Baltimore community organizations are balking at Gov. Wes Moore’s plan to send a surge of Maryland State Police and Maryland Transportation Authority Police into the city.
The concern is that increased policing will breed terror in the community, add a feeling of draconian oversight, open the door for a lack of transparency, endanger immigrants and cause increased arrests without actually lowering crime.
“This is a way for him to basically bow down to Trump,” said Kenya Levy, a member of the Maryland Party for Socialism and Liberation. “Bringing more police force into these areas that don’t need it, I don’t think that’s actually going to solve any problems.”…