No City for Old Black People (and Whites). (Baltimore: real estate, crime)

[Infinite_heights77]

As I navigate through these ol' broken down streets, allies and avenues, I've witness a major disgust of what I deem as elderly neglect of Black and White Baltimoreans who are living on the streets. They are tired, hungry, sick (physically/mentally), disillusioned and angry. These people say, "the city doesn't care about us!"

As this city tries to move forward and progress (whatever the f*&k that entails). What will happen to this population?

[james777]

That is a good question to think about when you go into a voting booth and vote for the same party that holds power in Baltimore City and has done absolutely nothing for these people for the past four decades.

[feck]

Originally Posted by james777

That is a good question to think about when you go into a voting booth and vote for the same party that holds power in Baltimore City and has done absolutely nothing for these people for the past four decades.

Party politics are not the answer to the problem.
Voting another party in only serves to stroke the
ego of those allegiant to it.

Holding politicians accountable (whomever they are)
is more effective and I don't think the demographic
mentioned in the first post are doing it or organizing
in a way to bring about meaningful change.

[Woodlands]

No City of Old People Period... I was at a traffic light on Fulton and saw an elderly African American Women peering out of her bar covered doorway at a group of men assembled near her stoop.. they were partially on her stoop and partially on the street smoking drinking and cursing.. I could tell by her body language as she gripped her bath robe closed... that she wanted them to move on.. but likely was too afraid or ineffective at getting them to leave their prime real estate where they had assembled to observe the goings on of the day... If that wasn't bad enough she had vacants on either side of her property...


I can only imagine hundreds if not thousands of similar circumstances across sections of the City where elderly folks may feel trapped as prisoners in their own homes.. though when they bought them.. the neighborhoods were likely entirely different.

[debold4215]

We had an elderly person on our block who was beaten severely with a table leg and robbed in his own house. He was helping one of the people who beat him up financially by buying the family food. In the mind of a psychopath this means he has money so she got together with a group of her friends and beat him half to death. He was a long time resident. He ended up in a rehab center for months. We need to stop supporting those politicians who are doing nothing about crime. Everybody who runs for office says they are going to do something about crime but they don't, and the residents in the city keeping tying the hands of the police limiting what they can do. Also look at the statistics which show how quickly criminals are released from prison. A person given 25 years in prison is likely to serve only about 6 years. Three quarters of those who are incarcerated get out of jail and return to a life of crime. But we have only ourselves to blame for electing the same persons over and over again who do little to protect our safety. It is clear from the local elections that we just completed the same pattern of electing officials who say they are going to do something about crime but end up doing nothing.

[LSone]

Originally Posted by debold4215

We had an elderly person on our block who was beaten severely with a table leg and robbed in his own house. He was helping one of the people who beat him up financially by buying the family food. In the mind of a psychopath this means he has money so she got together with a group of her friends and beat him half to death. He was a long time resident. He ended up in a rehab center for months. We need to stop supporting those politicians who are doing nothing about crime. Everybody who runs for office says they are going to do something about crime but they don't, and the residents in the city keeping tying the hands of the police limiting what they can do. Also look at the statistics which show how quickly criminals are released from prison. A person given 25 years in prison is likely to serve only about 6 years. Three quarters of those who are incarcerated get out of jail and return to a life of crime. But we have only ourselves to blame for electing the same persons over and over again who do little to protect our safety. It is clear from the local elections that we just completed the same pattern of electing officials who say they are going to do something about crime but end up doing nothing.

There were good reasons why cops in inner cities needed to be rougher and cracking heads, it WORKS. Now the cops are neutered, so the animals rule the streets of Bmore and you can't even carry a gun to protect yourself. Good luck to everyone.

[anonimuso]

I hate to be the downer in this thread, but who says it's the city's (and by extension our) responsibility to ensure that these people live nice lives in their old age? What did they do to ensure that that happened for themselves? What kinds of decisions did they make? When did they see that their city was heading for the crap heap and decide to stay? Where are their families?

[LSone]

Originally Posted by anonimuso

I hate to be the downer in this thread, but who says it's the city's (and by extension our) responsibility to ensure that these people live nice lives in their old age? What did they do to ensure that that happened for themselves? What kinds of decisions did they make? When did they see that their city was heading for the crap heap and decide to stay? Where are their families?

Some people are too poor to move. Or maybe they don't have family that would take them elsewhere. Many people continue to live where they grew up, especially the older generations. It's all they know. This is not uncommon.

[Baghead]

Are there not community organizers around there?

[fieldm]

Originally Posted by james777

That is a good question to think about when you go into a voting booth and vote for the same party that holds power in Baltimore City and has done absolutely nothing for these people for the past four decades.

So Republican cities have no homeless people?