Baltimore surges past Detroit in number of homicides in 2015

Baltimore Brew ^ | August 7, 2015 | Mark Reutter

[scooby321]

Carly Fiorina ‘Relieved’ Cops Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death

Carly not ready for primetime

[KosmicKitty]

Too many of our candidates are ready

[ronnie raygun]

Black lives matter....crickets............

[RayChuang88]

I see a lot of horse dung there about guns but nothing about the skin tones of the perps and their victims.

Anyone who's seen HBO's The Wire note that the crime problem in Baltimore was pretty accurately depicted in that series.

The biggest problem with Baltimore was after the 1968 riots right after the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., many non-blacks fled the city on a truly massive scale to parts of Maryland outside of Baltimore itself, which really hurt the tax base of the city. It didn't help that the city of Baltimore essentially is run almost separately from the rest of Maryland, which means the state government can't do much the help the city economically at times. As such, the city rapidly fell into economic malaise, and today Baltimore will soon replace Detroit as the most miserable city in the USA.

At least Detroit is finally starting slough off the terrible political and economic legacy left by Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick--even Manuel "Matty" Moroun, who essentially bottlenecked goods trade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario due to his ownership of the Ambassador Bridge, is being put in his place with the start of the construction of the long-overdue second bridge crossing, the Gordie Howe International Trade Crossing bridge, which just started construction work.

[InABunkerUnderSF]

Hey wait, Where is Phoenix on the list? Size wise they're right between Philadelphia and San Diego, who both made the list. Phoenix has an approximately 50% minority population and the federal government helps arm the drug gangs and terrorists.

What could be keeping the crime rate down? I can only think of two things. One's initials are JMA the other's initials are CC

[Brilliant]

There are no people left in Detroit to murder.

[VanShuyten]

“...with high-caliber magazines.”

For some reason, I can’t get them to work in my 9mm. I guess I’ll have to drive up to Balmer and talk to one of the local experts to find out how to do it.

[cripplecreek]

At least Detroit is finally starting slough off the terrible political and economic legacy left by Coleman Young and Kwame Kilpatrick--even Manuel "Matty" Moroun, who essentially bottlenecked goods trade between Detroit and Windsor, Ontario due to his ownership of the Ambassador Bridge, is being put in his place with the start of the construction of the long-overdue second bridge crossing, the Gordie Howe International Trade Crossing bridge, which just started construction work.

Best thing to happen to Detroit in a long time and a good thing for America. Naturally our _resident did his usual passive aggressive BS and has if not outright tried to stop it, sure slowed things down with his refusal to release money for related infrastructure unless union pension funds got almost half of it. I was glad to see Snyder brush it off and go ahead anyway.

[Red in Blue PA]

“Give them room to kill” -Mayor of Baltimore

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Baltimore: the first runner-up in murder.

Maryland “Freak State” PING!

[Colorado Doug]

Police in Baltimore and nationwide say they are finding more weapons with high-caliber magazines.

I wonder if I should get me one of them high caliber magazines. Is that a really well made magazine or is it one that holds really big, assault type bullets?

[cherry]

the drugs on the street came from the dumb arse mayor wanting to give the peoples "room to destroy" and destroy they did....and robbed many, many pharmacies while doing it....

nice job mayor.....I hope Karma comes and returns the favor....

[GOPJ]

Competing hellholes... I’ll put five on Baltimore...

[Bigg Red]

Yay! B’more takes the Silver. Oh, wait....

[hal ogen]

Go, baltimore, GO! Note to self: cancel planned city walking tour of baltimore in maryland ( THE Freak state).

[Bigg Red]

Yeah, I do not plan on venturing into downtown Baltimore any time soon.