Baltimore Is Falling!! An Interview with a Baltimore Native, Part 1

Are we seeing the demise of Baltimore? Is there anything we can do to make things better. One thing we can't do is NOTHING! Or maybe, just maybe, gentrification will save the day.

President Trump has called Baltimore “Rat Infested”. I wish that that was the only problem facing this city. In our quest to get the real story of life in Baltimore, we interviewed someone who knows this city from front to back. This person is a homeowner, parent, grandparent, wife, and has been successful in her career. She has The Wire. 

With just over 600,000 residents, the city hit a historically high homicide rate of about 57 per 100,000 people after recent relentless gunfire saw eight people shot — three fatally — in one day and nine others — one fatally — another day.

The new rate eclipses that of 1993, when the city had a record 353 killings but was much more populous before years of population exodus.

By contrast, New York City, with more than 8 million residents, had 306 homicides through Dec. 15.

The total is up from 309 in 2018 and matches the 342 killings tallied in 2017 and 2015, the year when the city’s homicide rate suddenly spiked.