https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/01/ba ... americans/
Maybe they should go to Canada!
Baltimore
Re: Baltimore
Racists love to point out what happens to port cities once the port dies and emphasize that the ensuing high crime rates are due to the presence of black people. But the truth is that port cities are often high crime places, with high homicide rates, drug dealing, etc., long before the port dies. The article below mentions that it's part of the DNA of Baltimore, just as with other port cities like New Orleans. Because of their locations and configuration, it's probably more difficult for port cities to change to different industries and identities, but that doesn't matter to those who want to attribute all the flaws of a port city to back up their own racist belief system.
A little bit about the history of crime in Baltimore.
In 1773, when Baltimore was an overgrown village of 5,000, a resident wrote to the newly founded newspaper, The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, to express alarm over "the late frequent robberies." He shuddered over "the nocturnal meetings of hardened villains" and called for street lamps and a constabulary.
Violence is woven into the fabric of Baltimore's history, from its origins as a tobacco port in the 1730s through its flourishing as one of America's great metropolises in the 1800s to its status as a struggling urban center today.
Gunfire has punctuated street life here for two centuries.
The immediate cause of shootings, stabbings and beatings has shifted over the decades - highway robbery. public drunkenness, anti-immigrant mobs, rum running, narcotics dealing - but the bullets have kept flying.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xp ... story.html
A little bit about the history of crime in Baltimore.
In 1773, when Baltimore was an overgrown village of 5,000, a resident wrote to the newly founded newspaper, The Maryland Journal and Baltimore Advertiser, to express alarm over "the late frequent robberies." He shuddered over "the nocturnal meetings of hardened villains" and called for street lamps and a constabulary.
Violence is woven into the fabric of Baltimore's history, from its origins as a tobacco port in the 1730s through its flourishing as one of America's great metropolises in the 1800s to its status as a struggling urban center today.
Gunfire has punctuated street life here for two centuries.
The immediate cause of shootings, stabbings and beatings has shifted over the decades - highway robbery. public drunkenness, anti-immigrant mobs, rum running, narcotics dealing - but the bullets have kept flying.
https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/bs-xp ... story.html
Don't inject Lysol.
Re: Baltimore
More about high crime and Baltimore--in 1858.
On a Wednesday evening, some gunmen approach a house on Bath Street and open fire through the windows, wounding four adults and one child. Among the injured adults is John Hopkins, the nephew of banker and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. The news seems no big deal; it is reported in two paragraphs, above an item entitled. "Anniversary Meeting of the Evangelical Knowledge Society."
A few days later comes an 1858-style carjacking - really a bus-Jacking. Several pistol-toting men take over one of Coleman and Bailey company's new horse-drawn omnibuses on Broadway and spend the day riding around the city making mischief, beating up one man, threatening others with their guns and evading the frantic police.
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!!
If the prevalence of guns comes as a surprise, the back-page advertising offers one explanation. "GUNS GUNS!! GUNS!!!" begins an enthusiastic ad for a gun shop on Pratt Street. "All guns warranted, and as cheap as any other respectable establishment in the United States," concludes another, for a dealer on South Calvert Street.
One familiar consequence of the proliferation of guns is reported in a One-paragraph item on a Tuesday: "A lad named Robert," of Columbia Street, age not given, has been accidentally shot in the face while playing with a pistol along with some pals.
On a Wednesday evening, some gunmen approach a house on Bath Street and open fire through the windows, wounding four adults and one child. Among the injured adults is John Hopkins, the nephew of banker and philanthropist Johns Hopkins. The news seems no big deal; it is reported in two paragraphs, above an item entitled. "Anniversary Meeting of the Evangelical Knowledge Society."
A few days later comes an 1858-style carjacking - really a bus-Jacking. Several pistol-toting men take over one of Coleman and Bailey company's new horse-drawn omnibuses on Broadway and spend the day riding around the city making mischief, beating up one man, threatening others with their guns and evading the frantic police.
GUNS! GUNS!! GUNS!!!
If the prevalence of guns comes as a surprise, the back-page advertising offers one explanation. "GUNS GUNS!! GUNS!!!" begins an enthusiastic ad for a gun shop on Pratt Street. "All guns warranted, and as cheap as any other respectable establishment in the United States," concludes another, for a dealer on South Calvert Street.
One familiar consequence of the proliferation of guns is reported in a One-paragraph item on a Tuesday: "A lad named Robert," of Columbia Street, age not given, has been accidentally shot in the face while playing with a pistol along with some pals.
Don't inject Lysol.