According to a new report, Salisbury, a small city in Maryland's Eastern Shore, is one of the top five of most dangerous places to live in the country.
In cities with populations of more than 25,000 people, the website Neighborhood Scout places Salisbury fourth as most dangerous place to live in the country. Salisbury comes in behind Saginaw, Mich., Chester, Pa. and Las Vegas Nev.
According to the annual report, the chances of being the victim of a violent crime in Salisbury are 1 in 42, drastically higher than the state's average, which is 1 in 159.
In recent years, Salisbury has been battling a large uptick in gang-related violence, crime, and prostitution, but city officials say that crime has actually gone down slightly in the last year, and point to the city's 2010 award as an All-American City -- an honor awarded by the National Civic League.
Still, some folks in this little community of just 28,000 people are shocked and outraged by the report that says Salisbury is only safer than just 2 percent of cities in America.
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5 comments:
GO FIQURE..Maybe past Gov. William Schaefer was right about the whole eastern shore with his comments way back then ???? HEY Mike McDermott what are your plans to fight this raising problem ??? Thats right you want to scare the public with sex offenders in your back yard to gain votes for your illegal laws you wanted passed this pass year...HOW about the other violent acts being committed by other type of VERY violent criminals in your area's ??? Heck you x lawman you ought to know first hand how to deal with ALL these issues ?? right?? Lets see some action a.s.a.p. or we the voters will remember how you tried to scare us with the boogy man and not go after ALL violent criminals that are ruining our way of life on the whole eastern shore ???
What do you expect? you know who they are, you know where they live, you feed them, give them housing, you all treat them like lil' darlings. then you get mad when they bite you.
Pretty easy to figure out why--Salisbury is about 60% rental housing units, about 40% black and about 20% are at the poverty level. Wonder why?
This is what happens when all the city trash moves here.
Crack down on the slumlords. Some properties have gone to hell so bad they can't charge much rent. So then who moves in? The trash type of people who are forever causing (and enjoy) drama usually because they are drunk and the criminals.
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