And Bloodymore had 318 (275 by firearm) in 2016 with a population of 600k
That leaves 118 for 6 million
3/4 of which happen in PG.
And Bloodymore had 318 (275 by firearm) in 2016 with a population of 600k
That leaves 118 for 6 million
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My math isn't good but that's just messed up mayoralship not governance
As for "drug overdoses and violence in the same areas." Appalachia and Cumberland have a huge opiate problem. Baltimore has had a high murder rate since 1800s. What makes pockets of Chicago, Baltimore, and New Orleans special? Is it drugs, or pockets of culture that simply do not value life and shoot people over grudges?
The same holds true in many states. You have brutal poverty, meth and heroin in places like rural MO, TN and KS yet folks don't walk up to other dealers and shoot them in the head. But then you go to KCMO or Memphis and it's wholesale violence.
It's not drugs, it's not poverty and it's not skin color. It's urban violence culture that adds the key ingredient.
More number play. If we take our firearm-related suicide number, divide in half to hypothetically project firearm-related homicides, Maryland goes to approx 6.3 firearm-related deaths per 100,000, putting us at 6th lowest in the US. This would be behind Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, and Connecticut, and just ahead of Minnesota. I doubt that this is something that we can achieve if there is an ingrained culture of violence (as Traveler suggests) in Baltimore and parts of PG county. But we can likely improve/lower our overall numbers if we focused on breaking the cycle of violence vs measures with a diminishing marginal benefit.