While walking from my office to garage on Baltimore Street in downtown Baltimore, I stopped to offer encouragement to a police officer. His response was that "none of us are saying that we should not do our jobs, but all of us are scared. If we arrest someone and they hurt themselves or get hurt while in a cell, will we be arrested and thrown in jail? We need to be able to feed our families."
City Hall needs to decide whether or not it will support the Baltimore City Police Department ("Baltimore's deadly May," June 1). History tells us that if the answer is no, this will end badly. Badly for Baltimore.
John Guinee