All liberal run sewers with LOTS of gun laws.

For a more true depiction of what's going on, you need to look at not only the HOMICIDES but the SHOOTINGS as well.
Use the total number for a more accurate view.

That's the number that usually gives you the

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Originally posted by tatortodd:
According to heyjackass.com, Shitcago is encroaching on 500 shot & killed (480). 14.5 days into December they have 16 shot & killed so they might clear 500 in the next 16.5 days.

In other words, the Democrat shithole of Baltimore is lagging the Democrat shithole of Chicago.

According to the internet,
Baltimore population: 622,000
Chicago population: 2,690,000

So 300 versus 500 when talking per capita...
Chicago is in trouble.
Baltimore is fucked.

Also keep in mind that Chicago statistics are not always accurate. Numbers are always fudged here, hell, because we're a sanctuary city, there's no telling how many people are actually here. We still have dead people voting......sometimes twice

They did it! This proves the city needs...more gun control.

https://www.baltimoresun.com/n...-20190101-story.html

17-year-old killed in Baltimore on New Year's Eve brings city's 2018 murder count to 309

by Jim Joiner
Jan 1, 2019 9:45AM

A 17-year-old boy became Baltimore's last murder victim of 2018 late New Year’s Eve, increasing the year’s overall homicide toll to 309.

Meanwhile, the new year got off to a bloody start amid a spate of non-fatal shootings that left seven people injured in the waning hours of 2018 and the early moments of 2019.

The fatality was reported just after 10 p.m. Monday. Police said officers were sent to the 4500 block of Green Rose Lane to investigate a reported shooting and found the teenager suffering from apparent gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Police had not released his name as of Tuesday afternoon.

The first reported shooting victim of the new year was also a teen — a 14-year-old boy. Police said they were called to the intersection of Light and Lee streets at about 12:12 a.m. to investigate a shooting and found the teenager suffering from a graze wound to the head. He was transported to an area hospital for treatment.

Additionally, officers responded at about 1:43 a.m. to a hospital for a report of a walk-in victim and found an adult male suffering from a gunshot wound to the leg, police said. Police said it was unclear where that incident occurred.

Police reported several other non-fatal shootings in the final hours of 2018. In the Western District around 10:08 p.m., officers responded to the 700 block of Whitmore Avenue and found a 52-year-old man with a gunshot wound.

Around the same time, police said a 28-year-old man was found suffering from gunshot wounds in the 2800 block of Spring Hill Avenue. Then, at about 10:12 p.m., police found two men with gunshot wounds in the 1300 block of Harford Road.

They were all transported to area hospitals for treatment.

At about 11:11 p.m., officers responded to an area hospital for a report of a walk-in shooting victim and found an adult male with a gunshot wound to the arm. Police said he was in critical condition Tuesday and unable to inform detectives where the incident occurred.

Police asked anyone with information about the shootings to contact them at 410-396-2221. Those who wish to remain anonymous can utilize the Metro Crime Stoppers tip line, at 1-866-7LOCKUP. People can also submit a tip by texting 443-902-4824.

Police also reported that amid New Year’s festivities in Baltimore, a 44-year-old man was arrested on gun charges after officers saw him firing a gun in the air shortly after midnight in the 1200 block of N. Luzerne Avenue.

Gary Watts, 44, was arrested on various gun charges, and police said they seized a loaded .44 Mag revolver, a loaded 9 mm handgun with “an obliterated serial number,” and a loaded assault rifle. He was transported to Central Booking, police said. No information or attorney was listed online as of Tuesday afternoon.

2007 shooting becomes 2018 homicide

Also Tuesday, police announced that the November death of a man shot 11 years ago in Baltimore has been ruled a homicide by the state medical examiner — an addition that boosted the overall 2018 homicide count to 309.

Police said Tuesday that Clinton Anderson died Nov. 10 at the Overlea Health and Rehabilitation Center. Anderson had been shot on June 12, 2007, in the 2000 block of E. Hoffman St. He was 37 at the time.

Police said following his death an autopsy was performed, and last month the medical examiner determined Anderson died as a result of the 2007 shooting. His death is recorded as a 2018 homicide, according to police.

Police said Jamal Smith, who was 18 at the time of the shooting, and Jessie Lynch, who was 26, were arrested. Smith was sentenced to life in prison for attempted first-degree murder and a gun violation, according to online records. Police said Lynch was sentenced to 20 years. Online records indicate Smith is currently at the North Branch Correctional Institution in Cumberland.


This story has been updated.

Also from today's Sun, but the opinion page:

https://www.baltimoresun.com/n...-20181220-story.html

Gun buybacks don't work, Baltimore

by Max Meizlish
Jan 1, 2019 6AM

When the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) announced its December gun buyback program, some Baltimore residents surely cheered with great enthusiasm at the opportunity to exchange their firearms and high-capacity magazines for cash. Others, however, likely saw an opportunity to lawfully game the system at the taxpayer’s expense.

Here’s how.

According to the BPD, any Baltimore City resident in possession of a firearm or high-capacity magazine was eligible to participate in December’s buyback program. But the program’s buyback offerings were ripe for abuse — and indeed, it is likely that some will be again if the city fails to learn from its obvious mistake.

At issue is the BPD’s offer to pay out $25 to any city resident who brings in a high-capacity magazine. For believers in gun buyback programs, that exchange rate probably sounded reasonable, if not encouraging. Regardless, a quick search shows that many high-capacity magazines can be purchased for just $9 to $15 online. See what is wrong here? Anyone looking for a quick payday need not look any further; the City of Baltimore was apparently ready and eager to double their money at the taxpayer’s expense. Just show up, drop off your goods, collect your cash and be on your way. It was that easy.

Supporters of the buyback program might argue that BPD limited payouts to just two high-capacity magazines per person. But someone interested in leveraging loopholes within the system — of which there were many — would have been quick to offer any kid on the street a quick buck to take their high-capacity magazine and exchange it on their behalf. Many in the pro-gun control movement have practically raised arms themselves over straw purchases in which criminals barred from buying firearms pay others to buy them on their behalf. Well, in this case, BPD was unknowingly incentivizing “straw returns” that may have helped line the pockets of anyone conniving enough to take advantage of the city’s oversight. The math was simple. This policy just did not add up.

While we are at it, before the buyback was over, there were already reports of at least one Baltimore City resident publicly boasting that she intended to take the money BPD offered for her 9mm handgun to buy what one shocked reporter described as “a bigger weapon!” Surely, if BPD’s objective was to get more guns off the streets of Baltimore, offering $200 for what is practically the down payment on someone’s next firearm is hardly the way to go at it. And yet, here we are.

Gun buyback programs can also offer regular, everyday people a quick and easy way to sell their old guns that simply no longer work. These are not criminals who would otherwise use their firearms in the commission of a crime so much as they are your elderly grandmother who simply does not want to keep around your grandfather’s relic of a pistol around the house.

There is no arguing whether BPD’s gun buyback program was well-intentioned. It certainly was. But its merits nevertheless warrant additional scrutiny. Time and time again, cities seeking to rid their streets of crime have turned to buyback programs to show their communities that they are doing something, anything to fix the problem before them. But buybacks, especially those that incentivize the purchase of the very items being bought back, have a questionable record of success to say the least.

By offering cash payments, particularly for low-cost high-capacity magazines, the city’s buyback program may very well have produced some seriously unintended and costly consequences. Indeed, some nefarious and unscrupulous actors will likely take advantage of the city’s unforced error if such a program is ever again executed. It is therefore incumbent upon Mayor Pugh to right these wrongs and commit to rethinking future buyback programs before more undue damage is done.

Perhaps instead of doling out dollars to support these buybacks, Baltimore City’s elected officials could find a way to better support law enforcement and increase the number of officers patrolling the city’s streets. Tried and true policing produces results. Misguided and poorly executed buybacks do not.


Max Meizlish is a Baltimore native and policy analyst working in Washington, D.C. His email is max.meizlish@gmail.com.

I think it’s fabulous that the denizens of that shithole libtard city are gaming the gamers. And that the gamers are too arrogant to accept this is the case means more money wasted in a vicious cycle.

I'm currently in Virginia.
I'm happy to report that I made it out of Baltimore alive....