Del. Pat McDonough continues to press his complaints about what he has called "" in Baltimore by calling on Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to debate him on television.
The Middle River Republican is also accusing Rawlings-Blake of forcing out Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld.
earlier this month.
In a statement released late Tuesday night, McDonough called on the mayor to debate him on television.
He also released details of what he said was part of a bill he plans to introduce in Annapolis next year.
"I acknowledge that I do not have all the answers," McDonough wrote in the statement. "At least I am making an honest effort to be part of the solution. The youth crime problem in Baltimore City and the state must no longer be ignored. I believe in a carrot and stick approach."
Neither McDonough nor a spokesman for Rawlings-Blake were immediately available for comment.
The delegate, in his press release, said he was preparing a bill that would create a "Maryland Youth Advocacy Fund" financed by special tax-deductible contributions.
The money would go toward job creations, youth leadership and mentoring programs, scholarships, police youth clubs and other programs.
The "stick," according to McDonough's press release, would include aggressive enforcement of a city curfew law and "zero tolerance, arrest, and penalty including mandated community service for youth crime."
Those after school programs don't work 24 hours a day. So if you need to work 80 some odd hours a week to make ends meet and the 5 hours a day you spend on the public bus to get around to your jobs keeps you away from home then you can't be there with your kid all the time. He job doesn't have health care but her kid gets the state child health care. However she has to take time off work to go to the doctor and her job at walmart and toco bell don't give her any paid leave because they will only hire her 29 hours a week each so neither has to pay her full time benefits. It's all she can get on the bus line so that's what she takes. DSS doesn't take kids because the state says any child over 8 years of age can legally stay home alone and DSS knows if they started taking all those kids they would have no where to put them because they depend on foster parents and there are not enough of those. DSS tries to offer support to the kids in this situation but the moms are afraid the kids will be taken so they don't avail themselves. They don't trust and from this the children learn also not to trust or ask for help. So they don't trust teachers etc. Plus their teachers have the same bias you do. They weren't raised in poverty. They are just doing their time in the poor school until loan forgiveness and getting out.
Go away!
I do get everything you are saying. Believe it or not I was raised Republican so I used to think the way you do. People have to learn all that. The topic here is not the crime. It's why it has to be hammered what race the people were who did it. At least that's what I'm talking about. We can all agree the crime has to stop and people need to be held accountable whoever they are and I wish kids could just be taken from some of their parents but that's never going to happen. I'm not a Lay-Z-Boy lawyer. I was one of those kids. Now I live a middle class life just like you do. But I didn't do it by myself. Without help I would have had no choices at all.
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I'll take that drink only on the promise that you keep a more open mind.
However that's not the vast majority of black people. Look closely at those numbers in that link. Only 9% of whites are in poverty compared to 27% of black people. Racism is when you look at the behavior of that 27% and use it to define the whole race. So if a group of poor people are doing something that gets on video it doesn't matter what it is they are doing they are going to be mostly black people doing it because of the make up of the people in poverty not because of the make up the black race. It doesn't make it "black behavior". Does any of that make sense?
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What have I achieved let’s see I’m working in a fulfilling career in public safety putting my life on the line daily, I have donated my time to Rec Councils for the past 19 years. I volunteered in the past for different organizations. Really can’t say I’m lazy, when I wasn’t making the money I do now I worked upwards to 80 hours a week to provide for my family so they could have the best of everything. Now is that good enough for you? Not that I have to prove anything to you......
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11:42 am on Friday, June 15, 2012 I bet if you look into the backgrounds of the majority of the black teen "criminals" they are not living hand to mouth. They feel they are "entitled" to what normal people work for. Instead of finding a job and working their way up to middle class, they would rather steal to get it NOW. Look at the ATF raid in Hampden on Thursday, 06/15/20112. All the persons involved were black! One of the persons didn't think nothing of trying to run down 2 police officers. I am sick and tired of watching the 11PM news and seeing one black person after another involved in crime. STOP trying to make excuses for criminals!!! You do the crime, you do the time. END of story.