Readers Sound Off on Police Protection

Reader Comments

Nope. Roland park has been crawling with cops after a purse snatching, but an entire bridal party gets mugged in Bolton Hill and there no response.

Of course not. Police protection, like most things, follows the money.

Everyone knows all the crime comes from the bad neighborhoods and everyone who lives in the city knows where those neighborhoods are. It comes from not caring about where you live. If they cared I wouldn't see trash strewn all over Greenmount Ave. Ask yourself, why don't you see trash all over Roland Park? Because most of the people who live there actually CARE about where they live. There's nothing the police like more than to see someone who cares about their own neighborhood. Don't always blame the police, blame the thugs and idiots that take over the neighborhoods.

No, neighborhoods do not receive equal police protection. The police tend to focus on areas where there's a lot of crime. Areas that have little crime, like Roland Park, get minimal police coverage until a high-profile crime occurs, at which time police briefly flood the area to let their presence known. And then things go back to the way they were.

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Jonathan Wilkin How does posting a cop at the seen of a crime after it happens help?

Donald Nichols Wait, you mean in some neighborhoods the police show up when you call 911? What a novel idea.

Lisa O'Reilly And ALL those extra cops around Roland Park took valuable cops from real work- and built up further resentment. They are really pissed at having to sit around knowing that they are not policing what needs to be policed. So why don't Roland Nice People pay for a security service-oh wait, COP for themselves!! Granted they pay their taxes but so do others...

Josh Curry Equal protection? Nope.

Andy Gotwols Think about this.. the people who pay the most get the least. If a serious crime occurs in a section of the city, the reaction is to "shut down" a car and station it right at the scene of where that crime occurs, taking away from the already strained resources that we don't have. What's more is that it doesn't take into account all of the other assignments that the patrol section deals with on a daily basis. The system is unfortunately broken.

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1StateoftheCity H no!Some get high priority while others get no priority.Protection depends on where u live&2 whom u give

BaltoSpectator Feb 09, 9:34am via Twitter for Android Sad but true fact: in some neighborhoods, @BaltimorePolice are more feared & less trusted than the thugs