[Calvin Locke]

I was listening to a piece on Radio Canada about two years ago.

I'm not sure where it was produced, but the "social engineers" were bragging that Baltimore's street bums of the druggie
persuasion come from "all income levels".

The other point I remember is that the street corner drug distribution is such a free-for-all, that violence is quite commonplace.

[Nonstatist]

College kids come into the city to buy their drugs and there are a fair number of lower class whites with drug problems there; but they generally do not have nearly the levels of violence associated with them as the black underclass.

There has been some focus on cleaning up the street corner distribution since one law abiding family was murdered (arson) about 2 years ago for "ratting" on the local dealers. But its been pretty half hearted , IMO.