Jermaine Schofield was gunned down in Baltimore on Sunday, one of three murder victims in the city that day. Today, Schofield's family held a vigil for him.
If you want to know where America is headed under a progressive, race-huckstering, anti-police agenda, you don't have to look far.During the vigil, a gunman fired at attendees. Five were hit. Thankfully, all are expected to survive.
These events are not an aberration. Baltimore has descended into chaos since, in the aftermath of Freddy Gray's death, the city failed to back its police force.
Murders surged a staggering 63 percent in 2015, with 344 people killed. This year hasn't been quite as bad so far, but the murder rate remains abnormally high.
Meanwhile, Baltimore's police force is shrinking dramatically. According to Blake Neff of the Daily Caller, at the beginning of 2015, Baltimore had 2,805 police officers. By the end of the year, the force was down to 2,634 officers, a drop of 6.1 percent. In June of this year, there were only 2,445 officers in the force, a decline of 6.8 percent since January.
The shrinkage in the size of the police force seems clearly to be related to the events that followed Freddy Gray's death -- the riots during which Baltimore's mayor, having talked about making space for "those who wish to destroy", had the police stand down; the prosecution of six officers on charges that appear to be without merit; the wave of anti-police sentiment that politicians like prosecutor Marilyn Mosby have fueled and legitimized.
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