The following link is probably one of the most comprehensive looks at Baltimore's homicide rate in recent history. Written by a former editor of mine who runs the "Murder Ink" column in City Paper, the piece is stat-heavy but still very insightful:
Bloodletting: Can Anything Be Done to Bring Baltimore's Homicide Rate Down?
I always feel hopeful at the beginning of the year, but then again Baltimore's first murder of 2008 did occur on Jan. 1 at 12:02 a.m.
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I don't live in Baltimore anymore, but I read Murder Ink like it's my job. There were 7 murders in the first 7 days of 2007. 2008's stats are way behind 2007's. I joked with Chip the other day about why it changed all of a sudden. The truth is, I'm just waiting for something big to happen (i.e. the discovery of 22 bodies in vacants). The criminals don't care that it's 2008 now; they haven't really stopped killing. We just haven't found the bodies yet.
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