Democratic leadership in imploding Baltimore City has funneled city and state dollars into a super-progressive anti-violence program called “Safe Streets,” which pushes ‘non-policing’ techniques to deter violent crime. Mayor Brandon Scott has championed Safe Streets, yet many residents have complained the program is a sham.
In some terrible optics for the Democratic mayor, the FBI raided a Safe Streets location in northeast Baltimore on Thursday. Local media WBALTV said what the FBI was looking for during the raid remains unclear.
A spokeswoman for the FBI Baltimore Field Office told WBALTV that agents conducted “court-authorized law enforcement activity” at the Safe Streets office in Belair-Edison in northeast Baltimore.
Non-profit healthcare corporation LifeBridge Health, who manages the site, told the media outlet:
“The FBI this morning enacted a search warrant at the Belair Safe Streets site managed by LifeBridge Health. Two of our staff have indicated that federal agents showed up at their residences. We have no other information at this time. We are treating this incident seriously and complying with requests from authorities.”
The Belair-Edison location is one of ten Safe Streets locations across the metro area where so-called “violence interrupters” are stationed and are deployed into neighborhoods (instead of police) to prevent violence from exploding.
“They are supposed to stop people in the community from fighting and with the drug situation in the community. I don’t know. This is definitely amazing today. I heard it all,” said A.J. Gary, a Belair-Edison resident.
Resident Gay continued, “It doesn’t make any sense to me. What’s the use of having the program if y’all doing the same thing people in the streets are doing, but y’all supposed to be helping us?”
Perhaps a report from Fox Baltimore sheds more light on what precisely the FBI was looking for at the Belair-Edison location:
“The FBI is not releasing details, but sources tell FOX45 News that federal agents are looking into possible gang affiliation.”
You can’t fix stupid
Not even with duct tape!