Donald Trump in recent days has repeatedly attacked the city of Baltimore for its very low quality of life, denouncing it as "rodent-infested" and noting it has a very, very high homicide rate.
It's difficult to find reliable stats on Baltimore's rodent population per capita, but we can consult the FBI crime data on Baltimore's homicide rate. When it comes to Baltimore being a haven of appalling violent crime, Trump's not wrong.
The most recent homicide data from the FBI (2017) shows the city of Baltimore with a homicide rate of 55.8 per 100,000 population.That's a homicide rate comparable to El Salvador (60 per 100,000) and Venezuela (56 per 100,000). Baltimore has more homicides per capita than Honduras, Guatemala, South Africa, and Brazil.
In other words, Baltimore's homicide problem is worse than those in many of the world's most violent countries.
In contrast, the US homicide rate in 2017 was 5.3 per 100,000 making Baltimore homicide rate ten times larger than that in the US overall.
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Not one Democrat politician in Maryland has come forth and said they need to do a better job with crime and poverty,all they have done is bash the president.Shows they don’t care about you in the least.
ReplyDeleteProof Baltimore does not support the Police and Judges are very soft on criminals.
ReplyDeletenobody cares, the people in baltimore like living like that because if they didn`t they would just leave, it`s a free country they can go wherever they want and still get their foodstamps and welfare and free healthcare etc. they only people bitching about the living conditions in baltimore are people who don`t live there, and if you don`t live there why should you care, leave those people alone let them live the way they like living. even their rep in congress Mr. cummings says it`s a great place so let those people live the way they like living.
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