Baltimore Officer: Morale Among Cops Is ‘in the Sewers’

‘A Baltimore police officer some dozen years on the force said the spike in murders and gun crimes here is the direct result of a coordinate police work slowdown’

MARQUEZ: "And more, where is morale for police officers?"
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "In the sewers. It’s down. It’s the worse of the worse I’ve ever seen in my career."
MARQUEZ (voice-over): "A Baltimore police officer some dozen years on the force said the spike in murders and gun crimes here is the direct result of a coordinate police work slowdown."
(on camera): "Why do you think that there is a great increase in the murder rate, in the number of shootings in this town?"
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: "Officers stopped being proactive."

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