Papa Was a Rolling Stone

摘要

IN JUNE, The Baltimore Sun had a front-page article authored or contributed to by five of the newspaper's top reporters on the "record violence" and the fact that the city is in "crisis." The well-written—but incorrectly focused—account looked at the city's "top law enforcement officers" (the mayor, police commissioner, and states attorney), and how they have been working to alleviate the violence. The lengthy examination looked at the problems of out-of-control crime and the police, highlighting the latter's difficulties in combating crime, including a confusing and ambiguous Department of Justice consent decree. The account indicated that the top political leaders, but not other political principals, were inexplicably confident that the city would "turn the corner" and that the violence will lessen significantly.