The Flop

I am glad to see that charges we dropped against the eighty or so poker players who were cited for playing in a tournament in Baltimore City last week. Not necessarily because they did not break the law; they did, but the police officers filed the charges incorrectly requiring the citations be thrown out. It is that the Office of the State's Attorney recognized that persuing this further would be a waste of court resources.

I understand that this action was against the law. The law is the law, even if it is antiquated and needs to be fixed. But with all of the problems going on in Baltimore City, with all of the work that has gone undone in making the streets safe in the last five, ten, fifteen years, the question has to be asked; was this a good use of City Police resources? And the clear answer seems to be no.