Baltimore police responcable for 49 lives lost and 7,686 people injured in 2008
For those of you who missed this line in the previous article Biking to school:
"We must also continue to ask the Baltimore Police Department to live up to their part of the bargain as outlined in the Baltimore Bicycle Master Plan."
I am really not sure why the police continue to be unresponsive or why they think traffic safety is not an issue, in Baltimore 24% of our traffic fatalities are pedestrians or cyclists; Maryland 20.6%; national average 14%. DC's pedestrian fatality rate is15.2/M ours is 17.3/M, National average 14.4/M. (2008 data) Approximately one third of Baltimore's traffic victims are kids (13% of the population.) And we all know how well motorist yield to pedestrians around here, obey speed limits and generally drive safe.
It's not like we don't have some agencies on board but without the ability to enforce/give warnings for moving violations, I'm not sure how effective of a Street Smart campaign we are going to have.