GO FIGURE: Baltimore suffering from a lack of cops

Baltimore's losing cops due to retirements and resignations (and let's not forget, politically-motivated prosecutions).  Now the police union has sounded the alarm to local media, calling it a "crisis" and "dire".

Go figure.  Decent people unwilling to risk their families' lives, and well-being in the risky job of policing neighborhoods that don't seem to want police protection.  Decent people certainly live in these neighborhoods.  Some decent folk simply can't afford to move.  At the same time, these decent people might want the police in their neighborhoods to enforce order, but these same decent people are unable or unwilling to step up and tell the malcontents and the criminals to sit down and shut up.

So crime goes up.  Murders in Baltimore, on a per capita basis, were the second highest ever recorded last year.

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Baltimore City’s Police Union is sounding the alarm because they say the department is in crisis due to the fact that it has too few officers.

According to a new report, there are more than 100 fewer Baltimore City PD officers than last year, with the union saying this poses a safety concern as officers are being overworked.

The police union president calls the situation “dire.”

“You get in a crisis mode like we’re in right now with crime out of control and not enough uniformed officers on the street,” said Lt. Gene Ryan, president of the Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police. “I would say it’s at a crisis point.”

The decent folks in Baltimore should consider a nice 4" revolver or a 12 gauge shotgun.  Either has great persuasiveness when pointed at bullies, thugs and malcontents spouting "Snitches Get Stitches" verbiage.