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Deadliest year in Baltimore history ends with 344 homicides (and more than 900 shot)
Baltimore Sun ^ | January 4, 2016 | Kevin Rector

Posted on 01/04/2016 10:26:38 AM PST by Zakeet

Blood was shed in Baltimore at an unprecedented pace in 2015, with mostly young, black men shot to death in a near-daily crush of violence.

On a per-capita basis, the year was the deadliest ever in the city. The year's tally of 344 homicides was second only to the record 353 in 1993, when Baltimore had about 100,000 more residents.

The killings were on pace with recent years in the early months of 2015 but skyrocketed after the unrest and rioting of late April. In five of the next eight months, killings topped 30 or 40 a month.

Nearly 90 percent of the year's homicides were the result of shootings, renewing calls for new gun laws. Counting nonfatal shootings, gun violence was up more than 75 percent compared to last year, with more than 900 people shot.

(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; crime; guns; murder

They need more gun laws ... more space to destroy ... more CVS freebies ... and much less police!

1 posted on 01/04/2016 10:26:38 AM PST by Zakeet
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To: Zakeet

I’m havin’ a day ja voo voo.


2 posted on 01/04/2016 10:27:46 AM PST by deadrock (I is someone else.)
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To: Zakeet
Those cops sure were busy!

/s

3 posted on 01/04/2016 10:29:37 AM PST by TexasCajun (#BlackViolenceMatters)
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To: Zakeet

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3379526/posts


4 posted on 01/04/2016 10:31:47 AM PST by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Zakeet
On a per-capita basis, the year was the deadliest ever in the city. The year's tally of 344 homicides was second only to the record 353 in 1993, when Baltimore had about 100,000 more residents.

1993 was the height of the crack cocaine wars, when gangs killed over territorial monopolies.

5 posted on 01/04/2016 10:34:07 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: Zakeet

The administration doesn’t care, as long as there is no handy Whitey around to blame.


7 posted on 01/04/2016 10:37:43 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Zakeet

By God, Obama will fix the problem. All he has to do is take the guns for Arizonians and Mississippians. That will bring Baltimore’s murder rate down fast.

or something.


8 posted on 01/04/2016 10:39:45 AM PST by Tupelo (Honest men go to Washington, but honest men do not stay in Washington.)
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To: Redleg Duke

Thank god my family left that kind of hellhole before I was born, TBH I think there is nothing more we can do, they got themselves in this mess, they need to get out of it themselves, the worst thing they did was buy into the progressives and the great society, after that, its history.


9 posted on 01/04/2016 10:47:55 AM PST by the_individual2014
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To: Redleg Duke

No, it’s the Tea Party! No, wait, DT!!!

Nooooo - it was Boooooooooooosh!!


10 posted on 01/04/2016 10:54:21 AM PST by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: Zakeet

How can this be?

Maryland passed one of the most restrictive gun control laws in the country effective 1 Oct. 2013. The lions would lay down with the lambs. Just ask Martin O’Malley. It was his baby.

Must be a misprint. /s


11 posted on 01/04/2016 11:51:14 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik ("Girls like to marry a military man - he already knows how to take orders.")
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To: Zakeet

Yes...my plan is working perfectly.

12 posted on 01/04/2016 12:28:24 PM PST by SoFloFreeper (Obama hates the three Cs: Christianity, Constitution, and capitalism.)
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To: deadrock

Democrat mayor, democrat city council, democrat police, democrat victims. NOT OUR PROBLEM.

That said a few hundred more pages of gun control laws will gin up the vote and assure people democrats are ‘doing something’...


13 posted on 01/04/2016 12:33:34 PM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: deadrock

Democrat mayor, democrat city council, democrat police, democrat victims. NOT OUR PROBLEM.

That said a few hundred more pages of gun control laws will gin up the vote and assure the black community that democrats are ‘doing something’...


14 posted on 01/04/2016 12:34:48 PM PST by GOPJ (The MSM's the thug arm of the Democrat Party. They'll keep a lid on anything that might hurt Hillary)
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To: Zakeet

How many white people KILLED Blacks...? How many whites killed whites? Asians? Pacific Islanders?


15 posted on 01/04/2016 5:25:59 PM PST by ExCTCitizen (I'm ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I'm NOT sorry...)
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To: Zakeet; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ...

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


16 posted on 01/04/2016 11:11:32 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Terrorism, the thing that shall not be named by the MSM)
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