Congressman Cummings represents half of Baltimore, Maryland. If he is criticizing ICE in that city, there may be a good reason for it. 2018 revealed deep seated problems in law enforcement in Baltimore. Cleaning it up has been quite a task.
December 20, 2019
By Jessica Anderson
...Right at the top of the department’s struggles (click here) were the racketeering convictions of eight members of its once-elite Gun Trace Task Force. Two sergeants and eight detectives robbed citizens under protection of their badges and claimed massive amounts of overtime for hours they did not work. In November, a ninth officer, former Baltimore and Philadelphia cop Eric Snell, pleaded guilty to charges that he conspired to sell drugs with the GTTF members.
The scandal only reinforced the community’s deep distrust of the Police Department at a time when widespread policing reforms were under way. A consent decree reached between the city and the U.S. Justice Department mandates a wide range of reforms, including limits on when and how officers engage individuals suspected of criminal activity, more training for police on de-escalation tactics and interactions with youths, those with mental illnesses, and protesters, and enhanced civilian oversight and transparency of the department....
Perhaps everyone will remember the exposure of the underbelly of the corruption in Baltimore with the death of Freddy Gray in 2017. Then when charges were brought against the officers involved it was all dismissed by the judge at the earliest phase of indictments. That is the disgusting truth of Baltimore and it isn't the crime that is the problem, it is the depth of the corruption that was the problem.
It took national recognition of the death of Freddy Gray in order to bring a focus to the corruption in Baltimore.
The name calling by the coward in the Oval Office is just more racism. Then people wonder why others don't trust the law.
