I can’t imagine actuality having to walk through Baltimore.
Last year my niece was caught in the middle of a shooting while in her car, at a stop light after leaving UMBC. Two teen gangsters starting shooting at each other in the street, one in front of the car and one behind it. They wound up attempting to shoot through the car rear window/windshield to hit each other.
She only survived by the grace of God as the car was totalled due to bullets in the engine block and one that was embedded in the headrest bc it was stopped by the metal bar that adjusted the headrest. Neither shooter was hit or ever found according to the Baltimore PD.
I can’t picture it either. I think the reason there’s so much crime in cities is because the people are one on top of each other all the time. No personal space.
If you put that many rats in one place without a way to escape, they’ll kill each other, too.
I have never understood why people like living in or near big cities.
The older we get, the further away from other people we move. We raised our kids in a neighborhood because my husband was raised that way, and he thought it was important for them. Now he understands why I like living away from the hustle and bustle.