What part? The link's to the Commercial Observer about a pretty normal corporate relo. You've decided that this supports your (amply expressed) preexisting worldview, and I'm laughing at both the underlying leap in logic and the specific application here.

But please, correct me if I'm wrong: is there anything to suggest that this has anything to do with crime other than your/one's personal fixation on crime?

Absolutely impossible to know. If I had to guess, they don't need a suite the size of their current Baltimore offices under any circumstances anymore, but may well keep a smaller office here for local employees who aren't totally remote.

Yup. Given the relative size and prices of the two properties, it's entirely possible that the reason behind this is just "Pandora would've always preferred to be in NYC, and now that their in-office staff has gotten small enough, they can afford it." In any case, there's no new ax to grind here.

> this is exactly what I'm talking about. people keep thinking of this as a 1-dimensional problem of more/less of our existing law enforcement

No dude, this is exactly and specifically what you're doing. The answer to "why is a Danish company moving its US HQ to Times Square?" is only "free Tile trackers!" if you got slapped on the back at the wrong moment during a TED talk in 2014 or so.

The NYC property's going to be 1/3 the size of their square footage in Baltimore. Given what the last 2-3 years have been like specifically in terms of commercial real estate, it's reasonable to think this would be playing out the same way even if we'd built out the entire Baltimore metro network and most people were commuting in via transit.

> Baltimore city residents spend far too little time thinking about economics

Proceeds to write 350 words about 'what if economics is really how people feel about crime?'

> If the union can't get a contract

The election was in June. The vote was about 2:1 in favor of unionizing. A vote to strike at this point is a vote for no union at all.

As always, you can tell a lot about a person by which laws they think are worth enforcing and which aren't.

> uhh, the whole point of bargaining agreements is to sign a contract to lock in pay and benefits (and whatever else is agreed to between the union and the owner).

uhh, this requires a bargaining agreement. This store unionized by election because Apple wouldn't voluntarily recognize them, and they don't have a contract because Apple won't voluntarily negotiate with them.

proportionate to what, though? How confident are you that this didn't start with something like racist voicemails? This is a bad look for Mosby no matter what, but it's also a partial screenshot from 3 days after whatever went down.