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 Baltimore. Hopefully we can see reductions in these things so the city can get back to growing.

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[wandererkenshin]

This not the American dream this is the American nightmare.😢😢

[leeb.]

The architecture is really beautiful on most of those old buildings. It’s a shame they were never restored. Lots of grown men standing around doing nothing. Baltimore was once one of America’s greatest cities, but there are different people living there now, so this is the result.

[benitosez]

I been living in Baltimore for 23 years now. Baltimore has many great neighborhoods and a lot of potential, but the next street over you run into this. Crack, heroin, Fentanyl and now Tranq is destroying these once beautiful and historic cities.

[anthonytripp]

Baltimore row houses were famous for their beauty. Such a shame to see such beautiful architecture decaying.

[fingersclementine]

I find it ASTOUNDING!!! How NO one else has noticed that the only establishments that are still currently in operation in a basically impoverished community are liquor stores and churches. Like if said multiple times we feel hopeless. And that’s not a way to live.

[shortliner]

We used to get steamed crabs and fried oysters at Bay Island Seafood on W. Pratt St. back in the '60s and '70s. They had delicious seafood and you could smell the seafood seasoning a couple blocks away. My aunt and uncle lived all around that area back then.

[betsygarcia]

I grew up right outside of Baltimore city but I go nowhere near there now. Even the inner harbor isn't safe anymore. This is years and years of corruption, gangs and drugs. I feel sorry for the older people who don't have the choice of leaving.

[pillsber]

My father was a scientist many years ago and on a multi-year project analyzing trace metals in livers. They received the bulk of their livers from murder victims from this area in Baltimore. He told me at the time he didn't think it was possible for any place in the united states to have a higher murder rate.

[wucbbnq]

A long time ago it was nice. Row houses modeled after the ones in England and elsewhere in Europe. Sadly its not just Baltimore where this architecture has been ruined.

[emilyspector]

I see some of this and i hear “Omar comin’ yo”! Husband was born and raised in Baltimore, I’m from Chicago and I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what my home city looks like….

[BerndLercher]

Realizing the fact that at least 300 people die every year from homicides in a town of 750, 000 people is very sad. Every year!

[meannormajean]

How depressing to see this going on in just about every State now.

[obxmay]

We lived in west Baltimore (10 Hills) for about 6 years. I worked downtown in the late 90s. Inner Harbor, Gallery Mall, restaurants, all bustling with busy weekends at the Inner Harbour filled with tourists. Flash forward to this past July. Took my son to an Orioles game then dinner afterwards. The inner harbor is all but closed up and there are kids running around unsupervised all over the place. We ate at Chipotle near the harbor and kids would come in and out just making a total scene. No parents or cops to be found. It was bizarre. So glad we moved far away from Baltimore back in 2003. I hope they can get things turned around.

[martinavaslovik]

I could not afford the ammo to live there.

[OwenLoney]

Excellent video tour of the scary no-go areas of Baltimore West Side ghetto, slum, hoods ! Gangs, drug deals, urban decay, no-go zone particularly at night !

[millwrightkadervis]

Not born in Baltimore but went to bible college there and lived around Belair Rd.for 20 or so years. We used to do outreach all around the city including the west side. We knocked on doors in the Gilmor, Saratoga. West Fayette, Fulton, Monroe areas. Some of the most profound and impactful times in my life.

[wokeeye]

I went to Baltimore last summer. Mainly for the used book stores. Saw some urban blight on my way between one store to the next. The book stores were something else. Stacks of old leather books stuffed in every conceivable corner of a dingy smelly old room. The prices? 5 times the market price for most things. Yes. In this poor city, the bookshop owners think they will get rockefellers to come in.

[avril]

I visited Baltimore some 20 years ago. Walked freely. Loved the architecture, and now desperately sad to see those beautiful terraces despoiled and windowless, drug addicts everywhere, mess and garbage too. What is wrong with America ? I doubt that I would feel safe anywhere now

[steveballmersbaldspot.]

This is what corruption, mismanagement and lack of accountability does to a city.

[ryanh]

I wonder why a lot of the mid Atlantic cities like Newark, Jersey City, Yonkers, and the NYC boroughs have been improving in the last 20 years but places like B-More and Philly have not.