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Not a whole lot of activity only 1 shooting in 2 days.
Slowest start to a month for the whole year as well.
Jan. - 46
Feb. - 18
March- 13
April - 28 May - 9
Wait I’m confused. You gave the month totals? So Philly had 46 in January and just shot down to 18 in Feb? Or are you comparing Feb 1 - Feb 5 to May 1 - May 5?
Wait I’m confused. You gave the month totals? So Philly had 46 in January and just shot down to 18 in Feb? Or are you comparing Feb 1 - Feb 5 to May 1 - May 5?
That only adds up to 114 but Philly does seem like it's having a cool down period compared to last yr.. but I can see it catching back up during the summer
Wait I’m confused. You gave the month totals? So Philly had 46 in January and just shot down to 18 in Feb? Or are you comparing Feb 1 - Feb 5 to May 1 - May 5?
Yes, small sample size but it is indicative of crime going down.
Chester: 4 as of April 4th
Harrisburg: 10 as of April 5th
York: 8 as of April 14th.
Camden: 3 as of April 21st
Trenton: 10 of of May 1st
It seems that Camden has really turned a new leaf. They might end up with a similar or even slightly lower homicide rate than my sleepy Virginia mountain town lol.
It’s almost to overstate how pervasive crime is in baltimore. Someone just got shot a few block north of me and at the hippodrome downtown, I just drove by there. Both have happened i the last 25 minutes. I drive by a shooting scene at least once every ~10-14 days.
Baltimore had more Homicides than New England recently too. The crime and blight is hard to overstate if I’m describing to someone from New England. I just say it really is the wire (remember the wire included some more suburban part of NW NE and South Baltimore)
You aren't lying. My first and only time actually staying in Baltimore (not passing through) was a couple years ago when I had a conference at the Renaissance downtown. Of course the whole harbor area was cool and we walked around with no worries. But I wanted to venture off so I took my rental one evening and drove around and couldn't believe how it looked worse than the Wire. I kept thinking a car was going to fly out between those alleys and tbone me. As it got darker it felt like an anything goes area. Then I remembered I had virginia plates on my rental and decided to get out of the hoods I was rolling through and back to the hotel.
I really feel for the people who don't have a way out of living in those rundown areas. Baltimore needs to raze the rowhomes and put parks or urban farms in its place. Something has to be done to them.
New Orleans - 100
Baton Rouge - 35
Jefferson Parish - 17
Shreveport - 17
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