Afraid to go into Baltimore

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It's a slaughter house.

 

 

 

BALTIMORE — No one saw the baby.

She sat in a gold-hued car with tinted black windows as her 26-year-old father lay on the ground outside, dying.

All eyes were on him, another fallen body in a city increasingly defined by them.

In portions of Baltimore, the strobe of police cars is as much a part of the landscape as boarded-up homes. But the pace of the killings this year has been stunning as the city struggles to recover from rioting in 2015. As of Friday, 124 people had been slain, including five on a recent day, making Baltimore’s homicide rate one of the highest in the country. It is more than triple Washington’s rate and higher than the homicide rates in New Orleans and Chicago, two places that have become national symbols of gun violence.....

the homicide rate hit a high in 2015, the same year Freddie Gray died in police custody and the city erupted in civil unrest. That year, Baltimore had 344 homicides, the deadliest per capita in the city’s history. The next year, marked its second highest, with 318 deaths.

This year, it is on track to beat both records and surpass all other big U.S. cities. The 124 slayings in Baltimore, with a population of 614,000, bring the homicide rate to 20.2 per 100,000 residents. Comparatively, Washington, with 681,000 people, has had 41 homicides so far this year, for a rate of 6....http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/%E2%80%98did-you-hear-that%E2%80%99-amid-baltimore%E2%80%99s-surge-in-killings-a-faint-cry-in-a-locked-car/ar-BBB8v0S?li=BBnb7Kz

 

 

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http://data.baltimoresun.com/news/police/homicides/index.php?show_results=UPDATE+MAP&range=180&district=all&zipcode=All&cause=all&age=all&gender=all&race=all&article=all
Are you planning on visiting any of the bad neighborhoods?

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That's basically the whole city.

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No it isn't. It isn't Charles Vil, Mt Vernon, Downtown, Fells, etc.

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Not even close.

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OK. Just don't forget to duck when you have to drive through those sections to get into the city.

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I have never had an issue in the city.