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Death In The City

Posted by: David Gest

20 January 2006 - 9:00am

There were 269 murders in Baltimore City in 2005, after a 1999 campaign promise by Mayor Martin O'Malley to reduce the number to 175. What do so many homicides do to a city's psyche?

"For most of the city's residents, 269 is just a number, a figure to compare and contrast to other years, other cities. But to the families of the victims, it's 269 men, women, and children whose lives were ended as a part of the violence that still holds our city captive no matter how many Starbucks open. And every year, people look for answers to why the violence continues."

Full Story: Murder by Numbers
Source: Baltimore City Paper, January 18, 2006
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The areas where we have severe blight and indications of more blight to come are basically the same as they ever were. How in the world are we ever going to move our community development selves into an alternative future that thinks differently about the challenges we face in our cities and low-income suburban and rural communities?
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