The population of Baltimore is 622,000, while NYC's is 8.2 million. There have been 212 murders in Baltimore so far in 2015, 208 in NYC.
In another op-ed article, pared and edited by yours truly, Leon Wolf asks: "Why are police brought into hostile interactions with black people so often in the first place?" He answers: "It’s because of the big-government policies and practices of the supposedly liberal Democrats that the Black Lives Matter crowd is petitioning for help. Don’t take my word for it; take the word of President Obama’s Department of Justice, which set forth, in painstaking detail, in its report on the practices of the Ferguson Police Department, all the ways in which pressure to generate additional revenue to pay for expenses led cops to attempt to maximize city revenue by meeting ticket quotas and goals." He cites that Philadelphia, Chicago and NYC are also doing this. Recall that the selling of loose cigarettes led to Eric Garner's death on Staten Island. Was the 25 mph speed limit in NYC instituted to protect citizens or to raise revenue? I'd say the latter.
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