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.
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.
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.
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.
Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia just to name a few.. Massive drug problems with high murder rates. All democratic run cities. There's no coincidences.
@@АлексейКанаев-р8х That was all about that lead paint nonsense which I have always felt was overblown. I was one of nine children that were raised in rental homes that were always paint with lead paint back then or white paint lead in it. I raised my family in a home that was built-in 19 28 which probably had lead paint in it also and none of my brothers and sisters or my children or myself ever chewed on a damn window sill. It was nonsense and I think it still is.
There could be a social experiment going on in this area to see how long it takes for a bunch of stupid beings to fuck themselves to extinction! Total extinction. Based on what the video shows, it’s almost there.
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.
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.
@@Berlitz81 Google "datahazard substack". It's the blog of a researcher who has put together the BEST demographic crime data I've ever seen. You obviously know the truth. This data is a weapon in your toolbelt no one can argue against.
WOW! Looks like our neighborhoods; Chicago south side, Newark, NJ, Tenderloin district San Francisco, and south Bronx, NY, and parts of So Philly. We've seen it all😂🤣😂🤣
Nothing to do with voting when the world said America be like this 20 years ago. People used to love America now they want no part of it. Due to its people. Now no matter what you either one side or the other... No coming together for a bigger cause. americans needs North Korea leaders to reel y'all back in to become one again.
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….
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.
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.
@@stonecoldsteverharvey7862 Don't forget the projectionist Rethuglicans who contribute nothing to help the people access mental healthcare, healthcare, education, jobs, and assistance where it's needed. Furthermore, don't forget the Rethuglican Landlords who neglect these houses!
It's not just a black thing. Watch videos of poor white neighborhoods and towns. The dumps they live in outnumber urban poverty. The majority of criminals are white too. Look at prison and jail documentaries. Black people don't get the many chances white people get before being locked up.
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.
Ok what do you mean 'for most things'? A well maintained rare book might be worth more, and I have been in bookstores in Baltimore and it's not 5x the price of BMA or amazon. Like you're just making stuff up now.
@@ryanlaslow4796 I have seen the Poems of Cowper from 1820 priced at 200 dollars in one of the stores with no important inscriptions or remarkable bindings. I have seen books there in terrible condition, odd volumes of common titles. They simply priced them that way because they were old or from misreading Internet listings. These are the signs of amateur booksellers.
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.
Definitely not my experience September 2023. City was thriving in that area. People were out and about from Mt Vernon, to Downtown, Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, Canton, Fell's Point out to Locust Point. There were construction cranes in the skyline. There were pockets of new build going on. It seemed to be less than Cleveland, Philly, Chicago, DC, or Detroit, but the city is slowly coming back.
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 !
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
Not everywhere is like that. This is just a section in Baltimore. It was like that when you visited 20 years ago. In fact , the show The Wire took place in West Baltimore
America is great....homeless people everywhere...rampant drug use and over doses...highest crime rates ever...open borders....$34,000,000,000,000 in debt but you give money away...all while the rich greedy elite destroy everything they touch....America is Great!!!!
I lived in Baltimore for 40 years. Went to Sinclair Lane Elementary, then Northeast Middle School, then Lake Clifton. Now I'm in Denver and Denver is looking like they filmed The Wire here! No place is safe from this sort of decay apparently!
Back in the 80s and up into the mid-90s I used to walk from the Baltimore Marina over by the Rusty Scupper Restaurant all the way to Little Italy, Fells Point and Beyond at night with no fear at all. I haven't been to Baltimore in a little over 20 years and I really don't think I would do that now.
Before America spreads Democracy around the world, might want to sort out these backyards first. We got slums in Britain but nothing like this. Its called The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it - George Carlin
@@rl64rl My Grandfather died when I was a little kid so I never got to ask him, can't you focus on the present a bit more or do you like living in the past ?
@@rl64rl Not sure what the past has to do with this content here, Britain paid back Lend-Lease, why are you deflecting from the state of American cities today in the richest country in the world back to the 1930's
Large parts of Washington DC used to look similar to that in the 1980s but not quite this bad. Now every thing is being gentrified and poor people are being pushed out. Baltimore is one of the more if not most run down cities in the USA
I wouldn't live there even if you gave me the house for free. Strange how there's so many nice cars parked everywhere.. Personally, if I had to choose between one or the other, I would rather drive a trash car and live in a nice neighborhood than drive a nice car and live in trash..
Certain demographics still need a car to drive to work, appointments, etc. Public transportation is available in Baltimore but it's quality is similar to the upkeep of the city. Pretty wild how people easily make up judgements and scenarios in their heads regarding certain "demographics" when you literally can't get out of squalor to live in these nice neighborhoods without reliable transportation to work.... and a broke down car or broke down public transportation isn't very reliable.
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.
The slum areas of NYC are vastly better than those in Baltimore, Philly, Detroit etc. There is far less crime, the shops are open, there is less grafitti and buned out deserted houses. Compare areas like the South Bronx or Brownsville to areas like this hell hole. Don't know why.
Gentrification and private/government investments in those cities is the only difference. The government can control any so called dangerous city whenever they see fit.
@@williamrubinstein3442 that is recency bias. places like Bville, S. Bronx, Newark, etc. in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's looked just as bad and were just as dangerous if not more so than baltimore, Philly, etc..
We have our fair share of hoods here in Chicago, but the ones here are not as bad as what you are showing. These areas look horrific. I often ride the 63rd Street bus through the Englewood "hood" to get to work, and some of your footage makes it look like a suburb!
Chicago worst neighborhood’s violence is off the meter tho. I think it gets overlooked bc of how big the city is and the other “safe” areas lowers the overall rate.
6:53 that chinese restaurant has been there at least 35 years. i used to take my white, suburban friends there for pepper steak and shrimp baskets. i may have to go back home and risk my life to eat there again.
This is really disgusting.. I was born in Baltimore and to see the amount of decay, lawlessness, and just filth 😢😢.. It's clear the city does not care and with it looking like this how can the residents care or have any hope at all ?? This is beyond 😢
So many buildings in this city are built from MDF and plasterboard which is then covered with a fascia designed to look like real bricks. I'm afraid this is a metaphor for the whole of the US. Fur coat but no knickers.
At 3:49, there's an eatery/market sign advertising fried chicken and lake trout directly together in the same banner. OK, not a big deal, but I must say in all my travels around the US over decades and decades, I can't recall ever seeing fried chicken and lake trout touted in a combo. Oddly, I now have the craving for a broiled Trout fillet with some lemon-pepper seasoning, a 3 piece crispy fried chicken thigh/leg/breast, and some rice.
As someone who lives in Baltimore it really pains me to see that I have neighbors that live like this. And it makes me frustrated to see that the city government is handing out millions of our tax dollars to developers building apartments in the inner harbor. We have the money to fix this, but the people at the top just don’t care. I do my part and give food and water to the unhoused people living in my neighborhood. I also once had to help someone find a local police station because they’d been assaulted and the cop who took a report left them outside wandering while still bleeding. That incident in particular infuriated me. Hopefully there are enough people out here who care and get involved, because as long as we keep doing that I can see a future where Baltimore is thriving again. ❤
@@SavannahBurris was shocked about how inner Harbor is about to be turned into an Apartment complex aka if you can't afford to stay there, can't access it!!! Not sure why they didn't upgrade the shops instead and have businesses. Going to turn into east Harbor with nowhere to chill out ...
You've obviously have options in your life. They didn't create this. They're caught in it with no way out. There's no structure in cities like this to pull the majority of them out. EVERYTHING has bern cut and defunded.
One thing i don't think people conceptualize, is how unconducive that style of stoop style row house is to modern life. Most people 1950s - 2008 just did not want that style of house. No yard, nowhere to park, nothing to shield or buffer you from the streets. No wonder so many people, and yes i get it with white flight, but they where not sticking around for that style of casa.
@@New-Adventures Some neighborhoods in Chicago are actually very nice. Mine was. Depends on the type of people that move in. Some people just don't take care of their property and they always have an excuse.
A few minutes away from Annapolis where all the money and decisions are made that have left Bmore out of the conversation for the last 40 plus years. Left to fall in ruin with very little chance of any real revitalization except near the harbor and stadiums which still isn't the greatest feat for a small proximity. Again like Kensington, Bmore is rich with history that has been thrown away and forgotten, a city that has been treated like a Maryland stepchild because the manufacturing went away decades ago and nobody seemed to care then nor do they care now. What makes this country so coldhearted that cities seemingly become ruins of what they once were and money is spread everywhere else in abundance all around it but not where its needed? The politricks don't make sense, you have a cities with a need for jobs but the greed sends the smallest job out of the country (service call numbers, help lines) when you've got folks that can do the same here in their neighborhood. That All American greed will soon be the death of this country if nothing changes for the better for everyone, because there is enough for EVERYBODY TO BE EQUAL.
Wow! I saw a couple of hood memorials but there was one with a whole lot of liquor bottles. Whoever was killed at that spot was well known. Damn shame.
can't help but hear the Theme to the 90's FOX sitcom Roc playing in my head while watching this video. "mama may have, papa may have but God Bless the child that's got his own... that's got his own."
There's was a area here I think near Camden yards not sure I would have to look it up but business owners from somewhere like India but looked American bought a block of abandoned houses. They said every time they tried to start building all there stuff was stolen and vandalized, like workers tools new toilets and sinks everything they had in there and had been robbed by a person coming in during the day so they finally left
Great video. I live outside of NYC (bout 30 miles) and I’m born and raised in Philly in the hood. I’ve always felt a connection with Bmore. Reminds me a lot like Philly too. Shame to see how rough it is. Hopefully one day it’ll be back to being the beautiful city that it use to be 😊
I'm from Europe too and there are place like this all Europe but problem is another in america is second amendment ,, in Europe is not so easy to buy a gun like in usa ,, in usa is more easy to buy a gun that a beer crazy country
The state of Maryland has some of the most strict gun control laws in the US. The criminals ignore the gun laws on the books, with minimal chance of jail time@@manuelsantino8154
Grew up a ten minute drive from the corner of Northern Parkway and Park Heights Avenue, Pimlico neighbohood. You go from safe middle class to urban blight in ten minutes or less. That's Baltimore. Such a tragedy.
Ultimately, it is a reflection of policies that have encouraged and rewarded irresponsible behavior and disincentivized responsible behavior. People are people and all have sinful natures which can produce evil results.
@@scottw3039Give people free money and reduce the police presence, this what you get. It's not complicated. Oh, and also when fathers don't raise their children.
@@GeronimoPlaz Parents in general. They're the root cause of Baltimore's crime and the rest of the country in general, as well. It *ALL* comes down to parenting. When the parents aren't around, this is what you get. Raise your kids right, teach them.. *OR* don't have kids, at all.
The people who use to live in this area have all moved to Baltimore County. The people who own these properties should be fined for not keeping up their properties. Back in the 60's, 70's and 80's this was a great area. They need to be torn down. 😢
I hope you're strapped when doing this because the wild ones from Baltimore CityDO NOT take kindly to being filmed especially in a car creeping down the road with a camera pointing at them. Good luck! Stay vigilant.
As a musician, I passed through Baltimore in about 2004 playing music. Town was generally much safer then, but we passed through some pretty rough areas that gave me concerns. Now, I wouldn't get near that place.
@@_Some0nerandom_actually South Africa kicked most whites out in 1997 I believe so it’s been black ran know for a hot minute..no excuse for the current fate of that nation, they just can’t have a successful country 😂🎉
Over the years, Baltimore has deteriorated to what you see today. The City Officials have been putting more money into the downtown area than they have in other parts of the city. This is happening everywhere in the United States of America.
I have watched the whole video and not even one part of the city is concerned human beings lives there. No pride of where you live to take care of it. Unbelievable
The first time I been to tge USA I wasnt expecting to see so many homeless people, poverty and violence. I say violence bc we heard gunshots at night. This was in Washington DC. First I thaught its some fire crackers but the dude next door told me "Welcome to Washington"
Not trying to be Captain Obvious, but if you are wondering what those letters means at the beginning of the video, they are actually words, and says, "Love your block".
I laughed at the creepy drug-dealing ice cream truck... "Hello?"... that brought back memories. Memories of collapsing houses and corner nodders; of an over-abundance of crack houses, bars full of 2 AM street pissers, liquor outlets, and strip clubs; and of the grey, grey, greyness of tarmac and Formstone. But at least it looks like the city managed to get rid of all of the holiday ornaments - the plastic bags hanging in the trees - but it looks like the video was shot out of season. I'm in my 50s and grew up in Baltimore. I moved away and back a couple times - to the SF Bay area and to Santa Fe. It and family kept sucking me back like a black hole. I finally moved away about seven years ago, and don't miss it. Yea, I miss my friends and a couple great restaurants but otherwise it's horrible. As beautiful as the housing stock may appear and as 'cool' as it has become for artists (basically, MICA students stranded by no employment potential), Baltimore has a never ending supply of potential which it will never meet. It's the Sisyphus of cities. Unfortunately, I moved to Portland Oregon (for work) and it's quickly showing Baltimore-like tendencies, even in the suburb that I am in. Then again, one of Portland's long-time city council leaders, Jo Ann Hardesty (recently voted out), was a Baltimorean. But until America solves poverty and its education system (across the US, not just in metro areas), none of that is going away anywhere. I almost feel like we need another contract with America - but this time not Republicans signing hit notices on everyone else's morals. Maybe this time everyone in America get's, I don't know, $100K and promises to go to school, work, join the military or Peace Corps - but never come back to the trough (except in the cases established by no-fault unemployment or other SSA-defined issues as established by the populace). If you can't pull yourself up with that, you agree to no longer burden the tax system with yourself - leech off your relatives, move to Mexico and lose your passport, or something. Invest the $100K in yourself or your family, neighborhoods can pool their resources, you can give it away to the charity you trust most, or you can give it back to Uncle Sam if you don't trust anyone. Everyone gets the same amount (kids get a trust fund combo, so parents don't piss ALL of their money away - money only spendable on healthy food, clothes, healthcare (including dental, psych, and vision/hearing), school/after school learning, and bikes or mass transit passes) so there's no bickering, everyone shut's up and focuses on THEIR problems, not everyone else's. But no exceptions after that. If you bought a Bentley with it but your recreational heroine use gets the better of you, that's it - your an addict with an expensive car in perpetuity or until you get your shit together. If your parents cheat you out of it, well kill your parents and get the life insurance to recoup your loss. We have to stop funding no-win situations though, which includes large swathes of Baltimore and other communities.
Maybe we need to have an honest conversation about human differences. Violence matters and businesses cant open when they are robbed until they shut down. Maybe we need to close our borders like Israel does and curtail the drugs from pouring in. Maybe they need to stop handing out free needles/crack pipes and fund decent treatment centers. All the places you speak about have been liberal, democrat run areas for over 50 years. Can you not see that connection? Though both parties are run by the same people now days. The biggest factor in all of this is human diversity. Different people's act differently, period. They have vastly different values and that plays out in how their societies are built. Google "Datahazard Substack" it's the blog of an analytical researcher who has put together the most thorough data on murder and violent crime in America. Until we can be honest about certain things as a society, nothing will change, and only get worse.
@@Faustian_Spirit Sowell got a lot of things right (but not all), but I don't buy the neo-liberal mash. Your walls will keep out people. People are not the problem. Market-centrification is the problem, business focus is the problem, the answer is not for everyone to go out and find their gig or become an entrepreneur (which Baltimore has been hammering home for twenty years - I know because I spent 20+ years in the community serving nonprofit sector while living there). Your example of not handing out free needles misses the point - the point of doing that was to save lives, to stop the spread of AIDS and other diseases; so your point is to stop doing that and let them all die? Yea, maybe, because of their drug use, they will kill themselves, but your choice is to do it in such a less civil way. So where's your civility? That's what has disappeared from this country, civility. Israel doesn't build walls to curtail drugs, not sure where you got that or if it's just some cutesy misinformation wording. Israel builds walls to keep out violence that IT fomented. I believe in a hard line on drugs, but not the prison system we have. I believe alcohol should be considered a drug. I believe highways are a drug. I believe single family dwelling housing developments are a drug... Why all of this? Because it all has gotten in our way of maintaining an ability to be civil, to relate to others, of forcing us to remember how to be social and polite and mindful, it makes it easier to close the door and ignore.
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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.
o you mean democrat policys?
Like republicans are any damned better!
Next street over is how it was years back try the whole damn city even the out skirts are getting rough
@@brucedick1506 STHU! I don't see the Rethuglicans doing anything for people, except robbing the poor to give to the wealthy!
@@benitosez8538 sucks
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.
Diversity is our strength
I agree
Black on black violence is thru the roof and always has been blacks just keep killing each other kinda a funny fact
Makes you wonder how they're eating doesn't it? I suspect you and I are feeding them
Keep voting liberal
Baltimore row houses were famous for their beauty. Such a shame to see such beautiful architecture decaying.
Diversity is our strength /
Weebay you come at the king you best not miss.
It's like that in Chicago, Philly, St Louis etc... A lot of beautiful houses and architecture decaying.
There are still many row homes in Baltimore that are well kept and beautiful! These neighbourhoods do not define the entire city.
Look at the KIND of people that DESTROY IT!!
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.
I saw the same.
you aren't alone.
Ain’t none you can do…. But leave 😪
If anything else opened it's robbed until it's put out of business. Poverty doesn't create crime, crime creates poverty.
Don't disrespect legend resturant like that
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.
So, what about trace metals, what was the results?
Detroit, Chicago, and Philadelphia just to name a few.. Massive drug problems with high murder rates. All democratic run cities. There's no coincidences.
Diversity is our strength /
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That was all about that lead paint nonsense which I have always felt was overblown. I was one of nine children that were raised in rental homes that were always paint with lead paint back then or white paint lead in it. I raised my family in a home that was built-in 19 28 which probably had lead paint in it also and none of my brothers and sisters or my children or myself ever chewed on a damn window sill. It was nonsense and I think it still is.
There could be a social experiment going on in this area to see how long it takes for a bunch of stupid beings to fuck themselves to extinction! Total extinction. Based on what the video shows, it’s almost there.
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.
Diversity is our strength /
you can still get plenty of crabs in Baltimore...oh wait wrong types of crabs...now you can smell the urine a couple blocks away...
This not the American dream this is the American nightmare.😢😢
Usa was never a dream
This was thanks to years of both deindustrialization and horrendously failed supply side/trickle down economics.
Diversity is our strength /
@@leroi9157the dream is NYC
American dream was never for black people
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.
Diversity is our strength /
More like Kampala, Uganda.
Can you figure out the common feature between the two cities?
@@Berlitz81 Google "datahazard substack". It's the blog of a researcher who has put together the BEST demographic crime data I've ever seen. You obviously know the truth. This data is a weapon in your toolbelt no one can argue against.
@@Berlitz81 ah yes BlaCk PeOplE bAd.
Have the orioles left?
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!
It’s actually worse than that. The population is down to 570,000 and still plummeting. Thanks for watching!
@@ghettomerica this is actually funny 😂😂😂😂
WOW! Looks like our neighborhoods; Chicago south side, Newark, NJ, Tenderloin district San Francisco, and south Bronx, NY, and parts of So Philly. We've seen it all😂🤣😂🤣
@@AleneHill-l2fThe common element of these areas is that they are populated by the same demographic.
Thank God for trees.
I could not afford the ammo to live there.
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It's a lot! 😊 but ya better have it. My Lil friend comes with me everywhere I go especially in the city.
😂😂touché
It's not all bad bruh
How depressing to see this going on in just about every State now.
Keep voting blue, that's what happens lol
Only on blue states
You should feel inclusive, diverse and tolerant.
Nothing to do with voting when the world said America be like this 20 years ago.
People used to love America now they want no part of it. Due to its people.
Now no matter what you either one side or the other... No coming together for a bigger cause.
americans needs North Korea leaders to reel y'all back in to become one again.
@@Quickstepz-OG L take
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….
“Elvira Hancock” was born in Baltimore too. Lol
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.
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.
Even the Jehovah Witnesses no longer risk to knock on any doors. Instead, they stand at street corners 😮😢
This is what corruption, mismanagement and lack of accountability does to a city.
Don’t forget democrats
NO IS NOT ! THIS KIND NEVER WAS GOOD F NOTHING
US is run as a corporate house by current political leaders of both parties.
Voting for Democrats 100% of the time did this.
@@stonecoldsteverharvey7862 Don't forget the projectionist Rethuglicans who contribute nothing to help the people access mental healthcare, healthcare, education, jobs, and assistance where it's needed. Furthermore, don't forget the Rethuglican Landlords who neglect these houses!
Sadly I feel as a black man so many black folks are just COMFORTABLE living like this and do NOT even want to attempt to do better.
You're the first bm called Ken Kenny 😂
It's not just a black thing. Watch videos of poor white neighborhoods and towns. The dumps they live in outnumber urban poverty. The majority of criminals are white too. Look at prison and jail documentaries. Black people don't get the many chances white people get before being locked up.
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.
Ok what do you mean 'for most things'? A well maintained rare book might be worth more, and I have been in bookstores in Baltimore and it's not 5x the price of BMA or amazon. Like you're just making stuff up now.
@@ryanlaslow4796 I have seen the Poems of Cowper from 1820 priced at 200 dollars in one of the stores with no important inscriptions or remarkable bindings. I have seen books there in terrible condition, odd volumes of common titles. They simply priced them that way because they were old or from misreading Internet listings. These are the signs of amateur booksellers.
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.
0% chance. they are "not" i repeat they are not voting for mega candidates here. they vote skin color only.
Diversity is our strength /
It's not close lies!!!
Definitely not my experience September 2023. City was thriving in that area. People were out and about from Mt Vernon, to Downtown, Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, Canton, Fell's Point out to Locust Point. There were construction cranes in the skyline. There were pockets of new build going on. It seemed to be less than Cleveland, Philly, Chicago, DC, or Detroit, but the city is slowly coming back.
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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 !
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
Not everywhere is like that. This is just a section in Baltimore. It was like that when you visited 20 years ago. In fact , the show The Wire took place in West Baltimore
@@madil5974serious organized crime groups in baltimore?
Or just street level gangs?¿
I got those Ts
America is great....homeless people everywhere...rampant drug use and over doses...highest crime rates ever...open borders....$34,000,000,000,000 in debt but you give money away...all while the rich greedy elite destroy everything they touch....America is Great!!!!
ya not everywhere in baltimore is this bad very beautiful and nice places still.
The politicians don’t care. When will the people realize this?
I lived in Baltimore for 40 years. Went to Sinclair Lane Elementary, then Northeast Middle School, then Lake Clifton. Now I'm in Denver and Denver is looking like they filmed The Wire here! No place is safe from this sort of decay apparently!
Grew up close to Baltimore and would go there a lot with my family on day trips…not anymore. We avoid big cities too many negative things happening.
Back in the 80s and up into the mid-90s I used to walk from the Baltimore Marina over by the Rusty Scupper Restaurant all the way to Little Italy, Fells Point and Beyond at night with no fear at all. I haven't been to Baltimore in a little over 20 years and I really don't think I would do that now.
From what I see this country has the largest black population outside Africa.
Before America spreads Democracy around the world, might want to sort out these backyards first. We got slums in Britain but nothing like this. Its called The American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it - George Carlin
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Your grandfathers weren’t complaining when US democracy gave you Lend-Lease, were they?
@@rl64rl My Grandfather died when I was a little kid so I never got to ask him, can't you focus on the present a bit more or do you like living in the past ?
@@danuall5816 It’s an internet search of “the past” that will educate you. Woe unto those that forget history.
@@rl64rl Not sure what the past has to do with this content here, Britain paid back Lend-Lease, why are you deflecting from the state of American cities today in the richest country in the world back to the 1930's
Large parts of Washington DC used to look similar to that in the 1980s but not quite this bad. Now every thing is being gentrified and poor people are being pushed out. Baltimore is one of the more if not most run down cities in the USA
Slums every where in the USA we're alot worse in the 1970s and 1980s than they are now
Not even close to how bad they are today
@forestman2382 I don't think so..... the only thing that's better than the eighties is Hi-def TV and cell phone coverage.
You can be poor and still have a little self respect. I know many very poor who keep homes and sidewalks clean.
I remember Hoboken, NJ in the 70s. Now look at it.
I wouldn't live there even if you gave me the house for free.
Strange how there's so many nice cars parked everywhere..
Personally, if I had to choose between one or the other, I would rather drive a trash car and live in a nice neighborhood than drive a nice car and live in trash..
Certain demographics feel exactly the opposite. It's all Flash and Dash with them
Certain demographics still need a car to drive to work, appointments, etc. Public transportation is available in Baltimore but it's quality is similar to the upkeep of the city. Pretty wild how people easily make up judgements and scenarios in their heads regarding certain "demographics" when you literally can't get out of squalor to live in these nice neighborhoods without reliable transportation to work.... and a broke down car or broke down public transportation isn't very reliable.
@@Cam-vz2zkwest Baltimore hood has all demographics - i guess that you meant to say race? All races exist in west Baltimore - yt, bk, br so chill out
Maybe if another demographic didn’t abondon the city so they can live in the suburbs
Great footage! Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it! Thank you too!
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.
Good Question. Was just talking about this with someone. Thanks for watching.
To answer that! Crooked politicians stealing “Federal Funds”.
The slum areas of NYC are vastly better than those in Baltimore, Philly, Detroit etc. There is far less crime, the shops are open, there is less grafitti and buned out deserted houses. Compare areas like the South Bronx or Brownsville to areas like this hell hole. Don't know why.
Gentrification and private/government investments in those cities is the only difference. The government can control any so called dangerous city whenever they see fit.
@@williamrubinstein3442 that is recency bias. places like Bville, S. Bronx, Newark, etc. in the 80's, 90's, and early 2000's looked just as bad and were just as dangerous if not more so than baltimore, Philly, etc..
We have our fair share of hoods here in Chicago, but the ones here are not as bad as what you are showing. These areas look horrific. I often ride the 63rd Street bus through the Englewood "hood" to get to work, and some of your footage makes it look like a suburb!
Chicago worst neighborhood’s violence is off the meter tho. I think it gets overlooked bc of how big the city is and the other “safe” areas lowers the overall rate.
How do you know thats worse than any part of [Chicago]?
It saddens me to see these rowhouses so rundown. It is beautiful architecture.
They suck booty bro
6:53 that chinese restaurant has been there at least 35 years. i used to take my white, suburban friends there for pepper steak and shrimp baskets. i may have to go back home and risk my life to eat there again.
Why?
@@Cam-vz2zk nostalgia, nigga.
Good luck
Once in awhile, ok. But don’t raise the odds of becoming a statistic by going every month!
It looks closed
This is really disgusting.. I was born in Baltimore and to see the amount of decay, lawlessness, and just filth 😢😢.. It's clear the city does not care and with it looking like this how can the residents care or have any hope at all ?? This is beyond 😢
serious organized crime groups in baltimore?
Or just street level gangs?¿
Whites and their tax dollars have fled.
So many buildings in this city are built from MDF and plasterboard which is then covered with a fascia designed to look like real bricks. I'm afraid this is a metaphor for the whole of the US. Fur coat but no knickers.
Savage 😮😢
Wow!!! I am glad I left Baltimore in the ‘80’s. To be honest it has not changed a bit!
It's changed but only for the worse
Diversity is our strength /
It got worse 😢
Many places have changed for the better, in Baltimore. Only the bad places are focused on because it aligns with the Rethuglican narrative.
@@theresedavis2526 Democrats run the City. What does what a Republican say have to do thousands of vacants and crime?
They probably want $1300 dollars to rent those homes too.😕
Try 2000 to rent. A basement apartment goes for 1300
@@Sean-zr7vs Baltimore is nowhere near that expensive lol
West Baltimore has become a cesspool. I've lived most of my childhood over there and i dont miss it one bit.
If i didn't see the title of the video i would say that this place is somewhere in Latin America.
blacks can't be latino.
Clearly you have not been to LA.
This is really sad if people need places to live and nothing but ruins. This is crazy.
Diversity is our strength /
At 3:49, there's an eatery/market sign advertising fried chicken and lake trout directly together in the same banner. OK, not a big deal, but I must say in all my travels around the US over decades and decades, I can't recall ever seeing fried chicken and lake trout touted in a combo. Oddly, I now have the craving for a broiled Trout fillet with some lemon-pepper seasoning, a 3 piece crispy fried chicken thigh/leg/breast, and some rice.
They just calling it 'trout'....
guess all the freebies didn;t work
I’m moving to Baltimore and opening a plywood and rat trap store. I ought to do pretty well.
I follow several channels from different countries, and as someone here already said, it's depressing to see this happening almost everywhere.
As someone who lives in Baltimore it really pains me to see that I have neighbors that live like this. And it makes me frustrated to see that the city government is handing out millions of our tax dollars to developers building apartments in the inner harbor. We have the money to fix this, but the people at the top just don’t care. I do my part and give food and water to the unhoused people living in my neighborhood. I also once had to help someone find a local police station because they’d been assaulted and the cop who took a report left them outside wandering while still bleeding. That incident in particular infuriated me. Hopefully there are enough people out here who care and get involved, because as long as we keep doing that I can see a future where Baltimore is thriving again. ❤
You are a typical liberal and are responsible for this disaster.
serious organized crime groups in baltimore?
Or just street level gangs?¿
So continue human slavery[ or attempt to end it?]
@@bunk95 ??? genuinely what are you even talking about
@@SavannahBurris was shocked about how inner Harbor is about to be turned into an Apartment complex aka if you can't afford to stay there, can't access it!!! Not sure why they didn't upgrade the shops instead and have businesses. Going to turn into east Harbor with nowhere to chill out ...
I think Baltimore is listed number 17 in the worlds 50 most dangerous cities list
As a native Baltimorean, I my heart swells with pride.
@@jimmyday9536😂😂😂😂
It looks like it was once a beautiful city. So sad
In til it turned black
@@bignuts850 In til ?
Diversity is our strength /
It looks so empty. Where are the people
Yes it was..we would wash our steps 1 or 2 time a week..we had white stones steps pretty and cleaned..we look out for the children than..not now
The saddest thing is that this mess was created by the people who actually live there.
Diversity is our strength /
You've obviously have options in your life. They didn't create this. They're caught in it with no way out. There's no structure in cities like this to pull the majority of them out. EVERYTHING has bern cut and defunded.
@@garymarkham2672 how did they all get on vacation at the same time?
If they like it, I love it.
Don’t be ignorant now Baltimore has been declining like almost every other American city since the 60s these people inherited this
Winter's must be hell for these people.Very sad indeed.
Looks like a beautiful vacation spot..right after our family vacation to Camden
You can see all those hoods were neighbourhoods at one time. Nice old architecture.
Most of the current residents read on a 3rd or 4th grade level so they're not interested in architecture
Black people
@@clarissaturcios2346leave us alone 😢
@@Cam-vz2zk The goddamn landlords aren't interested in architecture, either! Those houses are the landlords' responsibility!
@@clarissaturcios2346 Bigot.
20 years ago, locals never ever comprehended my delight over this city of theirs I shared with them any weekend I swung by there :(
One thing i don't think people conceptualize, is how unconducive that style of stoop style row house is to modern life. Most people 1950s - 2008 just did not want that style of house. No yard, nowhere to park, nothing to shield or buffer you from the streets. No wonder so many people, and yes i get it with white flight, but they where not sticking around for that style of casa.
Exactly. No one wants to live like that unless maybe youre super young. Even then itd be annoying to have no parking at all
It's the European model... no front yard, tiny back "Garden" and using public transit. Just doesn't work in most of the US
Works for horse and buggy, acces to main streets and markets. That appeal is long gone
The Flight is not all White. People regardless of their race will always try to relocate to make a better life.
@@Boddav west Baltimore has a white hood and brown hood section too not just black.
Crazy how the Bronx looked like this in the 70s and 80s and Baltimore looks like this.
New York was cleaned up by Rudy Giuliani.
Imagine what it looked like a hundred years ago. Shame.
The Great Migration North
Clean without black people
I'm so glad that I moved out of the inner city of Baltimore MD and now I live in towns Maryland
The LIQUOR stores appear to be holding their own just fine ...
All owned by Koreans.
You need Liquor to stand this town
Thanks for the street footage. Stay safe out there.
Thank you. I appreciate you tuning in. Thanks for watching.
As a Northwest Side Chicago guy - I'd feel safe there. Yikes.!!!
Why ? Is were you live worser ? Am just curious I’m from England I’ve never seen anything like this befor
@@New-Adventures Some neighborhoods in Chicago are actually very nice. Mine was. Depends on the type of people that move in. Some people just don't take care of their property and they always have an excuse.
My hometown, Baltimore will always hold a special place in my heart... but I had to get out.
It's so tragic now.
But you still love diversity, don't you?
Diversity is our strength /
That's a shame,I feel you .God bless you and your family.❤
@@АлексейКанаев-р8х Common racist troll
Me too. Can't pay me to go back to West where I grew up on Lombard street
A few minutes away from Annapolis where all the money and decisions are made that have left Bmore out of the conversation for the last 40 plus years. Left to fall in ruin with very little chance of any real revitalization except near the harbor and stadiums which still isn't the greatest feat for a small proximity. Again like Kensington, Bmore is rich with history that has been thrown away and forgotten, a city that has been treated like a Maryland stepchild because the manufacturing went away decades ago and nobody seemed to care then nor do they care now. What makes this country so coldhearted that cities seemingly become ruins of what they once were and money is spread everywhere else in abundance all around it but not where its needed? The politricks don't make sense, you have a cities with a need for jobs but the greed sends the smallest job out of the country (service call numbers, help lines) when you've got folks that can do the same here in their neighborhood. That All American greed will soon be the death of this country if nothing changes for the better for everyone, because there is enough for EVERYBODY TO BE EQUAL.
Diversity is our strength \
Thanks!
That is very sad. How everyone and everything has when down hill. And the rael kicker is that no one cares to fix the porbblmes
Wow! I saw a couple of hood memorials but there was one with a whole lot of liquor bottles. Whoever was killed at that spot was well known. Damn shame.
I'm sure they did the city a favor
Probably supplied drugs to hundreds of people and they wanted to remember him..
hood memorials? I feel like that's an oxymoron.
Another drug dealer bites the dust. Good riddance.
Diversity is our strength /
No windows but a working satellite dish.
Big screen and an Escalade, what else do you need?
I grew up there in the 50s and 60s. It was much nicer then. Wonder what happened?
Diversity happened
White flight
Keep voting Liberal
Small City that relied heavily on certain industries that essentially went away. And lots off mismanagement(on purpose off course)
Democrats happened.
I literally felt depressed after watching this...thanks.
Little Italy is still nice. Great food festivals. Maybe they can clean up the rest of Baltimore to restore its historic beauty
It won't be long before the Italians move out and then it'll be like the rest
Diversity is our strength /
It's a tiny tiny area. Arleady Sorrounded by public housing and some of their restaurants are closed too.
can't help but hear the Theme to the 90's FOX sitcom Roc playing in my head while watching this video. "mama may have, papa may have but God Bless the child that's got his own... that's got his own."
😊 Wonder what Suitland looks like now....
Why are we sending money to Ukraine? We should be fixing our own country!
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It's not the only country that money is being sent too though.
There's was a area here I think near Camden yards not sure I would have to look it up but business owners from somewhere like India but looked American bought a block of abandoned houses. They said every time they tried to start building all there stuff was stolen and vandalized, like workers tools new toilets and sinks everything they had in there and had been robbed by a person coming in during the day so they finally left
Small hat country as well
Great video. I live outside of NYC (bout 30 miles) and I’m born and raised in Philly in the hood. I’ve always felt a connection with Bmore. Reminds me a lot like Philly too. Shame to see how rough it is. Hopefully one day it’ll be back to being the beautiful city that it use to be 😊
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For an European it’s interesting to see this American way of life.
How do the slums of Europe compare to this? Better or worse?
I'm from Europe too and there are place like this all Europe but problem is another in america is second amendment ,, in Europe is not so easy to buy a gun like in usa ,, in usa is more easy to buy a gun that a beer crazy country
The state of Maryland has some of the most strict gun control laws in the US. The criminals ignore the gun laws on the books, with minimal chance of jail time@@manuelsantino8154
In some eastern european countries, in the slums the gypos eats you alive.😂
@@manuelsantino8154 you need a backround check to buy a gun in america. dont need one to buy beer
Yeah those abandoned houses are dangerous bro the floor collapsed in on me once
😂 he was running in the beginning like he got opps no one was worried about you
So sad even the pigeons fly upside down cause there's nothing worth shitting on
Grew up a ten minute drive from the corner of Northern Parkway and Park Heights Avenue, Pimlico neighbohood. You go from safe middle class to urban blight in ten minutes or less. That's Baltimore. Such a tragedy.
This place simply reflects the people.
Best comment ever
Ultimately, it is a reflection of policies that have encouraged and rewarded irresponsible behavior and disincentivized responsible behavior. People are people and all have sinful natures which can produce evil results.
And politics. Diversity + liberal policies = total destruction.
@@scottw3039Give people free money and reduce the police presence, this what you get. It's not complicated. Oh, and also when fathers don't raise their children.
@@GeronimoPlaz Parents in general. They're the root cause of Baltimore's crime and the rest of the country in general, as well. It *ALL* comes down to parenting. When the parents aren't around, this is what you get. Raise your kids right, teach them.. *OR* don't have kids, at all.
Respect to the Guy on the bike at 5:30 this is amazing, wish Him all the Best. ❤
The people who use to live in this area have all moved to Baltimore County.
The people who own these properties should be fined for not keeping up their properties.
Back in the 60's, 70's and 80's this was a great area.
They need to be torn down. 😢
These people are moving to projects in Baltimore County now, as well.. and the crime is following them. Even the county is starting to get worse.
Diversity is our strength /
……and they’ve moved to Frederick, Hagerstown and Cumberland (near the prisons), as well as the eastern panhandle of WV.
I hope you're strapped when doing this because the wild ones from Baltimore CityDO NOT take kindly to being filmed especially in a car creeping down the road with a camera pointing at them. Good luck! Stay vigilant.
I feel like he got hidden camera
@@cutiepiea3687the first few seconds seem otherwise , plus I think I’ve seen it around.
Great advice!!! Because they don't know if you're undercover agent spying on their activities
Yes, Baltimoreans don't want you to film their neighborhoods. For some reason, they take pride in this urban blithe. So please be careful.
As a musician, I passed through Baltimore in about 2004 playing music. Town was generally much safer then, but we passed through some pretty rough areas that gave me concerns. Now, I wouldn't get near that place.
as someone who grew up in the suburbs, i would petrified to visit places like this.
I swear there is always an ice cream truck, usually it's mister softee
"ice cream"...yeah, thats sure what its selling...😉
Always the same kind of neighborhoods and ALWAYS the same kind of people.
It feels like Africa with buildings and paved roads.
Yep, Africa definitely has something to do with the issue.
Diversity is our strength /
It's basically South Africa. Cities built by a more advanced people left to slowly rot by a local population unable to maintain it.
You look at Africa Caribbean you look at Haiti there's a pattern here isn't there?
@@_Some0nerandom_actually South Africa kicked most whites out in 1997 I believe so it’s been black ran know for a hot minute..no excuse for the current fate of that nation, they just can’t have a successful country 😂🎉
That building in the front on the video
Looks like that strip joint in Providence
This is going back 25 years
Glad I left the US 10 years ago for good. Born and raised in.Chicago ,that place started to look like Afghanistan. Best decision of my life 😊
@catsapp Botswana
Afghanistan never used to look like this before it was invaded
I like your side-facing camera 😎💯
Thank you. Thanks for watching. Lmk where you’d like to see next.
Yes!!! Living in America - home of the best hoods in the world😂😂😂😂
I live on W. 38th street and it looks nothing like this.
It’s wild how a small section of the city puts us in the top 3 most violent cities.
You live in a bubble.
North Ave & McCullough and Druid Hill..I grew up on Madison & Whitelock & West North Ave ..Pennsylvania Ave..real West side ❤❤Always
Same here, Whitelock Murda mall
Me too Druid hill whitelock
Still somewhat decent. Been there.
Over the years, Baltimore has deteriorated to what you see today.
The City Officials have been putting more money into the downtown area than they have in other parts of the city.
This is happening everywhere in the United States of America.
Look just like Philly it’s sad how you expect someone to live or better yet live correctly in these circumstances
all the people that have that type of self accountability left a long time ago.
As a Korean who lives in Korea. I cant imagine myself living there. I would shxt my pants every time i go out 😂😂
Why the streets are so empty and looks like discarded locality, where are people?
I have watched the whole video and not even one part of the city is concerned human beings lives there. No pride of where you live to take care of it. Unbelievable
The first time I been to tge USA I wasnt expecting to see so many homeless people, poverty and violence. I say violence bc we heard gunshots at night. This was in Washington DC. First I thaught its some fire crackers but the dude next door told me "Welcome to Washington"
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Not trying to be Captain Obvious, but if you are wondering what those letters means at the beginning of the video, they are actually words, and says, "Love your block".
They think love means fuck.
I laughed at the creepy drug-dealing ice cream truck... "Hello?"... that brought back memories. Memories of collapsing houses and corner nodders; of an over-abundance of crack houses, bars full of 2 AM street pissers, liquor outlets, and strip clubs; and of the grey, grey, greyness of tarmac and Formstone. But at least it looks like the city managed to get rid of all of the holiday ornaments - the plastic bags hanging in the trees - but it looks like the video was shot out of season.
I'm in my 50s and grew up in Baltimore. I moved away and back a couple times - to the SF Bay area and to Santa Fe. It and family kept sucking me back like a black hole. I finally moved away about seven years ago, and don't miss it. Yea, I miss my friends and a couple great restaurants but otherwise it's horrible. As beautiful as the housing stock may appear and as 'cool' as it has become for artists (basically, MICA students stranded by no employment potential), Baltimore has a never ending supply of potential which it will never meet. It's the Sisyphus of cities.
Unfortunately, I moved to Portland Oregon (for work) and it's quickly showing Baltimore-like tendencies, even in the suburb that I am in. Then again, one of Portland's long-time city council leaders, Jo Ann Hardesty (recently voted out), was a Baltimorean. But until America solves poverty and its education system (across the US, not just in metro areas), none of that is going away anywhere.
I almost feel like we need another contract with America - but this time not Republicans signing hit notices on everyone else's morals. Maybe this time everyone in America get's, I don't know, $100K and promises to go to school, work, join the military or Peace Corps - but never come back to the trough (except in the cases established by no-fault unemployment or other SSA-defined issues as established by the populace). If you can't pull yourself up with that, you agree to no longer burden the tax system with yourself - leech off your relatives, move to Mexico and lose your passport, or something. Invest the $100K in yourself or your family, neighborhoods can pool their resources, you can give it away to the charity you trust most, or you can give it back to Uncle Sam if you don't trust anyone. Everyone gets the same amount (kids get a trust fund combo, so parents don't piss ALL of their money away - money only spendable on healthy food, clothes, healthcare (including dental, psych, and vision/hearing), school/after school learning, and bikes or mass transit passes) so there's no bickering, everyone shut's up and focuses on THEIR problems, not everyone else's. But no exceptions after that. If you bought a Bentley with it but your recreational heroine use gets the better of you, that's it - your an addict with an expensive car in perpetuity or until you get your shit together. If your parents cheat you out of it, well kill your parents and get the life insurance to recoup your loss. We have to stop funding no-win situations though, which includes large swathes of Baltimore and other communities.
Maybe we need to have an honest conversation about human differences. Violence matters and businesses cant open when they are robbed until they shut down. Maybe we need to close our borders like Israel does and curtail the drugs from pouring in. Maybe they need to stop handing out free needles/crack pipes and fund decent treatment centers. All the places you speak about have been liberal, democrat run areas for over 50 years. Can you not see that connection? Though both parties are run by the same people now days. The biggest factor in all of this is human diversity. Different people's act differently, period. They have vastly different values and that plays out in how their societies are built. Google "Datahazard Substack" it's the blog of an analytical researcher who has put together the most thorough data on murder and violent crime in America. Until we can be honest about certain things as a society, nothing will change, and only get worse.
@@Faustian_Spirit Sowell got a lot of things right (but not all), but I don't buy the neo-liberal mash. Your walls will keep out people. People are not the problem. Market-centrification is the problem, business focus is the problem, the answer is not for everyone to go out and find their gig or become an entrepreneur (which Baltimore has been hammering home for twenty years - I know because I spent 20+ years in the community serving nonprofit sector while living there). Your example of not handing out free needles misses the point - the point of doing that was to save lives, to stop the spread of AIDS and other diseases; so your point is to stop doing that and let them all die? Yea, maybe, because of their drug use, they will kill themselves, but your choice is to do it in such a less civil way. So where's your civility? That's what has disappeared from this country, civility. Israel doesn't build walls to curtail drugs, not sure where you got that or if it's just some cutesy misinformation wording. Israel builds walls to keep out violence that IT fomented. I believe in a hard line on drugs, but not the prison system we have. I believe alcohol should be considered a drug. I believe highways are a drug. I believe single family dwelling housing developments are a drug... Why all of this? Because it all has gotten in our way of maintaining an ability to be civil, to relate to others, of forcing us to remember how to be social and polite and mindful, it makes it easier to close the door and ignore.
@Sirenwerks you said a lot of sense. This deserves a pin 📌
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