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Baltimore's Murder Rate Climbs To 43
WBAL ^ | 5/31/2015

Posted on 05/31/2015 10:23:00 AM PDT by Altura Ct.

Baltimore City has now recorded 43 murders in May, making this the second deadliest month on record.

Late this morning, homicide detectives were investigating in the 1900-block of North Collington Avenue in East Baltimore, where a man was shot. Medics at the scene pronounced the victim dead.

This is one of three murders that took place Sunday in the city.

Police say two men were found shot in the head at around 1:15 Sunday morning in the 2000-block of Belair Road.

The victims have not been identified.

Police began tallying these records in 1970, and May is apparently the second deadliest month in that 45 year period.

The deadliest month in that period was in December, 1971, when 44 people were killed in the city.

There have been more than 100 non-fatal shootings this month.

Some clergy in Baltimore have asked Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake to declare a state of emergency to address the problem.

One pastor tells Maryland's News This Week, that such a declaration may be too late to address the problem.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: baltimore; blackkk; crime; elijahcummings; maryland; rawlingsblake; thugculture
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1 posted on 05/31/2015 10:23:00 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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To: Altura Ct.

Up to 43 and the day is only half over.

That is 3 new ones overnight.


2 posted on 05/31/2015 10:24:53 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: Altura Ct.

A single number is not a rate.


3 posted on 05/31/2015 10:25:15 AM PDT by Corey Ohlis (Visualize Swirled Peas)
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To: Corey Ohlis

somebody hired.....one of the rioters to write headlines for the local tv station...


4 posted on 05/31/2015 10:26:57 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Corey Ohlis

A number per month is a rate. (X/t)


5 posted on 05/31/2015 10:27:58 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Altura Ct.

The rate is up, but not 43%.

The count is up 43.

Another example of ignorant journalism.


6 posted on 05/31/2015 10:28:01 AM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civil law enables him to do so.)
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To: Altura Ct.

“Just have to give them a little space to kill”.


7 posted on 05/31/2015 10:28:06 AM PDT by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: TomGuy

But, this is only the SECOND deadliest month on record. They might as well “Shoot” for the record! LOL.


8 posted on 05/31/2015 10:28:30 AM PDT by 2harddrive
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To: Corey Ohlis

Innumeracy among modern journalists is expected. Not knowing the difference between a count and a rate would be an indicator thereof.


9 posted on 05/31/2015 10:31:54 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Altura Ct.

Slavery, your legacy lives on and on.


10 posted on 05/31/2015 10:32:44 AM PDT by Tea Party Terrorist (Why work for a living when you can vote for a living?)
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To: freedumb2003
Actually, the count is up to 43 deaths, but it isn't up 43 more than the previous number.

FWIW I think in this context "43" needs a noun to modify. "A total of 43" would also work.

But, yeah, if this writing (especially that headline) is the result of all of that extra money being poured into Baltimore schools....it isn't working.

11 posted on 05/31/2015 10:32:45 AM PDT by grania
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To: Corey Ohlis
A single number is not a rate.

There was a saying about the Baltimore Whore: "One a day in Tampa Bay".

For those in Baltimore, it's more than 1.43 a day in May.

12 posted on 05/31/2015 10:35:20 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: TomGuy

45 by Midnight.


13 posted on 05/31/2015 10:41:42 AM PDT by PLMerite ("The issue is never the issue. The issue is the Revolution.")
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To: Corey Ohlis

No but its a start journalists are crap today writers too most news org get most things wrong sidewalks are concrete not cement all truck crashes are not jackknifes


14 posted on 05/31/2015 10:45:10 AM PDT by al baby (Hi Mom)
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To: Corey Ohlis

Exactly. A single number is not a rate. The media is a victim of its own dumbing-down-America process.

Stupid is as stupid reports.


15 posted on 05/31/2015 10:48:05 AM PDT by samtheman
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To: Altura Ct.

Green says the spike in crime recently is due in part to a “spiritual break down,” among residents.

The writer never heard of breakdown, I guess.

In before any Tom Petty references. Or Bob Seger for that matter.


16 posted on 05/31/2015 11:01:59 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Be a blessing to a stranger today for some have entertained angels unaware)
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To: MeshugeMikey

somebody hired.....one of the rioters to write headlines for the local tv station...
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Many of the local Baltimore mainstream media’s writers and editors are as stupid as much of the city population.


17 posted on 05/31/2015 11:04:11 AM PDT by House Atreides (CRUZ or lose!)
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To: Altura Ct.

In other words, before the Mayor of Baltimore imposed a state of anarchy on her city by refusing to allow Baltimore police officers to do their job, Baltimore’s police department was saving 40 innocent lives a month from murderers.

And the situation will get worse, since the perpetrators of this month’s 43 murders are still on the loose and they will grow in numbers — unless the Mayor of Baltimore either imposes a curfew on the city’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods; supports the police in making mass arrests; or calls in the National Guard to deal with the city’s growing problem.

None of these alternatives can be expected to be put into action by Baltimore’s Mayor from Hell, as she’s turned out to be. And just as the citizens of Ramadi are being raped and murdered by ISIS, the citizens of Baltimore will continue to be raped and murdered by their fellow citizens. While the Mayor sits by and does nothing.


18 posted on 05/31/2015 11:04:39 AM PDT by Bluestocking
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To: House Atreides

given the cities demographic and social structure... Id bet that both “groups” are just about as edumocated, much


19 posted on 05/31/2015 11:06:21 AM PDT by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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The Mayor is incompetent and a martyr to liberal ideologies that are failing in the face of facts.

People are dying because of this poorly run city. It’s no secret. Support law and order or become like Tombstone before Wyatt Earp.


20 posted on 05/31/2015 11:07:23 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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