Baltimore: "Safe Streets Worker" shot and killed in the street

Baltimore -- When you put a clueless incompetent in charge of anything and the best they can do is to call to defund the police, decriminalize crime, and promote no bail for violent criminals, the results are as  predictable as Joe Biden alluding to Russia they can go into Ukraine a little and we'll just jaw about it to our allies. Of course, the clueless supporters of these incompetents believe them because they're clueless too. These are the same clueless individuals who believe that all we have to do to reduce shootings is to make guns illegal, and people who would normally shoot other people, wouldn't do that because it's against the law.

In Baltimore, there was a push for "community safety" workers who would go unarmed, injecting themselves into violent situations as "violence interrupters" and this was meant to reduce the number of lethal use of force responses by police officers.  This insanity was called the “Safe Streets Program” and it got a lot of clueless municipal support.

The program's goal is to send former gang members into areas controlled by other gang members to talk to them and persuade them to put their gangsta grips down and use their words instead of their chromes to resolve conflicts such as: who gets to be the cooker in what hood; who gets to rip off which establishment without the other gang getting all frothy.

Sadly, this doesn't always work out as planned.

Early this week a Baltimore’s Safe Streets workers was shot to death along with several other people on the East side of Charm City. (H/T Baltimore Sun)

A quadruple shooting in East Baltimore on Wednesday night left three people dead, including a Safe Streets worker, and one person injured, police said. Three others were injured in separate shootings in West and South Baltimore.

At about 7:25 p.m., Eastern District patrol officers responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the 2400 block of E. Monument St. Once there, officers located four men suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.

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A 28-year-old man was pronounced dead on the scene. Medics transported three other victims to area hospitals, where a 24-year-old man and another man were also pronounced dead.

Like other major cities in the US, Baltimore has more casualties this year than most other years prior. The city is trying everything it can and one must feel for the citizens there and in cities like New York, Chicago, Seattle and others mostly led by Democrats.

The program in Baltimore has seen a modicum of crime reduction, but clearly, it is not the answer. And the city's efforts at prosecuting more cops than gang members is not the answer by a long shot. When the cops are deemed impotent to fight crime, criminals react in the best way they know how.

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