MD Governor Slams Baltimore's Lack Of Crime Plan: 'Unacceptable'

Maryland’s Chief Executive let loose on its most famous city, decrying its crime and violence, and the seemingly lack of will of the city to improve itself. Republican Governor Larry Hogan has called the Baltimore’s lack of crime plan “unacceptable”, lamenting the frequent need to bring in the state’s National Guard to quell riots in the city.

Fox 45 News reports that the Governor considers crime The Charm City’s number one problem.

“There’s no crime plan there’s no continuity and it’s just simply unacceptable that there’s people being shot and killed on the streets every single day and people are fed up with it,” Governor Hogan said.

He went on to discuss the aggressive funding the city has received to resolve the issue.

“We keep providing funding. We provide backup. We’re assisting them with the processing of warrants which we’re taking over the processing of all the most violent criminal warrants. We’re backing them up. We have 14 State Police helicopters patrolling the skies every single day. We’ve provided funding.”

Data from Baltimore Law Enforcement indicates that there were 2,027 violent crimes in Baltimore in 2019, nearly 350 of which were homicides. This represents the highest year on record since 1993, when the city’s population was nearly 125,000 higher.

Only months before the area’s beloved Congressman Elijah Cummings passed away, he and President Trump engaged in a heated online back-and-forth after the President called the city “disgusting” and “infested with rats.” He went on to say that under Cummings, the city had the worst crime numbers in the nation, a perception which drew harsh criticism from many on the left, as well as moderates.

For his own part, Governor Hogan speculated that he didn’t think the people of Baltimore wanted to see National Guard troops on their streets all the time.