Homicide Rates In Baltimore Are So High Residents Could Claim U.S. Asylum thefederalist.com/2019/08/01/bal…
"The three most recently departed mayors have left in disgrace. One was convicted of fraud that involved stealing gift cards from needy families, and another is under active investigation for embezzling government funds."
"A local Baltimore Fox affiliate attempted to shine a light... using an “unfiltered” look at the city with recently ousted Mayor Catherine Pugh. “Whoa, you can smell the rats,” Pugh said during the program as a camera crew followed her around the streets of the decaying city."
"Blue light districts” literally mark the neighborhoods where crime and violence are known to be the highest. Many of the tell-tale flashing blue lights appear just steps from Baltimore’s famed downtown Inner Harbor."
"Nearly everyone I knew while living in Baltimore was personally touched by crime and violence at one point or another. Many friends were mugged, attacked, and even shot in crimes the police never solved."
"[The rats] are bold, and the size of house cats; they do not live in the shadows of night in the subway tracks like they do in NYC. They wander the trash-laden streets at all hours, posing a risk of animal attack and disease spread at an alarming rate."
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