Baltimore had a murder rate of about 43/100,000 population in 2006. For comparison, the murder rate for Philadelphia and Wash. DC were in the mid 20’s/100,000, and San Diego was around 5.4/100,000.
Source: www.city-data.com (great link for info on US cities)
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Have you seen the interactive map of this year’s homicides in Balto?
It is quite instructive. There have been 13 homicides of whites since January, 256 of blacks. There were more than 20 of kids under the age of 18. If kids were dying of food poisoning or shark bites or flu, the publicity would be pervasive. Murder does not even rate an article in the paper, just a tab on the interactive display.
http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
Just Darwins theory at work ;-0
But, but, the then mayor said that things were getting better and so Maryland elected him Governor. Since that election I have heard him say that Baltimore is the best city in the country.
Why, he even spent more than a half million dollars on a campaign to come up with a slogan for Baltimore. What is it you say.... "Get in on it."