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https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/06/25/ocean-city-maryland-police-vape-arrests/
OCEAN CITY — A year before video of the violent arrests of six Black teenagers in this Maryland resort town went viral, spurring calls for reform and demands for an investigation, a police lieutenant grabbed a White man who was shouting insults at officers and punched him in the face.
The Ocean City Police Department said the lieutenant’s actions were “within policy” that day on the crowded boardwalk, where the population swells with nearly 8 million visitors each year, and officers on foot and bicycle are charged with maintaining a “family friendly atmosphere.”
But on many summer days and nights, the atmosphere is decidedly unfriendly, with police — some veterans, some freshly trained — enduring taunts and name-calling from beach goers and sometimes resorting to violence in confrontations over infractions like drinking in the street, trespassing or vaping on the boardwalk.
Records released by the department show its officers use force a couple hundred times a year during arrests that are concentrated in the summer season. Policing experts say such confrontations illustrate the importance of de-escalation techniques, especially in today’s charged law enforcement environment. While limited, publicly available data shows the violent arrests in Ocean City have involved both Black and White civilians, with a disproportionate percentage of use-of-force incidents involving Black people.
At a time when Maryland and other states are launching new efforts to hold police officers accountable, and the nation is paying closer attention to police treatment of minorities, the June 6 and 12 arrests of several young Black men have drawn national attention.
The incidents — in which unarmed teens were shocked by Tasers, held down on the ground and repeatedly kneed in the rib cage — are generating questions about how a popular vacation spot polices its visitors, and whether officers should do more to de-escalate confrontations before resorting to force.
Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan says that if people obey the law and are courteous to each other, they have nothing to worry about. “We have ordinances, and we do need to enforce those ordinances,” he said. “Our goal is compliance, and if people comply there’s really no issue. The majority of people do.”
But some state Democratic leaders and advocates of reform say the videos from this month provide fresh evidence that policing across the country needs to be reimagined. Civil rights leaders see the officers’ actions as a manifestation of racism.
“Once again, another viral video has shown the world how police harm Black people on a daily basis,” Dana Vickers Shelley, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, said in a statement. “Officers must be held accountable for excessive and unnecessary use of force even when they are not captured on video. Change is not optional.”
Summer tensions
Each June in Ocean City, thousands of newly minted high school graduates storm the beaches for Senior Week. Young people, some infused with alcohol, collect in boisterous groups, roaming sidewalks, staggering in and out of rental houses, hanging over hotel balcony railings. They share the boardwalk with families, empty-nesters and retirees.
It’s a diverse crowd, reflecting a state that is 31 percent African American and 11 percent Latino. Ocean City’s year-round population of 7,000, in contrast, is about 90 percent White. Its police force, which has about 115 year-round officers but swells with several dozen seasonal hires each summer, is also overwhelmingly White, and the police chief, mayor and all seven council members are White.
In a release of data last year to the news outlet Delmarva Now, Ocean City police reported 883 use-of-force incidents from Jan. 1, 2016, to June 1, 2020. About half of the incidents involved White citizens and roughly 40 percent involved Black citizens, the numbers appear to show.
OCEAN CITY — A year before video of the violent arrests of six Black teenagers in this Maryland resort town went viral, spurring calls for reform and demands for an investigation, a police lieutenant grabbed a White man who was shouting insults at officers and punched him in the face.
The Ocean City Police Department said the lieutenant’s actions were “within policy” that day on the crowded boardwalk, where the population swells with nearly 8 million visitors each year, and officers on foot and bicycle are charged with maintaining a “family friendly atmosphere.”
But on many summer days and nights, the atmosphere is decidedly unfriendly, with police — some veterans, some freshly trained — enduring taunts and name-calling from beach goers and sometimes resorting to violence in confrontations over infractions like drinking in the street, trespassing or vaping on the boardwalk.
Records released by the department show its officers use force a couple hundred times a year during arrests that are concentrated in the summer season. Policing experts say such confrontations illustrate the importance of de-escalation techniques, especially in today’s charged law enforcement environment. While limited, publicly available data shows the violent arrests in Ocean City have involved both Black and White civilians, with a disproportionate percentage of use-of-force incidents involving Black people.
At a time when Maryland and other states are launching new efforts to hold police officers accountable, and the nation is paying closer attention to police treatment of minorities, the June 6 and 12 arrests of several young Black men have drawn national attention.
The incidents — in which unarmed teens were shocked by Tasers, held down on the ground and repeatedly kneed in the rib cage — are generating questions about how a popular vacation spot polices its visitors, and whether officers should do more to de-escalate confrontations before resorting to force.
Ocean City Mayor Rick Meehan says that if people obey the law and are courteous to each other, they have nothing to worry about. “We have ordinances, and we do need to enforce those ordinances,” he said. “Our goal is compliance, and if people comply there’s really no issue. The majority of people do.”
But some state Democratic leaders and advocates of reform say the videos from this month provide fresh evidence that policing across the country needs to be reimagined. Civil rights leaders see the officers’ actions as a manifestation of racism.
“Once again, another viral video has shown the world how police harm Black people on a daily basis,” Dana Vickers Shelley, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland, said in a statement. “Officers must be held accountable for excessive and unnecessary use of force even when they are not captured on video. Change is not optional.”
Summer tensions
Each June in Ocean City, thousands of newly minted high school graduates storm the beaches for Senior Week. Young people, some infused with alcohol, collect in boisterous groups, roaming sidewalks, staggering in and out of rental houses, hanging over hotel balcony railings. They share the boardwalk with families, empty-nesters and retirees.
It’s a diverse crowd, reflecting a state that is 31 percent African American and 11 percent Latino. Ocean City’s year-round population of 7,000, in contrast, is about 90 percent White. Its police force, which has about 115 year-round officers but swells with several dozen seasonal hires each summer, is also overwhelmingly White, and the police chief, mayor and all seven council members are White.
In a release of data last year to the news outlet Delmarva Now, Ocean City police reported 883 use-of-force incidents from Jan. 1, 2016, to June 1, 2020. About half of the incidents involved White citizens and roughly 40 percent involved Black citizens, the numbers appear to show.
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sounds like a terrible place, I’ve read about it because of h20 over the years
