Cops partner with military
No, it doesn't appear that Baltimore's police commissioner is sending the military to take over city streets. But he does want to recruit veterans of the armed services. An announcement is planned for later today.
Here's the police statement:
Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld and Major General Adolph McQueen, (U.S. Army Military Police Command) will sign a formal memorandum of understanding between the Baltimore Police Department and the United States Department of Defense, Department of the Army to establish an exclusive recruitment and employment relationship for members of the US Army and US Army reserve. The Baltimore Police Department is the first jurisdiction in the state of Maryland to formally partner with the Department of Defense.
Comments
There is much more involved here than just a mutual aid recruitment effort. The defense department dosen't do anything aboveboard and has little or no interest in anything more than gaining a semi-legal mentod of having trained operatives in position to operate domestically, which they can not do legally .
Posted by: dontbelieve | July 23, 2009 4:24 PM
The training of the police and soldier are diametrically opposed- a policeman is a community servant who enforces the law and keeps the peace... A soldier is trained to kill and follow orders.. the soldier mentality causes the police to be thugs and looked down upon by the community.. but in reality, the ineffectivness of baltimore city police, with a combination of corruption and their hands tied by city hall and community activist store-front "ministers" , and the free pass that given to swaths of the city with its thugs thinking they are Superfly by its apathetic inhabitants have caused a atmosphere of lawlessness and lack of safety. Something has to be done, and it is sad to see we have called on the army to bail us out..
Posted by: cvp | July 24, 2009 11:22 AM