Baltimore Maryland West Side Hoods - America’s 3rd Most Violent City

Today we are in Baltimore, Maryland known locally and affectionately as Bodymore, Murderland. This place continuously ranks at the top or close to it for being one of America’s most dangerous cities. Recently it has been ranked as America’s 3rd most violent city as it has a violent crime rate of 2,003 (per 100,000 people) putting it right behind Detroit and St. Louis respectively. Baltimore hasn’t always been this bad. In fact it was a thriving city, once a major manufacturing mecca and a transportation hub, home to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, America’s first railroad. Baltimore’s Inner Harbor was once the second leading port of entry for immigrants to the United States, right behind Ellis Island. The city reached it’s peak population in 1950 at 950,000 people. Today the population sits a little over half that amount at 570,000 and it keeps dropping. Corruption, crime, drug addiction, poverty, blight... whatever urban or social issues you can mention are rife in Ba