Though it is perfectly legitimate to express outrage over President Donald Trump's tweet, it's equally legitimate to talk about the failed leadership by Democrats of this once-great city.
Here's how that story starts:"More than 150 people were killed in Maryland's largest city through the end of June marking a 17% increase in homicides over the same period last year." The city, the report added, is on track to post 300 homicides for the fifth year in a row, making Baltimore more dangerous on a per capita basis than Chicago. Baltimore had more murders than New York City last year, despite New York being nearly 12 times its size.
To understand how bad things really are, Baltimore's homicide rate in 2018 was 56 per 100,000 people. That tops 50.3 per 100,000 in El Salvador. "I'm not happy about it, and neither should any citizen in Baltimore be happy," Mayor Bernard C."Jack" Young toldActivist Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Ceasefire prays as she participates in a"sacred space" ritual near where a person was recently murdered on July 28 in Baltimore.Those stories are worth crying about because those murder statistics represent real lives being cut short. Mostly young black lives being cut short.
"It's the small things that you hold so dear, and you robbed me of it," Henderson cried, her message intended for her son's murderer."This is what you took from me. You took the connection that me and my child had."That's worth crying about. It's a story worth covering, too. But the last time the media descended on Baltimore, it covered Freddie Gray's tragic death. It turns out that black lives don't matter to the media unless a white cop is involved.
And then there are the schools, which are among the very worst in the nation. But not for lack of money. Baltimore City Public Schools ranked third among the nation's 100 biggest school systems in spending on a per-student basis in 2017. Baltimore spent $16,184 per pupil, up almost 7 percent from the year before.
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