kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:35 pm
MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 12:01 pm
kramerica.inc wrote: ↑Mon Aug 16, 2021 10:54 am
There are no areas free from crime in Baltimore. There are few sections that aren't bordered by zones with historically high criminal activity. Everyone is effected. Even those in nice old neighborhoods like Homeland. Why would you want to pay the exorbitant Baltimore City taxes but live in an area where you cant walk your neighborhood at night or a block over? Or have to worry about nonstop property crimes?
That's true in all the surrounding counties too Kram.
There's crime, both property and violent, everywhere, no where is exempt.
But, yeah, there are indeed neighborhoods where it must be hellish to be a resident.
There is not historically high crime in surrounding counties.
Still able to keep your door/cars unlocked at night
In Baltimore City, not so much.
nope, in much of Baltimore County where I live, most folks need their cars locked, certainly experience property crime, and violent crime as well...even in my very wealthy area, break ins are regularly reported...one of my neighbors was even shot. That said, because of how far set back our home is from the road, with no other ingress or agree for a criminal, we have a relatively safe situation, but only because there are more vulnerable homes to choose from before someone would get to us.
But sure, Baltimore City has way too high a crime rate...serious issue. And after a 20 year decline from the early 90's, the crime rate has increased again, particularly since Freddie Gray in 2015.
It's not ok.
And higher property taxes are certainly not the way to generate the funds necessary to afford better social services and better policing for the most crime ridden neighborhoods. And it's not going to get hugely better without such funding, though I think this Mayor seems to have his head screwed on straight, so fingers crossed that he's an improvement on some of the corruption and incompetence we've seen for a bunch of cycles.
We have a structural funding problem in Maryland, like many states, in which poverty is largely ghettoized and funding flows from real estate taxes to the jurisdictions least in need of government support.