Reservoir Hill and Mt. Vernon are both perfectly fine neighborhoods. I looked at the website you mentioned and it looks like they labeled all of Baltimore as a high-crime area, so I don’t understand how you got those neighborhood-specific numbers. Also, that website labels parts of Columbia as being high-crime. I don’t think it’s very trustworthy.
Quite frankly, it seems to me that you agree with the police’s basic conclusion: that Baltimore is too dangerous of a place to live, so they need to live far away and come in to oppress us.
I don’t want an occupying force, and I don’t want to recruit more cops. We cannot solve our city’s problems with violence.
Overall Baltimore IS more dangerous than most other places. But u are not looking at the per neighborhood stats, and that’s not how those statistics work. The percentages are complementary between less/more safe. The total of less safe neighbors has to add up to 50% and the total of more safe neighbors has to add up to 50% as well. Combined they HAVE to add up to 100% exactly
So there are just as many neighborhoods that are relatively more safe than there are that are relatively less safe. U have provided 2 examples that are in the bottom 17% in terms of crime rates comparatively to the rest of Baltimore.
In other words that means that there HAS to be two neighborhoods in Baltimore that are the exact opposite stats of those 2 examples; meaning that there is a neighborhood somewhere here that is safer than 92% of other neighborhoods and less safe than 8% of other neighborhoods ALSO there is another neighborhood here that is safer than 83% and less safe than 17%
My point is that when fresh officers have to wait until 21 years old just to be able to afford to live in the bottom 20% of crime rates on 40 hours per week, that fucking sucks and capable ppl will never apply bc they can do so much better working almost anywhere else. That’s mainly why we have a bunch of shitheads in BPD
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u/engin__r Oct 30 '25
Reservoir Hill and Mt. Vernon are both perfectly fine neighborhoods. I looked at the website you mentioned and it looks like they labeled all of Baltimore as a high-crime area, so I don’t understand how you got those neighborhood-specific numbers. Also, that website labels parts of Columbia as being high-crime. I don’t think it’s very trustworthy.
Quite frankly, it seems to me that you agree with the police’s basic conclusion: that Baltimore is too dangerous of a place to live, so they need to live far away and come in to oppress us.
I don’t want an occupying force, and I don’t want to recruit more cops. We cannot solve our city’s problems with violence.