OK, so I can’t type, and I’m clairvoyant. I moved in November 2009, not six months from now. Good catch.
I live a half a mile from the Baltimore City line and have been here since the mid ‘70’s. When I moved here from southeastern PA, Baltimore was a nice little city with a small town feel. It had a white mayor—William Donald Schaefer. A white police commissioner—Donald Pomerleau. A white city state’s attorney—Dwight Swisher. All of them were law and order guys who put up with no bullshit. Of course Baltimore had it’s race riots in the late ‘60’s and the blacks seemed reticent to start much trouble outside of domestic stabbings and shootings but nothing to disturb the white folks much. If there were black gangs, you didn’t notice any activity to speak of. Then Schaefer ran for and won the governor’s race in 1986 and the city elected it’s first black mayor who took office in 1987. Kurt Schmoke was a bright lawyer and a real nice guy. Unfortunately, he lost his balls somewhere along the line and the out-of-town drug gangs took over the city in less than a year and that was about all she wrote as far as any charm in the city.
I may as well place a few bets.