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TLDR: Mayor’s Christmas Parade through Hampden may be postponed because the City says it doesn’t have enough police officers due to a Ravens game at the same time.

Edit: Mike Ricci, spokesman for the Hogan admin, says on Twitter the state is willing to assist if the City wants. https://twitter.com/riccimike/status/1595442255652855808?s=46&t=8Be5aO9-Xac5rECl0bPNPA

Too many officers in prison?

each event is probably staffed with 2x as many cops as they would ever need.

So, the ravens game is more important than a parade? I’m not exactly pro Xmas, but how about the NFL pay for private security instead of offloading the costs of their very lucrative business onto the city?

Isn't the parade always on a Sunday with a home game half the time? I vaguely recall jumping into bars to catch red zone plays between drinks on the avenue. Not sure why it's an issue this time

"City in Crisis" right there in the URL.

Fuck you Sinclair, and fuck Fox 45.

They pay the city for police.

The parade and game are at the same time every year. Classic BPD shakedown.

Also this parade is fun because it is the least organized thing ever. You can just show up to the staging area in a costume and they will let you be in it.

Yes

Then they can pay private security so that the city has enough police for its needs that aren’t so obviously corrupt businesses

Really unsure why our $500 million police budget can't cover security for two events that have been going on annually for decades and are well planned in advance then...

Well. It is expensive to block traffic and also make everyone feel less safe by being present I guess.

Probably, it draws 3x higher attendance without even factoring in local TV viewership (and using the city's vague "22,000 people reached" figure for the parade) and is infinitely harder to reschedule.

Well since we technically own the stadiums (the state) it does behoove us to protect some of our most valuable tourist destinations. Yes it is stupid i agree.

Why the fuck do humans do parades. It costs over 10m to do macys thanksgiving in new York and provides less than an hour of entertainment, and that assumes you can even call parades entertainment.

Maybe I’m just missing the point and that’s fine, but I think our city can spend money on things better than dressing up and walking down a road that most of the citizens didn’t want closed because even though All the rich yts get thanksgiving off, some of us still have to go to work.

It could be there just aren’t enough cops to cover both events. I know they’ve had staffing issues, not sure if that’s the case but it’s possible.

One of my favorite events! Remember Underdog Lady and getting into it with Satan-Claus! Great stuff! Check out Atomic TV’s holiday episode! https://youtu.be/BDDv5ndE98U Edit: fixed auto-correct error

Calm down Scrooge. Clearly you’ve never been to this parade that lasts nearly 4 hours and is incredibly entertaining on a very low budget.

The city does not pay for the parade. It is put on by the community & business associations. Costs are covered through fund raising, donations, and volunteered time.

http://www.mayorschristmasparade.net/

>Sponsored by community associations and businesses in North Baltimore's Hampden and Medfield neighborhoods.

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Private police force and security for an event are different. Please drop the strawman argument

How much do the Ravens pay the BPD for security every game?

As soon as I saw the url I knew it was going to be alarmist

It's a matter of staffing. So this is overtime, and finding officers who want to work overtime isn't easy, so they end up drafting people. And the issue is that as the number of cops has dropped, it's not like the number of posts needed has changed. There needs to be a bigger discussion around BPD not being available to staff all of the traffic posts.

If only there was some way they could use $500 million to hire more cops... If only there was $ome way to incentivize people to do become police officer$...

They have the money to hire them and the highest pay in the state. Incentives for residency and college.

No one wants this job anymore. It's an issue everywhere, not just here.

...keep raising the starting salary until people take the job. That's how the labor market works

I mean it takes years because of labor contracts.

A lot

Eyyy timetocrime

The ravens aren’t responsible for a parade through one specific neighborhood.

Do you promise?

How about the city leans on the Maryland State Police for assistance instead of just using them to pull people over on 83?