As Gomer Pyle would say: “Surprise, surprise, surprise”.
The Baltimore Sun reports that Baltimore has logged 96 homicides so far this year … a 30% increase over last year.
To put that number in perspective:
Last year, Baltimore’s murder rate was 5th in the country … a rate higher than Chicago’s; trailing only Detroit, New Orleans, Newark and St. Louis.
During the same period, New York City logged 54 murders.
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Here’s a rhetorical question: What’s behind the surge?
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