Here we go again: The short history and long tail of Baltimore’s “zero tolerance” policing. - The Real News Network

This is the second in a series of stories from The Real News examining the past three decades of police and crime data in Baltimore City. Since 1990, Baltimore has been in an extended period of elevated murder rates, even as violence declined in other major cities. As The Real News reported in the first part of this series: In years when police have solved a large number of homicides, murders have still been high, and murder remains high amid plummeting clearance rates. Similarly, when police made over 100,000 arrests per year violence was high, and violence remains high even as arrest numbers hover around 20,000 per year.

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