Baltimore

[YankeeFan]

For minor drug crimes, ticket them and move on.

For any drug crime?

Does it depend on how much drugs they have? Priors? If it's a parole violation?

What does that do to crime in these neighborhoods?

It's real easy to say that when we don't live in these neighborhoods. Who here would want drug dealing going on in front of your home?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

When I hear folks like Obama and Clinton tell us about all the problems in places like Baltimore, it almost makes you wish they had help prominent, public offices, where they might be able to influence public policy.

They do have influence. However, there's a certain segment of the government who says that it's every man for himself, then gets upset when the people who have the least take that idea to the extreme.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

For any drug crime?

Does it depend on how much drugs they have? Priors? If it's a parole violation?

What does that do to crime in these neighborhoods?

It's real easy to say that when we don't live in these neighborhoods. Who here would want drug dealing going on in front of your home?

No, not any drug crime. But you shouldn't go to jail for possessing a marijuana cigarette.

 

[YankeeFan]

They do have influence. However, there's a certain segment of the government who says that it's every man for himself, then gets upset when the people who have the least take that idea to the extreme.

We haven't "invested" government money in these communities? Really?

Drugs, gangs, and crime is why there's no/little private investment. So, if you don't want the police to deal with those issues, who will?

 

[YankeeFan]

No, not any drug crime. But you shouldn't go to jail for possessing a marijuana cigarette.

Now you're being silly. What about selling drugs?

And, wouldn't you call the cops if someone was smoking a joint in front of your home? Why should anyone have to deal with that?

 

[Baron Scicluna]

More than

We haven't "invested" government money in these communities? Really?

Drugs, gangs, and crime is why there's no/little private investment. So, if you don't want the police to deal with those issues, who will?

According to this, 27.6 percent of those jailed are due to marijuana.

Just How Much The War On Drugs Impacts Our Overcrowded Prisons, In One Chart

Even taking away a percentage for those such as drugged driving, imagine taking the money used to arrest, for the justice system and to incarcerate them and use that for other things that might be more useful.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

Now you're being silly. What about selling drugs?

And, wouldn't you call the cops if someone was smoking a joint in front of your home? Why should anyone have to deal with that?

If they're doing nothing other than smoking a joint? None of my business. Just like if they're doing nothing other than smoking a tobacco cigarette.

 

[doctorquant]

Your face is a feckless thug.

What the heck?

 

[SnarkShark]

Now you're being silly. What about selling drugs?

And, wouldn't you call the cops if someone was smoking a joint in front of your home? Why should anyone have to deal with that?

Yeah. I pretty regularly smell weed wafting into my place. I do not call the police.

 

[YankeeFan]

If we're talking about smelling it in the building, that's one thing.

But, folks selling and/or smoking in front of your building should not be accepted.

You wouldn't be able to do it in front of the mayor's house, and you shouldn't be able to do it in front of a building in a poor urban neighborhood.

 

[YankeeFan]

Professional demonstrators clashing with cops in NYC.

 

[SnarkShark]

If we're talking about smelling it in the building, that's one thing.

But, folks selling and/or smoking in front of your building should not be accepted.

You wouldn't be able to do it in front of the mayor's house, and you shouldn't be able to do it in front of a building in a poor urban neighborhood.

Selling? Yes. Smoking a joint on the sidewalk in front of my house? No.

Maybe you live in a different type of neighborhood than I do.