https://www.the-american-interest.com/2009/09/01/angels-in-blue/
The American Interest
A Baltimore police vet extols the virtues of foot patrol.
Baltimore’s population decline seems to have finally leveled off, sticking at around 630,000, down from almost 950,000 in 1950. Crime has leveled off, too, notwithstanding the fact that the city is on its sixth police commissioner since 1999. There were 234 homicides in 2008, the lowest number in decades and a big drop from 2007. Three police officers have been killed over the past six years; three too many, but better than the seven killed between 2000 and 2002.
Baltimore has long been a tough place for police, as the cunning verisimilitude of HBO’s five-season television series