MD ping.
http://essentials.baltimoresun.com/micro_sun/homicides/
This is a very informative interactive database regarding homicides in Baltimore City. It is necessary to choose a time interval in the first button, then choose any breakdown of race, sex, age, etc or choose all to see the destruction going on in the city.
If more than 20 children, under 18, died of any disease like food poisoning or MRSA, for example, the news would be all over it. Since it is “just” murder, it doesn’t make the paper, except in this database.
While there are areas that are ‘safe’, - no murders in Roland Park - the ‘few’ crime-ridden ‘inner city’ neighborhoods are spreading towards the city boundaries.