Basically what Nicky Whip said is spot on...the police are doing exactly what the handbook tells them to do and that is it, they are not being proactive, where in the past if based on their years of training and experience, if some guys are on the corner they would run up on them and probably arrest some of them. Now they just see people hanging on the corner which is not against the law per se, but unfortunately teh good citizens of west baltimore will suffer because the corner boys and the gangs will make a big grab for the market and bodies will fall.

You can thank the mayor, the police commissioner, the Baltimore state attorney, reverend AL, the justice department, for what is going on, because the cops can either due their 10 hour shift and just go home or they can get involved and possibly look at a 15-30 year prison sentence, the police there and probably in many cities feel they have no backing from the people in government who run the cities. Its sad for the citizens. The mayor and the baltimore state attorney are extremely incompetent by their actions in this matter and should resign and allow the people of Baltimore a chance to get their city back