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This heart-wrenching piece by @AlecMacGillis about violent crime in #Baltimore is worth reading twice. There are so many points here that warrant their own story to fully understand how this city came to this moment.
I'd love a series that would allow Alec & other reporters to pull some of these strands and go deep, as Alec did on segregation & the cancellation of the Red Line, which he touches on here. That long form piece is an essential companion. placesjournal.org/article/the-th…
But there's more to explore about political leadership in the city and how it has failed public safety and law enforcement, about political dynasties that hung on too long w/o building young new leaders, abt a business community that allowed segregation to expand.
About the failure to include Baltimore County as part of an urban/suburban metroplex, and what race has to do with the hard break bet the city and county. About a crumbling school system. Abt the failures of local news reporting for a significant period in the early aughts.
But also about the roadmap out of this. Hopefully those pieces will come. But for now @AlecMacGillis 's piece is bracing & a necessary read.
One that must certainly be written is about the resilience of people in #Baltimore through it all.
