TheAltWorld Mass Shooting in Baltimore: Why the Cops Can’t Solve Community Violence
- Rania Khalek
- Monday 10 Jul 23
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A tragic mass shooting at a Baltimore block party killed two and injured 28 people last weekend. The incident is being used by some to demand increased policing.
Lawrence Grandpre, the Director of Research at the Baltimore think tank, Leaders of a Beautiful Struggle, discusses the underlying causes of community violence in Baltimore and whether “Law and Order” politics are a solution.
Rania Khalek
Rania Khalek is an award-winning Lebanese-American journalist and host of Dispatches on Breakthrough News, where she investigates the global consequences of imperialism, war, and systemic oppression. With over a decade of frontline reporting from conflict zones and marginalized communities, her work has been featured in The Nation, The Intercept, Al Jazeera, FAIR, and The Electronic Intifada, where she served on the editorial board.
James p Dooley, sr.
The best thing to do is bring back. Stop And
search, get The guns out of Criminals hands. Put the young kids to work paper route. There are all sorts of jobs they can do or Put them in sports.
Keep them busy.