Last week, I wrote an article titled Baltimore Millennials’ “City Life” Narrative Starts To Crack. It appears the crack in the narrative is much larger than we thought. What’s developing in Baltimore is called the ‘Ferguson Effect’. This is a theory where the increased scrutiny of police post 2014 death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Trayvon Martin in Florida will lead to higher crime rates. Baltimore is turning this theory into a reality, as the city descends into chaos before the summer start. The rapid deterioration of Baltimore in 2017 has caught the linear mindset of the millennials’ off guard, who thought gentrification was right around the corner.
The Baltimore Sun Newspaper projects 409 homicides this year, which is a 20-yr high.
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3 comments:
Lock and load...bye bye thugs.
I bet charm city still loses to chicago.
Joe, need to stop linking to this guy. He doesn't employ any nuance re: his Baltimore analysis. The drop in population currently is being driven by a huge swath of poor & minority populations flocking to the cheaper suburbs while gentrifying areas like Fed, Fells, Canton, Locust Point, Mt. Vernon, etc all continue to see influxes of what we'd call "yuppies." This guy from the linked article can't see past his own confirmation bias apparently.
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