By Cal Thomas May 14, 2015 Attorney General Loretta Lynch has announced a Justice Department investigation to determine whether the Baltimore Police Department’s practices are unconstitutional and violate civil rights; in short, whether or not the police force there is racist. It will come as no surprise if the investigation concludes that it is, because accusing the department of racism diverts attention from the city's real problem: Baltimore, a laboratory for liberal policies, is a failed city that has shortchanged the poor for decades. Baltimore has received over $1.8 billion in stimulus money from the Obama administration, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention. Still, parts of the city remain mired in poverty and despair. There are 16,000 vacant buildings in Baltimore and an unknown number of "vacant" fathers. Between 2000 and 2010, Baltimore lost 5 percent of its population. The liberal solution of raising taxes hasn't worked. Many of those who could escape the city have. "Every single major urban center in America is run by Democrats -- more specifically, liberal progressives, black or white," writes former Congressman Allen West. It is undeniable that it is liberal policies that have failed -- from anti-poverty programs, to dysfunctional schools from which they refuse to let the poor escape because of the political donations they receive from teachers' unions. Yes, Maryland has a history of racist policies, from once denying blacks the vote, to banks red lining minority neighborhoods so people of color could not get mortgages, but many other states share this history. We need to move forward and find a better way, rooting out racist policies wherever they exist. The major problem for the left, however, is that they continue to concentrate on failure and poverty, rather than on success and prosperity. When self-sufficiency is encouraged, you get more of it; when it is ignored or discouraged, you get less. Attacks on "the rich" have done nothing to improve the lives of the poor. If politicians were sincere about helping people escape their bad circumstances, they would flood neighborhoods with people who tell stories about how they escaped similar circumstances by refusing to accept a life of poverty. Inspiration is the starting point for improving lives. If one hears only about racism and injustice, nothing is gained, but if one hears about alternative paths to a productive life, painful history does not have to repeat itself. As the song says, "It's not where you start, it's where you finish." A Johns Hopkins University study by sociologist Karl Alexander found that what "really makes a difference between prison and college, success and failure, sometimes even life and death -- are family and money." (Excerpt) Read more: http://townhall.com/columnists/calt...ot-rooted-in-racist-police-n1998424/page/full The truth is that Progressive Democrats might lose a core constituency if more people became independent, or not as dependent, on government. Then there is the corrupt avarice of those Progressives that drink at the trough to enrich themselves. Many of those leading the NAACP have become millionaires. Then there's people like Waters, Cummings, Conyers, etc that have come to Congress and a few years later are millionaires. Make you go Hmmmm. Where did that money end up to help black people out of poverty?
I still don't get how a Dem run police force that is about half Black from the Chief of Police down can be racist against Blacks. Is the police department deliberately hiring Black-hating Blacks or are they simply teaching those Blacks to hate Blacks after turning them into police officers? Hey leftists, do any of you have the answer?
This may be a stretch but maybe Nancy Pelosi has something to do with all this.She was the former Speaker.Her Father was the Mayor of Baltimore.And then her brother was Mayor.So being democrat and running Baltimore literally ran in her family.I remember a regular at MSNBC made a point of Interviewing Madame Pelosi.Which was considered almost impossible.I can't remember who it was.He was regular on - Morning Joe -. He grew up in Baltimore.Pelosi granted him an Interview totally on her terms.It was brief and not very substantive.I think she insisted it take place in her Old neighborhhod in Baltimore. Pelosi may have a vested interest in making sure her beloved city does not face needed tarnish.Since her Immediate family is largely complicit. Is my take. Is all.
Baltimore's Problems Not Rooted in Racist Police, but rooted in corrupt government and greedy officials, in 43% black police department, in a black female mayor and black state attorney. All these people are guilty in all their troubles and they should better think about themselves, not blame innocent people!
When you don't have to court the voters to win elections, you don't have to actually do anything other than steal as much money as you can. All Democrats all the time as in Chicago and Detroit and eventually all you have left is urban blight.
