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Whatever you think of Trump's tweets, Baltimore has severe problems. The most pressing of which is a dramatic explosion in its crime rate, one almost no other city in the country has experienced. Something the NYT called a "tragedy" just this March. nytimes.com/2019/03/12/mag…
The Gray Lady talked about "the crackup of an American city." The Washington Post framed the rising crime rate as an "open season for killing." washingtonpost.com/investigations…
An open season for killing? It's not an unfair description when you have the highest homicide rate and second-worst crime rate of the nation's largest cities. baltimoresun.com/news/crime/bs-…
From the Economist a couple of years ago: "An exceptionally murderous city."
economist.com/united-states/…
You get the idea. Execrate Trump's tweets all you want. Don't excuse Baltimore to do it.
Heck, I didn’t even mention all the corruption. Mayors resigning. Mayors going to jail. Mayors who resigned and went to jail becoming mayor again. That thing with the books recently.
Fond as I am of the city of my birth, there’s no denying it has, let’s say, issues.
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