I tried to research the relationships of people getting killed in Baltimore. Each article was a tear-jerker or had an agenda message, but none of the first twenty had any statistics that lent a meaningful interpretation on the issues causing the deaths. Are these gang related? Are they due to importing a large third world population that is inherently more violent? Are these shootings racial? The “news” articles are useless. Where is the investigative reporting?
There was a huge amount on Freddie Gray. He seems to have gotten more ink than all the other murders. I viewed those articles as agenda driven.
The investigative reporting you are referring to would get the reporter fired, as a racist. The relationship is related to no father, gangs substituted for a father, addiction to full that hole in the soul created by no father and not finding another Father as a substitute. Society has no expectation that any young black men will contribute to society. Welfare is the price we pay to keep them captured and in their place. As anyone would, they rebel and revolt in the hope of feeling free. It is an illusion.
Drug trade. Heroin. For background read the David Simon book Homicide: Life on the killing streets or just watch The Wire.
The lack of large organized crime such as La Cosa Nostra or Russian mob or Yakuza keeps most of the drug trade at the street level. The small time gangs are constantly fighting over the best areas to sell drugs.
I would love to know how many civilians were killed versus players. Players in the drug game.