Trump Has Defunded Baltimore Program Reducing Crime

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The Deeper Crime Problem That the National Guard Can’t Solve

Proven solutions have been rejected by the administration in favor of no-tolerance policies and flashy shows of force.

www.theatlantic.com

The program that eventually got Fowlkes to see himself differently—persuading him to leave his street corner and pursue job training after years of cycling in and out of jail—was among several community-violence-intervention initiatives that Donald Trump’s administration abruptly defunded earlier this year. Trump, who has threatened to send federal troops into what he calls the “Crime Drenched City of Baltimore,” is instead relying on a crime-prevention strategy that treats people like Fowlkes, city leaders and criminal-justice experts told me, as irredeemable.​

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Makes sense. How else can he pose as the one true savior? He must be the only one who can solve the problem. SMH.