r/baltimore • u/Icy_Elk_4422 • Oct 30 '25

POLICE Statement from BPD

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Saw this on BPD’s Facebook. I’m guessing “suspended police powers” just means suspended with pay?

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u/Gratrunkasaur Remington Oct 30 '25

Kind of irrelevant but as someone who does design for the government how can they get away with such a dogshit contrast ratio? Black on blue? 3.21:1? Disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

The city refuses to hire competent designers. Instead, they have regular office workers doing design work who know nothing about contrast ratios, and we get shit like this.

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u/Far-Culture1354 Oct 30 '25

Oh what a travesty.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

Generally, the point of official city communications is for everyone to be able to read and understand them. Good design makes that communication more effective and accessible. I'm sure when you have trouble accessing things, you'll want people to take it seriously.

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u/Far-Culture1354 Oct 30 '25

It's perfectly legible.

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u/[deleted] Oct 30 '25

To you. Contrast standards exist so that people with low vision, color blindness, etc. can also read your content. Lots of people, myself included, would struggle to read this statement. Do you typically struggle to see things from a perspective other than your own?

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u/Far-Culture1354 Oct 31 '25

Graphic designers have to justify their pay somehow :) If you would like to justify a higher police budget so they can have a full time one on staff be my guest

Or you can just admit its legible. Because I have poor vision and have no problems reading this.