Big city crime

The claim has been made that America suffering from systemic racism. That claim can be challenged by looking at Baltimore. The city is only 27% white and these people live mostly in one area much like Chicago where the Blacks live mostly in one area. The Baltimore police department is 45% white and that percentage is declining every year. The Baltimore city council 33% white. The mayor, police chief and commissioner are all Black. Baltimore high school students perform at grade school levels. Murder rates are second highest in the nation just behind St Louis. The three big problems facing Baltimore today are high crime, high taxes and poverty and poor education. Here is a quote from the liberal magazine, The Nation. Baltimore’s decline isn’t an accident. It took decades of government intervention and hundreds of millions of dollars. Here is a report from the conservative magazine, The National Review. Baltimore Suffers after Decades of Mismanagement.