Mushmouth
07-07-2017, 06:15 AM
With the number of homicides in Baltimore rising at a staggering rate, Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday he will meet with Mayor Catherine Pugh to discuss how the state could help.
The governor blamed the heroin trade and lax gun-crime sentencing for driving violence that has killed 180 people in the city this year. The number dead through June was the most since 1992, when 100,000 more people lived in Baltimore.
Hogan, a Republican, ruled out sending in the National Guard or having Maryland State Police patrol city streets. He said the state has already provided the city with $64 million since 2015 to aid crime fighting and designated $50 million more to address the opioid epidemic.
"We've invested a tremendous amount of money there, more than any other place in the state," Hogan said of Baltimore during a brief interview. "It hasn't really worked."
"We're open to any kind of possible solutions that anyone wants to talk about," he said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/politics/bs-md-hogan-baltimore-violence-20170706-story.html
The governor blamed the heroin trade and lax gun-crime sentencing for driving violence that has killed 180 people in the city this year. The number dead through June was the most since 1992, when 100,000 more people lived in Baltimore.
Hogan, a Republican, ruled out sending in the National Guard or having Maryland State Police patrol city streets. He said the state has already provided the city with $64 million since 2015 to aid crime fighting and designated $50 million more to address the opioid epidemic.
"We've invested a tremendous amount of money there, more than any other place in the state," Hogan said of Baltimore during a brief interview. "It hasn't really worked."
"We're open to any kind of possible solutions that anyone wants to talk about," he said.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/politics/bs-md-hogan-baltimore-violence-20170706-story.html