The real question is who killed the white victims? The Amish?
The murder pattern shows how blacks have spread throughout much of Baltimore into formerly white areas that had no crime (I lived in the Ashburton area, Dolfied, Garrison Blvd, then Garrison and Liberty Heights - went to schools there), and finally we moved to Baltimore County), and crime came with them.
I feel sorry for the honest black citizens who have to live and suffer under this umbrella of crime and murder. However, they probably voted for the white liberals and black bootlickers of the Democrat Party so they got what they wanted (and the unintended consequences of it).
Charm City is now “Bloody Baltimore”. So sad, yet so predictable.
Every black suffers for the crimes the thugs commit. They can live in Beverly Hills or the fanciest gated community.
They'll blame whitey though.
I grew up, "mostly" in Baltimore and lived and worked in and around the Baltimore area most of my life. My family moved there when I was in the 4th grade. We lived in the Beechfield /Tremont area just off of Frederick Ave. for about a year. Back then this area was mixed but still pretty nice but also surrounded by some rough and "thug" (black) areas like Edmonson Village. And we then moved to the Brooklyn / Curtis Bay area which was even in the mid 70's, and although mostly white back then, it was a pretty rough area. How shall I say? - a lot of white trash types, but then also a lot of white middle class working families like mine too, and many of them of Polish ancestry. But the Brooklyn Holmes housing project was not far from where we lived and while that's where most of the black kids in my elementary and middle school lived, but most of those living "in the projects" were white - many white single parent households with an unmarried mom with many kids, nearly all with different and absent fathers, living on welfare.
I was fortunate to get into Western HS which was a great school back then and the only reason my parents stayed in Brooklyn as long as we did, but right after I graduated, we moved to out to Cockeysville.
I have to ask, not that it matters, but are you Jewish? I seem to recall that the areas you lived in Baltimore, especially Ashburton, Garrison Forrest and Liberty Heights, were once heavily Jewish before they fled to the suburbs. The Barry Levinson semi-autobiographical movie trilogies- Diner, Avalon and Liberty Heights were about these neighborhoods in the late 50's to early 60's. But Ashburton was mostly black even when I was a kid in the 70's, so I must assume when you lived that, it was long before then.
Charm City is now "Bloody Baltimore". So sad, yet so predictable.
It is sad. Baltimore, while it always had its rough areas, predominately black and high crime areas – places you knew to stay out of; it was once a great city to live in, especially under the "Willie Don Schaefer" years and it saddens me greatly to see what Baltimore has become.
While he was in no way perfect or without controversies, Schaefer was in many ways, a Blue Dog Dem, and was IMO the last great Baltimore Mayor and he did a lot to revitalize the city, bring back some pride and really did a lot to make it "Charm City".
A true story about "Willie Don". My brother and SIL moved from MD to PA when Schaefer was MD State Comptroller. But they got several threatening letters from the MD State comptroller’s office stating that they owed back MD taxes on the income they had earned in and had paid taxes to PA AFTER they moved to PA. They also got threatening letters from the MD DMV saying that their vehicle had an insurance lapse, which they didn't as they'd turn in the MD tags and didn't cancel their MD insurance until afterwards. After months of going back and forth trying to get it straightened out, one day my SIL called the office of the Comptroller and much to her surprise, her phone call went to directly to Donald Schaefer and she spoke to him personally.
After getting the information from her and asking some questions, he told her that this was ridiculous, that this shouldn't ever had happen, and that he would personally get involved to straightened it out for them, and soon enough, the matter did get straightened out and they never got another letter, but for years, even well after Schaefer left office, every year they got a personally signed Christmas card with a hand written note from him, and my brother and SIL also sent Christmas cards to him until the day he died.
I also remember that when we lived in Brooklyn and Schaefer was first elected as mayor in around 1976: that my father and many other residents complained numerous times to the city sanitation department and to no avail, about the city trash pickup. The city trash collectors were only half emptying some of the trash cans, and some were not even being picked up at all and then they were, they were tossing some of the half empty trash cans and the empty ones back into the alleyway instead of putting them back, damaging them and in some cases running over them with their trash trucks and also spreading trash all over the alley.
One day my father got fed up and called the mayor's office and spoke to Mayor Schaefer about the problem and the lack of response he and others were getting from the Sanitation Department.
About a week later, Schaefer personally drove to our alley on trash day, parked his car and waited to observe firsthand what was happening. And what he saw disgusted him as he personally called my father and several others who had complained. I don't know what he did, but we never had a problem with the trash pickup after that.
Baltimurder or Balti-Mordor