“squeegee kids.”

[GURPS]

As a reminder, the “squeegee kids” who he also refers to as “squeegee workers” are frequently neither. Many of them are 18 or over. And what they are doing is not “work” nor is it a “job.” He admits as much when he explains why he won’t enforce the law. He explicitly referred to them as “panhandlers” and said that their activities are protected speech under the First Amendment. (I know. I don’t think this guy has ever read the Constitution.)

Panhandling is an annoyance. What’s going on far too often on those corners is far more than that. It’s extortion and it frequently turns violent. Just last month one of these “workers” shot a motorist dead. Other incidents of violence are reported on a regular basis.

If the city wants to find productive jobs for these extortionists, fine. Do it elsewhere. Set up some sort of municipal jobs program where they can show up at the morning and be transported to the city’s parks and run-down areas and clean them up. Give them a paycheck and benefits if you can find the money. If that keeps them off the corners and away from the temptation to join the gangs, that would be fantastic. I would applaud the Mayor for such a solution.

But what’s being done here is just a fig leaf. The Mayor is afraid to look like he’s cracking down on these extortionists because most of them are minorities. And they are still engaging in crimes right under the noses of the authorities with the blessings of the city.

Baltimore deploys armed guards near "squeegee kids"

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[glhs837]

Just cant figure crap out, can they?

 

[stgislander]

Cars in Baltimore are covered with hazardous waste!!! Are you listening??? The EPA should tax businesses for their pollutants, the car's owners should have a surcharge on their registration plates to support this program. Those surplus masks, and test kits Large Larry bought from Korea can be used to randomly check the "workers" for toxics too!

Was it that same cancer-causing oil Slow Joe said covered his family car as a kid in Wilmington?

 

[Hijinx]

Squeegie kids are budding criminals.

 

[GURPS]

That situation is compounded in Baltimore by the Mayor and the City Council who have established what is known as the Mayor’s Squeegee Collaborative. The office has yet to propose a single solution to this ongoing system of extortion, though they keep promising to do so soon. The net result is that there are police hanging around at some (though not nearly all) of the corners where this is taking place but all they do is stand and watch unless somebody draws a gun. (Which has happened on multiple occasions.) So the judge who is overseeing the system fell victim to the same people he was helping to shield by reining in the police.

This entire squeegee scam is nothing but an organized, junior varsity criminal syndicate that’s being conducted out in plain sight. These extortionists are not “workers” because nobody requested their services. The “work” they do is unsupervised and forced on motorists through threats and intimidation. And Baltimore allows this to happen on a daily basis and then acts shocked when someone winds up being injured or sent to the hospital.

We should also keep in mind the fact that every officer who is assigned to “squeegee worker” supervision duty is one more officer that is not out on the streets dealing with the gangs. Baltimore is once again on track to set another record for the most homicides recorded in the city in a single year. (It’s a record they’ve been breaking for many years in a row now.) And, of course, the drug epidemic is still taking even more lives as fentanyl floods the streets.

Baltimore squeegee "workers" go after federal judge

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[DaSDGuy]

Simple solution for me is I won't go to Baltimore. Of course that means I won't spend any money in Baltimore either. I know I am only one so they won't miss only one. But if 10,000 of us "only one's" stay away from Baltimore they might notice.

 

[herb749]

That situation is compounded in Baltimore by the Mayor and the City Council who have established what is known as the Mayor’s Squeegee Collaborative. The office has yet to propose a single solution to this ongoing system of extortion, though they keep promising to do so soon. The net result is that there are police hanging around at some (though not nearly all) of the corners where this is taking place but all they do is stand and watch unless somebody draws a gun. (Which has happened on multiple occasions.) So the judge who is overseeing the system fell victim to the same people he was helping to shield by reining in the police.

This entire squeegee scam is nothing but an organized, junior varsity criminal syndicate that’s being conducted out in plain sight. These extortionists are not “workers” because nobody requested their services. The “work” they do is unsupervised and forced on motorists through threats and intimidation. And Baltimore allows this to happen on a daily basis and then acts shocked when someone winds up being injured or sent to the hospital.

We should also keep in mind the fact that every officer who is assigned to “squeegee worker” supervision duty is one more officer that is not out on the streets dealing with the gangs. Baltimore is once again on track to set another record for the most homicides recorded in the city in a single year. (It’s a record they’ve been breaking for many years in a row now.) And, of course, the drug epidemic is still taking even more lives as fentanyl floods the streets.

Baltimore squeegee "workers" go after federal judge

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They can't create jobs for them unless they are tax free which is what they like right now.