Member-only story
Dear Baltimore Police, Please Stop Endorsing Systemic Brutality Against Black Youths
Let’s face it, Baltimore City doesn’t have the grandest of reputations, thanks to the heightened climate of violence that has been assigned as the official badge of dishonor through the outlets of pop culture in TV shows like The Wire, documentaries like Baltimore Rising, that details the season of civil unrest, that plagued the historically traumatized city, after the tragic murder of Freddie Gray while he was in the custody of rogue cops.
There’s no escape from the brewed turmoil that boasts a tight grip on a community that’s paying the ultimate price for being systemically embroiled in a never-ending hatefest, that keeps the ongoing hostility between police officers and the Black folks they have sworn never to protect — unrelentingly activated.
It’s quite clear that the code of ethics of law enforcement across the country, that centers around deadliness erupting, when patrolling mostly Black and Brown neighborhoods, habitually turns into nefarious activity of hunting down expendable prey for the benefit of fulfilling the problematic quota system.
This criminalized method of policing vulnerable targets is particularly aggressive in major cities that contain meaty incentives that are bullishly pursued in the name of societal oppression.
