What's the matter with Baltimore?

[Dave-W]

BALTIMORE, MD. (WUSA9) - While much of the U.S. is enjoying crime rates near their lowest in 50 years, Baltimore appears to be in a crime-fueled tailspin that is threatening an impressive renaissance that is underway.

The number of murders, including the Wednesday shooting of a Baltimore Police homicide detective, is on pace to rival the worst years of the mid-1990s before a dramatic reversal in the first decade of the millennium. The city has logged 309 so far in 2017.

The killings have included the murder of off-duty Washington DC Metropolitan police sergeant Tony Anthony Mason Jr. who lived in Baltimore until his death November 4.

RELATED: Baltimore detective dies after shot in head, search for suspect continues

Meanwhile, police are struggling to end a new trend of senseless, random attacks by predatory groups of roving juveniles that have badly shaken some of the city's gentrified neighborhoods that enjoyed relative peace until 2017.

CITY IN CRISIS: What's the matter with Baltimore?

 

[joshua 1 9]

BALTIMORE, MD. (WUSA9) - While much of the U.S. is enjoying crime rates near their lowest in 50 years, Baltimore appears to be in a crime-fueled tailspin that is threatening an impressive renaissance that is underway.

The number of murders, including the Wednesday shooting of a Baltimore Police homicide detective, is on pace to rival the worst years of the mid-1990s before a dramatic reversal in the first decade of the millennium. The city has logged 309 so far in 2017.

The killings have included the murder of off-duty Washington DC Metropolitan police sergeant Tony Anthony Mason Jr. who lived in Baltimore until his death November 4.

RELATED: Baltimore detective dies after shot in head, search for suspect continues

Meanwhile, police are struggling to end a new trend of senseless, random attacks by predatory groups of roving juveniles that have badly shaken some of the city's gentrified neighborhoods that enjoyed relative peace until 2017.

CITY IN CRISIS: What's the matter with Baltimore?

Perhaps it is because they have gotten to be to liberal. I have a brother that lives there.

 

[inquiring mind]

No consequences = No fear

 

[jeancommunicates]

The Islamic Muslims in Baltimore have celebrated 70 years of living there.

 

[*Starlight*]

The Islamic Muslims in Baltimore have celebrated 70 years of living there.

As opposed to the non-Islamic Muslims, I guess.

 

[ViaCrucis]

The Islamic Muslims in Baltimore have celebrated 70 years of living there.

This sounds an awful lot like scapegoating to me.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[ViaCrucis]

Perhaps it is because they have gotten to be to liberal. I have a brother that lives there.

This also sounds an awful lot like scapegoating.

-CryptoLutheran

 

[iluvatar5150]

Perhaps it is because they have gotten to be to liberal. I have a brother that lives there.

I live in Baltimore. The city isn't terribly liberal, but it has had loads of poverty, corruption and ineffective leadership for a long time. In a recent example, gun arrests have dropped after a bunch of officers on the gun task force were arrested for robbing people. One guy was also running interference for his childhood bff, one of the biggest heroin dealers in the city.

The Islamic Muslims in Baltimore have celebrated 70 years of living there.

So?

 

[War_Eagle]

BALTIMORE, MD. (WUSA9) - While much of the U.S. is enjoying crime rates near their lowest in 50 years, Baltimore appears to be in a crime-fueled tailspin that is threatening an impressive renaissance that is underway.

The number of murders, including the Wednesday shooting of a Baltimore Police homicide detective, is on pace to rival the worst years of the mid-1990s before a dramatic reversal in the first decade of the millennium. The city has logged 309 so far in 2017.

The killings have included the murder of off-duty Washington DC Metropolitan police sergeant Tony Anthony Mason Jr. who lived in Baltimore until his death November 4.

RELATED: Baltimore detective dies after shot in head, search for suspect continues

Meanwhile, police are struggling to end a new trend of senseless, random attacks by predatory groups of roving juveniles that have badly shaken some of the city's gentrified neighborhoods that enjoyed relative peace until 2017.

CITY IN CRISIS: What's the matter with Baltimore?

Go back and read the text of the press conferences and mayor's speeches back during the riots in B'more a couple of years ago and you'll have your answer.

The mayor was very honest about the fact that their solution to crime is to try to appease the thugs and criminals.

 

[War_Eagle]

Perhaps it is because they have gotten to be to liberal. I have a brother that lives there.

We lived in rural Cecil County and most of our new neighbors were people fleeing B'more.

 

[Dave-W]

The mayor was very honest about the fact that their solution to crime is to try to appease the thugs and criminals.

I remember that being on the news here.
With all of the gentrification and new Casino and everything, I thought they had gotten past that.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Go back and read the text of the press conferences and mayor's speeches back during the riots in B'more a couple of years ago and you'll have your answer.

The mayor was very honest about the fact that their solution to crime is to try to appease the thugs and criminals.

Yeah, I'm sure that's an accurate assessment of her speeches. Got any sources?

And Stephanie Rawlings-Blake isn't the mayor anymore.

We lived in rural Cecil County and most of our new neighbors were people fleeing B'more.

How long ago was this?

 

[iluvatar5150]

I remember that being on the news here.
With all of the gentrification and new Casino and everything, I thought they had gotten past that.

It's all over the place. Some areas are quite nice, some are still very bad, and there often isn't much of a boundary between the two. The difference between the east and west sides of York/Greenmount, for example, is pretty stark. The attacks by groups of kids have made the news because they've dared cross into the previously safe neighborhoods. I'm sure if they'd started these fights in the bad neighborhoods, nobody would've said anything about it.

 

[War_Eagle]

Yeah, I'm sure that's an accurate assessment of her speeches. Got any sources?

No, I typically don't carry around sources of years old incidents. That's why I suggested that he Google it

 

[War_Eagle]

I remember that being on the news here.
With all of the gentrification and new Casino and everything, I thought they had gotten past that.

Which new casino? The newest one I'm aware of is the one in Havre de Grace. Is that the one you mean?

 

[Dave-W]

It's all over the place. Some areas are quite nice, some are still very bad, and there often isn't much of a boundary between the two.

My son graduated from Univ of Baltimore (2010?)

I remember how stark the distinction was between neighborhoods - almost like Chicago.

 

[iluvatar5150]

Which new casino? The newest one I'm aware of is the one in Havre de Grace. Is that the one you mean?

Horseshoe opened in downtown Baltimore in 2014. It's down near Second Chance and the ramp to 295.

 

[Dave-W]

Which new casino? The newest one I'm aware of is the one in Havre de Grace. Is that the one you mean?

Horseshoe Casino on Baltimore's Inner Harbor.

 

[SummerMadness]

I previously posted a thread on the gun task force. BCPD was also found to be planting drugs on people resulting in charges getting dropped and people getting released (and we know some of them are criminals). Bottom line, corruption in the police breeds distrust in police. And when you have police officers working with drug dealers (as in the gun task force), should it be any surprise that people do not report crime or that murders are ignored?

When I look at something like planting drugs, I think of it like a shortcut similar to a scientist falsifying results. Often times, the person thinks they are doing a good thing because things will "work out" (I "know" my data will eventually support my beliefs, we "know" this guy is dirty so we'll get him off the street), but that's not how you do things. And when you take these shortcuts, you do more damage in the long run. People have legitimate fear about calling the police, and if you look at the DOJ report on the BCPD, there is a lot of reform that needs to be implemented. However, under the current administration, that does not appear likely.

The sad fact is that much of the violence is perpetrated by drug trafficking: In 2016, Baltimore's second-deadliest year on record, bullets claimed targets and bystanders alike

None of what we're seeing is new, this was the same type of violence and police corruption seen during prohibition. The war on drugs has created this problem, ending the war on drugs will help eliminate this problem.

 

[Forever Faith]

BALTIMORE, MD. (WUSA9) - While much of the U.S. is enjoying crime rates near their lowest in 50 years, Baltimore appears to be in a crime-fueled tailspin that is threatening an impressive renaissance that is underway.

The number of murders, including the Wednesday shooting of a Baltimore Police homicide detective, is on pace to rival the worst years of the mid-1990s before a dramatic reversal in the first decade of the millennium. The city has logged 309 so far in 2017.

The killings have included the murder of off-duty Washington DC Metropolitan police sergeant Tony Anthony Mason Jr. who lived in Baltimore until his death November 4.

RELATED: Baltimore detective dies after shot in head, search for suspect continues

Meanwhile, police are struggling to end a new trend of senseless, random attacks by predatory groups of roving juveniles that have badly shaken some of the city's gentrified neighborhoods that enjoyed relative peace until 2017.

CITY IN CRISIS: What's the matter with Baltimore?

Yes, Baltimore is the heroin capital of the United States as reported in this ABC news report. There are estimates ranging from 1 in 30 all the way to 1 in 10 of people living in Baltimore are addicts or heavy drug users. Its really sad since an addict's self serving attitude puts extreme hardships on their family relationships. Children feel unloved and look for love in all the wrong places including gangs and people who want only to use them. As the previous post mentions it all results in a vicious cycle. To make matters worse is that getting off heroin is extremely difficult. The crime is mostly isolated to certain neighborhoods (I lived in Baltimore City for a while) and the money motive makes policing virtually impossible. Please pray that the Word of God can some how find its way into the lives of these addicts and all those suffering/seeking love in Baltimore.