An undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy in Florida nets a BaltCounty children's entertainment magician in a sex sting.
.. and we're number 5! Crime is down, but not here as much as elsewhere.
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Kids these days
17-year-old Dashawn Brown stabbed to death in the 3100 block of Edmondson Ave (in a house? on the street?)
An undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy in Florida nets a BaltCounty children's entertainment magician in a sex sting.
.. and we're number 5! Crime is down, but not here as much as elsewhere.
An undercover detective posing as a 14-year-old boy in Florida nets a BaltCounty children's entertainment magician in a sex sting.
.. and we're number 5! Crime is down, but not here as much as elsewhere.
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If you look closely, you'll find that although Detroit and St. Louis had higher levels of violent crime per capita, we exceeded them in murders per capita.
Conversely, although we had about the same per capita violence as Little Rock and Oakland, we are more murderous per capita.
Still a relative champ.
I consider Flint a statistical outlier, whose circumstance is largely due to current local economics.
Oh, you can throw Memphis & New Haven in with Oakland. Or onto a garbage heap. Either way.
Given the socioeconomic makeup of the big cities similar to Baltimore, and the political situation they find themselves in, not to mention, messed-up court systems, it will probably be difficult for Baltimore to reduce its viiolence much farther than it has the last couple of years.
Oh, the stats will wax and wane, but the truth is that Bmore is a city with a large population mired in structural poverty, and a huge illicit substance abuse problem. Neither of those are amenable to easy fixes.
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