000.

From David Simon he is very experienced reporter on the Baltimore Police Department

To quote him: "In my city, Baltimore, we had a mayor, Martin O'Malley, who decided he was going to escalate the drug war. Zero tolerance was his mantra, and he put it out there: "Get everybody off the corners. Clear the corners." He was running for governor, so, for political reasons, he was basically trying to clear the street a year in advance of the election. We were filming The Wire in Baltimore at the time. And it got to the point that my African-American crew members and actors couldn't get back to their hotel without getting locked up, because they were driving while black. It was just presumed they were out there to cop drugs. So every now and then I'd have to go down and bail out my assistant director or one of my actors. Now, that was what was happening to people who were somewhat notable and had something to say to the cop. Can you imagine how many regular Baltimoreans went down to the city jail charged with nothing?" http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/mar/30/david-simon-americas-war-on-drugs

BALTIMORE —Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday she will not combat crime by returning to the days of so-called mass arrests of minor offenses.

In an opinion-editorial piece published Wednesday in The Baltimore Sun, Gov. Martin O'Malley stepped up his campaign to get the city to go back to what he did when he was mayor: have a policing policy that led to more than 100,000 arrests per year -- many for minor offenses.

The mayor and governor are widely seen as friends, but they are not on the same page on this issue and the continuing debate, the mayor said, is causing many communities to worry.

"Homicides are going up for the second year in a row, and shootings are up year to date. Why? I believe it has to do with the fact that enforcement levels have fallen to a 13-year low," the governor wrote.

O'Malley called critics of his policy "ideologues on the left." . . .

"Honest minds can differ, but this honest mind is also fact-dependent, and the data show that more arrests didn't lead to a safer city," Rawlings-Blake countered Wednesday.

The mayor's office produced a chart showing a steady decline in violent crime since 2006 -- the year O'Malley left City Hall -- and arrests reached their peak. It was to counter a chart produced by the governor to argue otherwise.

More: http://www.wbaltv.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/mayor-vows-not-to-return-to-days-of-mass-arrests-in-baltimore/22118078

He wants to appear as if he is tough on crime just for appearances sake but in any case the ACLU filed suit & the courts ruled the policy violated civil liberties


Last year, The Baltimore Sun reported that taxpayers had paid $5.7 million since 2011 in judgments or settlements in 102 lawsuits alleging police misconduct. A. Dwight Pettit, a lawyer who specializes in police misconduct and represents Tyrone West’s family in a wrongful-death suit against the city, said he had “20 open cases right now,” and was flooded with requests for representation.

Mr. Gray was not the first black man in Baltimore to emerge from a police van with a spinal cord injury. Jeffrey Alston, who became paralyzed from the neck down after a van ride, settled for $6 million in 2004. The following year, Dondi Johnson, also paralyzed after a van ride, won a jury award of $7.4 million, though it was reduced on appeal.

Kerry D. Staton, the lawyer who handled both cases, said Mr. Johnson, like Mr. Gray, had not been belted in. Mr. Staton said officers had intentionally given Mr. Johnson what is known as a “rough ride, where he was thrown across the vehicle into the opposite wall and broke his neck.”

Civil rights advocates and some elected officials here trace the tensions to “zero-tolerance policing,” a crime-fighting strategy championed by Martin O’Malley, the former governor and a potential Democratic candidate for president, when he was the mayor of Baltimore from 1999 to 2007. Aides of Mr. O’Malley note that on his watch, the number of annual homicides dropped below 300 per year for the first time in more than a decade, and that violent crime in Baltimore dropped by 41 percent. Steve Kearney, a top aide to Mr. O’Malley when he was the mayor, described the policies as “appropriate for the time.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/25/us/baltimores-broken-relationship-with-police.html?_r=0

I haven't heard a whole lot about Kucinich background wise, I heard West Cleveland votes him in large numbers. Made an unpopular move when it came to Muni Light, stood up to the mob had a contract out on him but I think it cost him his re-election in the 70s but the move ended up saving the city a fortune when it comes locally. I don't know why he would go to Fox, it was the Republicans that screwed him by drawing him into Marcy Kaptur's district.