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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 1643075" data-attributes="member: 12952"><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Police having trouble policing West Baltimore</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Police are struggling to stop violence in West Baltimore, where officers have been routinely surrounded by dozens of people, video cameras and hostility while doing basic police work since the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Wednesday.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>"Officers tell me and their supervisors, any time they pull up to respond to a call, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them," Batts said. "We have to send in multiple units just to do basic police work, which says we have to work on community engagement."</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>At least 19 people were shot Tuesday and Wednesday, pushing the city's nonfatal shootings more than 70 percent above the count at the same point last year. Baltimore's 98 homicides this year are 42 percent higher than the same time last year.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>In the Western District — an area of three square miles — 22 people have been killed this year, compared with 21 all of last year. Nonfatal shootings in West Baltimore are up 175 percent, according to the latest police data.</strong></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 22px"></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 1643075, member: 12952"] [SIZE=6][B]Police having trouble policing West Baltimore[/B] [B]Police are struggling to stop violence in West Baltimore, where officers have been routinely surrounded by dozens of people, video cameras and hostility while doing basic police work since the death of Freddie Gray, Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts said Wednesday.[/B] [B][/B] [B]"Officers tell me and their supervisors, any time they pull up to respond to a call, they have 30 to 50 people surrounding them," Batts said. "We have to send in multiple units just to do basic police work, which says we have to work on community engagement."[/B] [B][/B] [B]At least 19 people were shot Tuesday and Wednesday, pushing the city's nonfatal shootings more than 70 percent above the count at the same point last year. Baltimore's 98 homicides this year are 42 percent higher than the same time last year.[/B] [B][/B] [B]In the Western District — an area of three square miles — 22 people have been killed this year, compared with 21 all of last year. Nonfatal shootings in West Baltimore are up 175 percent, according to the latest police data.[/B] [B][/B] [B][/B][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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