I am going to take Justin Fenton article from The Baltimore Sun and rewrite it so it is talking about traffic "accident" crime and put the gun related number in brackets.<\/p>\n
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After a weekend in which 43 [18] people in the city were run over or ran into and all sent to the hospital, including a police detective who was injured and a 8-year-old boy who died, Baltimore Police Commissioner Frederick H. Beal III used the normal occurrence of traffic carnage to argue Monday for even less traffic enforcement in the city.<\/p>\n
Beal, who has accompanied Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to Annapolis to push for tougher penalties for gun offenders but traffic law offenders are still not a big problem in the city. The recent cycling accident where a young man still lies in a coma and the police have said no charges against the driver will be likely underscores the point, traffic accidents and enforcement are not that big of concern for the police department.<\/p>\n
"After drivers crash one car, they get another car again. To say it minimally, it’s [exasperating] that more people don’t understand the enormous ramifications of these guys running around the city with these 150 horsepower machines with little thought of others or the law," Beal said at a Monday morning news conference. "The \u2026 people living in this city expect that when people do bad things, they’re going to be held accountable unless of course they do bad things with an automobile, that is after all understandable."<\/p>\n