What Happened to Baltimore Maryland?
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- What Happened to Baltimore?
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I'm a native Marylander. The reason Baltimore's economy didn't transition is politics. It’s usually in the Top 5 of America’s most dangerous cities. Each year, over 300 individuals, mostly blacks, are murdered there. In 2020 more than half the city’s 32 candidates for mayor, running to replace Catherine Pugh, who’d pled to criminal charges, themselves faced criminal charges. A Pugh predecessor, Sheila Ann Dixon, resigned as mayor in 2010 after her criminal convictions. The mayor between those two criminals, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, in 2015 endorsed the criminal rioters burning the city, declaring “We gave those who wished to destroy, space to do that.”
But the real crime is what is done to young minds-77 percent black, 14 percent Hispanic-in the city’s schools. A 2018 survey found that of some 1,300 Maryland state schools, 35 received a low rating of “1” out of “5”; 23 of those schools were in Baltimore. Some 13 Baltimore high schools had zero students proficient in math. Bullying and violence in those schools are endemic. In one shocking case, a student in Augusta Fells Savage Institute of Visual Arts, a city high school, only passed three classes in four years, yet was still in the top half of the class and was passed to upper grades. And the problem isn’t lack of funds; the city spends about the same per pupil as does prosperous Montgomery County, which has some far higher-rated schools.
This comment sums it up very well. I would add high property taxes too. Property taxes in the city are double the surrounding areas. Why would anyone choose to live in an area with high crime, poor services AND pay double? There is no incentive to own property in Baltimore...this leads to low home ownership. People who dont own their homes tend to care less about them and their block. Unfortunately, they kept taxes too high for too long and now they cant afford to lower taxes even if they wanted to. It is what it is....
The Baltimore City School System is so bad that you have too prove you are a resident of Baltimore County in order to enroll your children in a Baltimore County School and do it each time your child changes schools. In order to prove you are a resident, you have to provide a copy of your lease or tax bill, your ID and five other pieces of mail. If you don't provide the proof, your child will be unenrolled in the school. This also applies if your child is going from elementary school to middle school and from middle school to high school and also if you have never moved during the time.
@@jonusjonus9271 I partially agree with you on the home ownership thing but there are a lot of people who just want to move when they want to move. There is a lot of fixed cost in purchasing a home and lots of extra cost, replacing a furnace, replacing a roof, replacing or updating kitchen appliances. My biggest problem is the culture of electing people to jobs in government not based on skill or integrity but based upon who they are related to, which church they belong to, or did they finance a big block party on your street. Basic Southern Small town politics. That kind of leadership does not rock the boat or propose creative solutions to problems and is very invested in the status quo.
@@jonusjonus9271 property taxes gets overblown. The market adjusts the housing prices accordingly. If you lower the property taxes than the purchase price increases. You can also write them off when you file federal. The city government can't afford to hire basic staffing so it's not lowering its property taxes anytime soon.
Those corruption scandals aren't the reason why Baltimore has issues. It's not like the entire budget was funneled; former Mayor Shelia Dixon got impeached over a $500 gift card. I don't believe the crime rate or graduation rates would be much different if the mayors' didn't have corruption scandals.
Baltimore was the first place I lived and taught after college. I love the area with all my heart, but living there constantly broke it. I have never seen people so numb to the suffering around them or content with mediocrity.
All the long term residents have dead eyes like they’ve been living in a combat zone
I learned humility in Baltimore
What happened to Baltimore ? Democrats!!,,the same with Detroit Chicago Philadelphia NewYork San Francisco Los Angeles Saint Louis New Orleans Minneapolis and Saint Paul Milwaukee Washington DC Portland. Seattle Pittsburgh Trenton notice a pattern or should I continue????
Sounds a lot like Chicago.
@@davidlotti5407red states are the poorest so your point isn’t valid just say you’re racist
Gotham without a Batman
Good one
Facts
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Great idea 💡
@@chad1733 bruh
It's sad to see my city go down by the years. I'm currently 17 years old; born and raised in Baltimore. I know that this city can strive for greatness, when I go to college, I want to become an Architect for my major, and make the buildings to make them look bigger (Like New York, Chicago, Singapore, Shanghai). More job and oppportunities.
Am so glad we left Baltimore for New Hampshire in the 1960s. I was born there myself, lived in the Hillendale section of the Parkville suburb near Towson, but I consider myself a Granite Stater now. I drove by Baltimore about 8 or so years ago and yes...a steep decline is evident. No reason for me to ever go back there.
That's black culture homie everywhere y'all go yall turn it into a ghetto let's spit raw facts not sob stories crying bout racism gtfoh stop asking white people for help we slne wit y'all fools
What happened to Baltimore?
Bl!ck Criminal$.
I want to become an Architect ........., and make the buildings to make them look bigger
Good luck kid
I live in Baltimore, one thing no one is talking about is lack of maintenance. Our roads, sidewalks, and services are in disrepair. So many blackouts and potholes. The public pools have green water and broken pumps. Do they seriously have no money or workers to fix this? Its awful.
Baltimore has the money. It's just that corrupt
Baltimore is a democrat utopia.
Our budget is in the billions. We have plenty of money to fix it all. We need to vote for better fam. We keep getting screwed by our mayors and by greedy people who line their pockets.
@@7heOriginalBossBaltimore is hundreds of million in debt
You can't have it with all the black's and democrats there.mission impossible
The answer is SO obvious yet not allowed to be discussed.
Be a trailblazer and discuss away then
Baltimore born and raised - moved away in 2004 at age 33... Things simply got to a point where it wasn't beneficial for me and my family to remain there. I still visit, albeit less frequently over the years - every trip highlights just how much the city has fallen. It's pretty sad to see.
My family, from both sides, was from Baltimore, although we moved to Philly suburbs when I was 3. Since 1980, all of my relatives there have died and there's no reason for me to visit back. Good thing, because the place is not the same. Crime, decay, people that just don't care anymore. A giant ghetto. Highlandtown, Dundalk, Arundel County all wasted. My parents are buried in New Cathedral Cemetery but I doubt I'll ever see their graves again. Long gone are the summer days of crabs and beer on the back porch...
What state have you made home? (If you don't mind answering)
@@NAH14386 Georgia…
And why has it fallen?
@@NAH14386 I’m in northern Georgia.
Watching ‘The Wire’ is about as close as I ever want to get to Baltimore. Great documentary.
I think a better question is what didn’t happen to Baltimore
Good government. That’s what didn’t happen to Baltimore.
Republicans didn't happen to Baltimore.
What happened to America? Oh right, stolen elections and installed Communists!
Go Jags!🏈
@@rupertchappelle1089 Because nobody likes Republican policies that's why!!
Most people who live in Maryland only go to Baltimore when they have to.
Yeah thats true its unfortunate that one of the premier ans best hospitals and medical schools is there.
I didn't know when the Key bridge collapsed how important the B-more port was.
@@skullmaisterJohns Hopkins isn't going anywhere.
@@track1949 unfortunately
Only for Ravens and Orioles games. That’s it
Everything is closed in Baltimore Harbour. It’s ashame there really is not a reason to visit anymore.
That’s so sad. 20-30’years ago it was a wonderful place to visit and have a date etc.
Been living in Baltimore for a while now. I think there are parts of it, like Fells, Canton, Fed Hill, etc that are some of the nicest and most affordable neighborhoods I’ve been to. Many capture the idealized “middle density” housing with the classic Baltimore rowhome and walking around these neighborhoods with their interspersed cafes and restaurants can be idyllic. The fact that the city hugs the harbor and how water can be seen from many neighborhoods is really unique among American cities, and is quite beautiful. It’s also a historically important and interesting city. There’s really a character about the city that you don’t get from the overly commercialized or prim DC next door, having also lived there for a while.
But those are affluent areas and I can appreciate that much of the city clearly struggles with stark poverty, due to a history of racial segregation and divestment. And now, through a lack of both political will and an impoverished tax base it’s challenging to dig out of the hole. Especially when it comes to foundational services like education and infrastructure to bring people in and provide opportunities to reduce crime.
Like all things, it’s not wholly bad or wholly good. Feels like the city is getting better in some areas and worse in others. I just hope we can figure it out and make progress, even if it happens slowly
I keep a boat at Fells Point. It's a decent place to bounce around and then when I've had enough, I just go back to my boat and crash for the night. I'll be down-sizing to a smaller boat that's easier to single-hand and I plan to make Fells Point my "home base" as I spend the last of my life trying to visit every town and port around the entire Chesapeake Bay.
Can we get an Amen for the mention of race? Racism + capitalism = the problems Baltimore suffers from
lol come to pigtown/penn north. You can't drive down the street without having the corner boys flagging you down to sell fent/crack
No mention of the highest drug addiction rate of any major American city--15%.
You hit the nail right on the head with that comment. Baltimore is full of zombies!
This is my motherland. I relocated to PA as an adult and then briefly returned before moving to Oregon with my kid. I wish it didn't have to be that way, I do miss it. My father worked for Beth Steel. Portland is now experiencing what Baltimore already has, and it scares me.
Liberalism
@@terryhall9159 woke antifa BLM liberals are taking over the USA…..
Take some copium, you’ll need it 🤡🤡
@@terryhall9159 Amen. The killing blow to America is Liberalism.
I lived in Baltimore while going to grad school. Then moved to Eugene, where I had a kid. I shudder to think how poorly his life would have turned out if he had been born and raised in Baltimore.
Portland’s main problem is the homeless and their leaders are having a hard time figuring out what to do with the situation.
Downtown Baltimore near the Inner Harbor was relatively safe in the mid to late 90s, but today, I wouldn't take long walks in the day or walk to my car at night alone.
It's as if black politicians only know this same strategy as seen in Baltimore over the past 40 years.
@bill jenkins Black politicians are paid by liberal white supremacists to keep black people "down".
They have no strategy! They are completely corrupt!
Some of the "renaissance" of the late 80s and 90s was a break for young people to buy houses, $1 if you put $10000 into restoration. Canton, Fells, Federal Hill...lots of working people in their 20s did this, coming in from surrounding counties. Problem was, these people then aged, got married, and had kids. Faced with the choice of exorbitantly expensive private schools or the worst public schools in the US...back out to the counties they went in the 2000s. High crime went higher (it was never "down", statistics were fudged in the O'Malley era) and a soft stance on crime reversed a lot of progress. It was unheard of for any crime at the Harbor even in 2010...not so much now. Look no further than city hall and the city council...it is one-party government at its worst. The city is in dire need of actual leadership and investment in new industries to turn it around again.
This is a pretty rational explanation. The threat of public school combined with high local taxes made/makes raising a family there unviable.
Harbor Place was new when I moved to Annapolis from Ohio in 1986. I liked Baltimore back in the day, but now…been there once in four years.
Facts. Black thugs rule Baltimore while those in charge Black politicians are not going to do anything about it. So it will continue to be a shit hole.
@kpk33x The REST of America will become Baltimore, California and Chicago if Biden gets reelected. There isn't enough wokeness in the world. Smdh.
Baltimore is adding lots tech jobs that will change the city in itself and have the same effect it did in San Francisco.
Scott adams knows.
I am a native New Yorker who has lived in Baltimore for the past 11 years. I love it here! Great restaurants, parks, and really nice people. Yes, we have our problems, all reflective of what has gone in so many other places in the United States. But Baltimore is one of the most affordable places to live and has lots of potential.
We dipped out years ago. I wouldn't even go out into the inner harbor at night.
I have lived in the Baltimore area since 1989 including living in Hamilton for 6 years. I could not disagree with you more. It’s a crime ridden dump with a lazy and obnoxiously overpaid federal work force. Total and complete sh#thole. You must work for Social Security or Hopkins
Yes lots and lots of black crime that could easily be solved, but the people of great baltimore keep voting to put up with the incredibly diverse cultural crime!! Well done guilty white dude.
Used to live down there years ago. Absolutely loved it. The people, the food, such fond memories.
Baltimore has better water views than DC. You could probably buy waterfront property dirt cheap in Baltimore. Johns Hopkins Hospital is also there. Maybe they should put the new FBI headquarters in Baltimore. When you drive I-95 you have to stop for lunch and try the blue crab. Getting in and out of Ravens stadium is so easy its perfect for visiting fans. If you keep driving to NYC expect to pay a lot of tolls. You are better off going south on I-95 and pay zero tolls all the way to Florida.
I currently live in Baltimore as I go to school at Hopkins, and its really sad to see how much potential the city has. When it comes to academics and related opportunities, the city is incredible, especially if you want to go into medicine (Johns Hopkins Hospital is one of the best in the world) or law (close proximity to DC), but it seems like so many of these opportunities are simply not available to the people who live there. This is blatantly obvious when I walk around the city and find myself near the "bad places", which are so incredibly run down and broken compared to the affluent areas around Inner Harbor and north Baltimore. The difference is astounding. I have some friends who went to high school in the city, and they've told me stories of how horrific these environments are for students and the terrible scores these schools have as a result. I really do not know all the details of why such a interesting, and at times beautiful, city has fallen the way it has, but I hope that at some point the city will put as much money into public schools and neighborhoods as it does the rich areas around the Harbor and universities.
I am not stating you are naive to the realities of Baltimore City, but you're missing or not acknowleging the gorilla in the room. Baltimore at one point was one of the best places to visit, but due to one-party politics, ( dems ), the corruption within the city politicians , and the planned road map to keep the Black population held prisoner to their virtual plantation, is why Baltimore is what it is today. It's sad to see but the people living there also need to fix their culture. I hope Baltmore returns to its glory days.
We could start with getting rid of this very corrupt city government!
@@shirleykurtz Would be nice, but the majority of the voters are Dem and low IQ, so they keep voting the same nonsense , over and over.
Thank you for making this point. Baltimore is absolutely Beautiful city. Doesn't have as bad areas, of course it does cause most cities do. Drugs and crime is the product of historic racism and red lining in most cities.
@@bgr5214 Drugs and Crime are not due to historic racism, it's due to one party rule. Democrat cities have never been long term success stories and when you have the Democrat party hand feeding the Black population to keep their votes, this is part of the result. Fatherless families, poor education systems lead to crime. Crime leads to businesses and economic opportunities leaving. This is NOT racism, it's social engineering.
I live in Carroll County west of Baltimore. The suburbs like here, Howard, and Hartford counties are really some of the best and richest in the country. Downtown Baltimore has seen some redevelopment over the years, they recently built the 2nd tallest high rise in the city and Maryland. But the crime and the politics have killed many potential for this city and its people. Also the way the road system is set up, like I-70 ending at a park and ride and not continuing to I-95, forces everyone on the beltway which makes traffic nearly as bad as DC sometimes. However, being near DC has contributed to Baltimore's metropolitan area growing nearly 5% still over the past decade, so Baltimore could maybe improve. I honestly think the riots back in 2015 was rock bottom, but it barely has gotten better since.
Very barely!
Buckle up because Calvin ball is gonna open a lot of sectiin 8 housing downtown
Howard County schools are horrible now.
If we stop electing thieves who just want to steal tax payers money we could see improvements in Maryland. Vote all these self interested criminals out of our government! That would be a good start in improving Maryland!
@@dww63 What's Calvin Ball have to do with Baltimore City? He's the Howard County Executive. Do you mean downtown Columbia?
Moved to Fells Point last June. Several car break ins and hit and runs later, it’s safe to say I won’t be renewing my lease. I can’t wait to see the skyline in my rear view mirror as I head southbound on 95, assuming my car won’t be totaled/stolen by then.
I love Baltimore. Its big problem is that, unlike Pittsburgh, it hasn't yet sorted out the "what next" after manufacturing and steel left.
I live hear and love my area. It's the only place that offers so much on my income. I can't afford to pay more than 350k for a home elsewhere
great point, Pittsburgh shifted to banking, and other industries.and have one of the most underrated Skylines in the country with majestic views, you come out of that Ft Pitt tunnel from the airport and the City lays out before you., No shade but Baltimore ain't for me.
It's kind of ironic they have world class universities located there to. University of Maryland med campus is in Baltimore not to mention Johns Hopkins. Lots off research very little innovation.
Not what, but who. Look who's in charge.
I never seen 500 people standing on a street corner, doing absolutely nothing, until I went to Baltimore!
We ALL KNOW.WHAT IT IS BUT WE WILL BE CALLED NAMES IF WE SAY ANYTHING 😅.. ITS ASHAME TOO THAT 80 % OF A PEOPLE DESTROYED THE OTHER 20.
Peter Cole' right on point! Black folks, and White liberal thinking, and Wokeism destroyed Baltimore. The government is corrupt as any gang. There is no accountibilty for any one in Baltimore City doing wrong! None! There is not one positive thing going on in Baltimore City as of Today, Nothing!
It is always some weak-ass pale face coward with no actual profile pic, that always hide behind their keyboards and talk shit all day, because in all reality they're way too scared to talk shit to someone face to face, because they know of the reprocusions and consequences.🤣🤣
You nailed it.
The problem is that the government and people in power protect the 20% at the expense of the 80% so that the 80% are not even allowed to defend themselves.
American Racism that caught up with itself destroyed Baltimore.
I guess America want to be South Africa.
Its simply poor management.. Baltimore suffers from what many cities suffer from a population unwilling to elect officials that will make a difference instead voting in the same people year after year..
Rigged elections.
@@caspersstudio4449
Exactly, look at Jacksonville, Fort Worth, Oklahoma City, and Tulsa. All red republican run cities and all of them are suffering from high crime rates and gang violence. So don’t give me this crap that republicans are better because they are not.
I work in Hoodlawn....I mean, Woodlawn. Honestly, when I retire. I will never see Baltimore again.
I grew up in Baltimore city when it was a decent place to live. Things started going downhill fast when I was 14, so we and many other people moved to Baltimore County. Just before I went into the US ARMY 1968-1971, race riots broke out and the City burned. The MD National Guard got things under control. There have been several race riots since then and the city was looted and burned again. I worked in Baltimore City for 25 years in some of the most dangerous gang infested areas. I contacted the MD State Police to get a concealed carry permit
because I feared for my life. The Officer asked me if I was carrying large sums of money. I said no. He said you are not eligible for a permit. I said to him, so what you are telling me is someone else's money is more important than my life. He said, yes that is correct. After I retired, I never went into Baltimore City again. It is one of the most politically corrupt cities in the country. The City government is corrupt, the public schools are corrupt, and the judicial system is corrupt, and has a revolving door policy of putting violent felons back on the streets 24 hours after they are arrested. The Mayors end up in Federal Prison, one after another. The District Attorney is currently being tried in Federal court. Crime in Baltimore City is simply a way of life from gangland murders to elected officials.
Exactly! Vote all these thieves out of office! It really can't get much worse!
Baltimore is a big city version of both Youngstown Ohio and Niagara Falls New York. Both those cities were corrupt to the core and the Mafia had a powerful grip on both cities. Was Baltimore also under the powerful grip of the Mafia?
The corrupt politicians have ruined Baltimore!
Black politicians are corrupt in Baltimore.
MD State PD did the same thing to me when I asked for a concealed permit about 22 years ago. So I decided to donate $2,000 to my County Executive's re-election campaign and the local county Democratic Party. Guess what? Concealed permit was approved!!!
Sparrows point ship yard is actually still alive and well. Not as a rail road but it now serves as a home for VW and BMW port. It’s where all the new cars get imported too. And that includes all over VW and BMW subsidiaries such as Bentley (VW) and Rolls Royce (BMW).
I used to work there
There all bum wage non union jobs where they have to bus people in from the city. And they gave the billionare who ownes the place a 90 million dollar loan that I guarantee tax payers will never see. All wile promising the residents in the area they where gonna build parks places to eat ect ect ect.....
FedEx; Amazon and McCormick Spices reign supreme down Sparrows Point (now called "Tradepoint Atlantic")
What do those jobs pay?
@@neilpuckett359 there all bum non union jobs most don't pay over 20 an hour. Amazon is down there. They had to put in a bus line to transport some people to the jobs. And the state " loaned" 80 million dollars to the billionare who bought the place. Can't wait to hear the story on why the loan is not gonna be payed back.
The Baltimore crime problem is seriously exacerbated by how the city has chosen to police itself. "Metrics based policing" has transformed "law enforcement" into "violation collection" resulting in incentives for counterproductive behavior. Officers are recruited, trained and evaluated on their ability to produce citations. This is entirely divorced from outcomes. It has become a business of filling jails and courtrooms rather than making neighborhoods safe. And the response from the public is just as tragic and predictable: jury nullification. Because of the abuses of folks like the Gun Trace Task Force (and several others), public trust in the BPD is so low that you can't find 12 residents of the city to convict on any charge brought by the district attorney's office. It is no surprise that the force has been in and out of federal consent decrees for the better part of 30 years.
There are many motives for crime, but if going to the police is no option for redress, the government has lost its command of its monopoly on violence. This, more than anything else, explains the failure of governance in Baltimore and the consequent rise in crime.
great comment..the same thing is happening in philadelphia....almost everynight now kids, and kids in cars surrond the center city, jump on cop cars, etc..and law enforcement must lay down
Lol
@@mcarlkv53 It turns out that the drugs the BPD was seizing in the cockup with the Gun Trace Task Force was being sold to dirty cops in Philly.
Ah yeah. Once again, the total lack of morals in young people and the total corruption and lack of responsibility in adults is actually the fault of the only group of people actually out on the street trying to protect them. 😏
When the "people actually out on the street trying to protect them" are steeling evidence cash and drugs and selling them to crooked Philly cops, you have to wonder how sincere their "protection" is.
My ancestors first bought land in what would be Baltimore in 1705. My great grandpa worked at the steel mill and his brother worked at the shipyard. My grandpa grew up in a row home near Green Mount Cemetery. He described it as a hell hole even in the 1950s, joined the navy to escape, and only went back to occasionally visit his parents. But even they left the city for the suburbs in the 1960s.
I visited once with my grandpa in the ‘90s and we drove past the house he grew up in. It looked like it had been bombed or something. The whole block is torn down now. He was scared out of his mind driving through the neighborhood he grew up in. I was too young to understand.
I later dated a nurse who did a year-long preceptorship or something in Baltimore in an ER. It was scary how casually she talked about people coming in after being shot or stabbed every night. Especially since half were on so many drugs they didn’t have a clue what was going on.
I’ve been back a couple other times, but the closest I care to go now is driving down I-95 and stopping at Fort McHenry and eating some crabs at Nick’s Fish House before continuing on.
Most of the hard working middle class moved their families to outer suburbs so they can raise their family and not worry about drugs, crime and trash left on the streets. We lived near Gay Street in the mid 50's. We could take a bus up to Sears and enjoy Broadway in the evening. During the holidays we enjoyed shopping at the large stores to also watch the displays and not worry about serious crime or our car broken into.Stores were open late at night! Now look at Baltimore city!! It makes one sick to see even small mom and pop stores gone!
Baltimore is not fit too live in! We could help this city by voting all these crooks out of our very corrupt city government!
Ain't that the truth!! We grew up near Pimilco race track and went to school there until 1964! Before that Broadway and North Ave were the places to shop! All the stores at Christmas were decorated with lights and shoppers really enjoyed the Holidays there. My dad alway had his cars serviced at Sears. The old stadium was the place to enjoy watching the Colts play and hot peanut stands at each corner. High Crime and drugs destroyed the City. At age 74 I still look back and remember those days!! John
It had not occurred to me that Baltimore is kind-of rust-beltish in the way it has declined. A truly historic city.
Having grown up in Cleveland, the similarities between that rust belt city and Baltimore are striking. What isn’t similar are Ohio and Maryland. I’ve lived in Annapolis since 1986 and am proud to almost qualify as a true Annapolitan.
Lived a little north of Baltimore for over 50 years. After Mayor Schaefer, the city started going downhill. The past 20 years the death spiral has accelerated. It is now dirty, unsafe and the retail is largely vacant. Our family used to go downtown to the Inner Harbor, O's games, concerts, museums, Hippodrome, etc. just about every month. Ten years ago, we stopped going and have never gone back. I worked in downtown Baltimore for 15 years in the 1980s and 90s. It was vibrant and active during the week as well. Now the downtown area looks like a wasteland and is largely empty. What happened...decades of corrupt politicians that let the city rot and a woke police force that is not able/allowed to combat crime. I don't see any way back for Baltimore now that the criminals (both political and street) run the show.
Ehhh.....that's a weak analysis based on political views. The decline started way before wokeness.
@@Pdmc-vu5gj I believe Mark was recounting his personal experience which is 100% valid.
Well said. I feel sorry for this city because our future (the children) are getting killed.
@@1982nsu and 1000% anecdotal at best.
@@1982nsu Not really. I live in the area. Baltimore wasn't vibrant in the 80s and 90s. It was much of the same.
"What happened to Baltimore, Maryland?" I wouldn't touch that one with a ten foot pole.
I was raised in Baltimore in a blue collar area near The Point, as we called Bethlehem Steel. I had a great childhood, with many fond memories. I've lived in the Baltimore vicinity then moved to harford County in '95 and lived there until 2016. Moved to Florida in 2017 and stayed for 5 years. The difference in political leadership, in Florida, is amazing. I loved it but moved back to Maryland, to be near family, last year. I knew not to move close to Baltimore city because, like a cancer, the crime and corruption is spreading. I am now on the eastern shore of Maryland and even though I'm a 3 hour drive away from family, I prefer to stay as far away from the city as I can. What the crooked politicians have done to our city and the people who live there is a crime.
It doesn't take a genius to see what these corrupt politicians have done to Baltimore!
I grew up in Dundalk and went to Sparrows Point middle school. Also grew up in Fort Howard for a bit too. It used to be so nice back then.
Baltimore was a good place back then. The politicians since then have been very corrupt people.They flock to politics because they know they can steal tax payers money and become filthy rich quick! This is of course how to keep the tax payers uneducated and in poverty!
You got that right!
blacks
Bron here and still here..😥The problem with Bmore is the city council and it's government are totally corrupted and terrified to stand up for the people here just trying to live and have a little something.LoudLove..🔊🔊🔊💜💜💜
100% corrupt politicians!
Good video
Born and raised in Baltimore, this video hit very close to the heart
what is being done to improve the city.
Not one damn thing!
I visited the National Harbor in Maryland on my trip to Washington DC, and I could tell from the hills north of the Potomac River in Maryland that this was as good as it was gonna get for the Old Line State. Pretty cool and unique state flag, though.
I found myself in the city in December, not knowing exactly where I was. I stepped out of the car and a gentleman about my age came up to me (obvious to me he was from there) and asked if he could help me find something (obvious I was a tourist). I looked into his eyes and could tell he was trying to tell me something but couldn't say it out loud. I knew exactly what he was "not saying" so we got back in the car and left.
You were looking for drugs?
You are very lucky that your 6th sense told you to leave. It's a very dangerous place and not getting any better. Tourist get attacked all of the time and the sad part is nothing will ever be done about it. There was a new jersey family attacked with their children about 4 years ago. Ran up on the family and started beating all of them in front of the kids. Young kids. Animals
Took a wrong turn leaving the Meyerhoff 20 years ago. Wound up in an area where all the windows were plywood. Found a cop car and stopped for directions to I95. Cop rolls down the window and says, what the F are you doing here. He had us follow him to 95. Said it was easier than dealing with our homicide investigation.
@@paulrickman7549 Sounds about right
@@paulrickman7549LOL you are definitely white
Please do a what happened to Bridgeport, Connecticut?
The Wilmington, Delaware Riverfront aimed to be like the Inner Harbour at one point, like a mini-version of it. I'd say it's still doing pretty well but the actual Inner Harbour is struggling.
It's very disingenuous to say Baltimore is reliant on old economic industries and hasn't adopted new ones. I'd suggest researching this further.
We know what happened to Baltimore.
Sparrows Point is actually in Baltimore County (A totally separate entity) but was a big employer on the east side.
When driving down the eastern seaboard, I cross the Delaware Memorial Bridge, get off onto Rte 1 to 301 and skip Baltimore entirely. No thank you......
I also skip Philly and D.C. I drive over to I81S to avoid these dumps.
And when I drive over the Delaware Memorial Bridge, I skip Wilmington and Philadelphia entirely. They make Baltimore look like Disney World.
Derbagger22' You don't have to get off 95 south to avoid Baltimore. Just keep driving past it, the same with Wilmington, Delaware You don't have to get off 95 south to by pass them. It take five mins to by pass balto, and five mins to pass Wilmington.
@@Shadow-7773 not during any daytime hour with traffic
DC is a very beautiful city I don't know where you are from but it's not as good as DC
There are a myriad of reasons what happened to Bmore. Corrupt politicians (the mayors), heroin, crime, horrible public schools, projects, lack of jobs, the war on drugs, businesses left, no real re-investment into the city, etc. It's starting to have a slow re-emergence; however, it definitely needs new leadership to turn it around because it could be a world class place to visit. People are buying houses again and hopefully they will start to hold the leadership of the city to task.
Good luck with looking for politicians to help with the problems here!
The only ones buying houses in Baltimore are either the gullible or out of state investors that will just sit on them and do nothing.
The politicians created this mess of a city!
GM had an assembly plant in Baltimore as well. In the last years they assembled the GM Astro vans - but that plant too is now gone.
My immigrant ancestors owned Potthast brother’s furniture there from 1890s to 1970s. I’m sure the 4 generations that owned it saw the demise of the area. My grandfather left Baltimore in the 1920s to pursue a career in New York
Politics; education and demographics are the reasons why. I would know firsthand cos I'm born & raised and drive buses in-around the Baltimore metro.
This city is literally one good fortune away from being a livable place but, as mentioned above, those three things bury B-more far too often
Baltimore has two professional sports teams, Orioles, Ravens
Funny, the old Baltimore Colts (now Indy) left and the Ravens took over. They were originally in Cleveland. The Orioles came from St Louis (Browns). They had the Baltimore Bullets, NBA team, which is now in Washington DC and named the Wizards.
@@kevinbergin9971 what part of that comment was funny?
Lived and worked in Baltimore for 5 years after college (2016-2021). Being from VA, had obviously heard of Baltimore and crime but i always thought it was overhyped. Then I moved there and realized it was in-fact VERY prevalent. In 2020 a co-worker of mine was beaten and mugged on his way home from the office. Left in 2021 to Boston and honestly so happy I did.
I used to drive down to Baltimore all the time in the 90's and early 2000's and it was a really nice place to visit then. The waterfront and downtown areas were really nice and there was a lot to do. Now the entire area is completely run down and there isn't nearly as much stuff there. It's been a few years since I've been down there but I hear it's gotten worse.
You heard right!
The downtown and waterfront area is not rundown. The downtown area, Fells Point etc are still upscale and attracts many visitors, tourists etc. It's just outside these areas are filled with rundown and dilapidated buildings. Crime is at an all-time high and the politicians are doing what they usually do...nothing. I'm hoping to see an overall positive change soon but I'm not holding my breath.
I remember when harbor place opened up. That was the gem of the hole area.
"the hole area"? That doesn't sound good at all.
Politicians happened
Lots of stores, hotels, restaurants, and attractions closed in the inner harbor, which is a major tourist destination in Baltimore.
I really liked B-more when I visited. Proximity to Philly, DC, NYC and its own shipyard and airport. All 4 seasons without getting too cold in winter. Its really sad. Maybe remote workers can save this place if they all gathered to purchase entire blocks lol
Not as long as we have corrupt politicians that don't care about the city or it's citizens. Until then things will never change!!
Very poor leadership
My grandfather worked as a ship welder at sparrows Point 😊
In the 80s a neighbor worked at SP; there wasn't enough work and he'd sneak out, someone would punch his card, and he'd be by his inground waterfront pool sipping ice tea.
I live in Maryland and I got recommended this
All I’m gonna say is last time I was in Baltimore a mass shooting occurred on a street I was walking like a block or two away from like an hour after I left.
It’s sad going by all the decaying buildings and seeing the shadow of what it once was and how violence and corruption is tearing it apart from within now.
I live in Western Maryland, one of the normal areas of the state, and used to visit Baltimore frequently. Now we won't go anywhere near it. Unfortunately, many of the Baltimore inmates in our prisons here are settling here when they are freed.
I live 20 minutes from downtown Baltimore and have not been into that city for more than 6 years. Former Ravens season tickets and 8-10 Orioles games per season. NO MORE!!! That filthy, crime ridden cesspool won't get a nickel of my money until they do something to make it safe!!
I agree with you 100%.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad actually went through the place where I live!
Sadly, it was never the same after Hammerjacks closed. 🤣
And don’t forget about PT Flaggs. I use to go there on Sundays back in 1989 - 1990 for teen night. Baltimore was a great place to grow up in as a teen back in the eighties - early nineties.
New York City in the 80's showed that by eliminating crime their neighborhoods attracted families to the city like Brooklyn and Harlem.
And now even in NYC in the nice neighborhoods the crime is up and everywhere except Manhattan is essentially abandoned.
This is so not true @@chrisd2051
Dependence on "Old Industry"? How about dependence on government handouts!
3:00 About 20 years ago I stayed at a very nice hotel in Baltimore, i was on the 7th floor. Starting about midnight, i could hear sporadic gun shots every now and then throughout the rest of the night. Never went back.
We would hang out uptown on Charles St., Fells Point, Inner Harbor. Lots of great bars, music, restaurants & people back in the late 1970s & 1980s. Felt very safe at night & had a blast. Would never go near Baltimore City now, probably get robbed or killed. Great places are gone now.
It's still some great places in Baltimore to hang out at. I always have fun when I go out. Crime is the last thing on my mind.
@@Jryder933 I am so happy to hear that, enjoy, but be careful!
I grew up in west virginia and live in baltimore. I would rather raise my kid in Baltimore than west virginia. Here, my kid has some of the best schools in the country. I have great healthcare and a 6 figure job. I would have none of this in a red state. I would be lucky to be a manager at a fast food restaurant and my kid would have a 20% chance of dropping out of school and getting hooked on meth or painkillers.
The truth of Baltimore is thats its actually two separate cities. The east side, which is extreme and extremely influentual and well maintained and the west side which has been nearly abandoned. Why is simple. Poor people dont vote or donate to campaigns. The rich do and so east baltimore gets all the attention. This is made worse by the road system that blocks off east and west baltimore. If the rich dont see it, its not there. The subburbs of baltimore are all upper middle class. This is where i live. Its very nice. The zoo is the weirdest area. You have to drive through these ghetos and are immediately greeted by some of the richest areas in the state. The zoo area is very nice but on the other side.
Red states arent any better. My country home town in west virginia has a far bigger drug problem per person than baltimore with lower employment and no heathcare. Having grown up in a red state, unless your in a blue city, the best thing to do is get the f' out.
Insightful. Thanks!
@thomasmccullagh1300 west virginia voted over whelmingly for Trump by 68% of the vote. Republicans hold a super majority in the state. It's entire executive branch is republican. There is not a single blue district in the state. Nearly all are deep red. West virginia politics revolves around coal. Coal hasn't been profitable since the mid 1950s and since there is very low voter turnout, the coal industry pays big bucks to politicians to keep businesses out of west virginia and keep education near non existent for low educated, low income workers that can't leave the state for better employment.
Why would anyone ever want to go to a city when a Mayor would say, let them do whatever they want to do? I'll never visit it, fact!!!
A lot of foreigners and immigrants are making it home now
They're the ones holding it together. At least they try to make something of their life. We are all from immigrants.
Well , one sure thing. Officials Dont give a crap
I grew up outside Cleveland in the 1960s and 70s. Both Cleveland and Baltimore peaked in the 1950s. By the time I moved away from Cleveland in the late 1970s, Cleveland had already become a joke. When I moved to Annapolis in 1986, I felt that Baltimore was a big city that still had a lot going for it. Although the decline started decades ago, I didn’t sense Baltimore’s decline really started sliding downhill fast until the last decade. I still live in Annapolis and have only been to Baltimore once in the last four years. Pretty sad.
Born and raised in Bmore my whole life. Bmore really started to decline in the early-mid 2000's.I started working in the inner harbor in 1998. On any random summer day that inner harbor would be packed. From Light street down to President street would be a huge sea of people. Tour buses were lined up for 2 blocks down Pratt street to drop off out front the aquarium. Then every year the crowds got smaller and smaller, and there were less and less tour buses. The cafe i worked at made $1 million profit in the summer 2001, by 2006 they weren't breaking half a million a summer.
Baltimore is in a race to the bottom! It's almost there!
You're a traitor for moving away from Cleveland.
@@MrThecroatian In 2014, my wife divorced me, my career ended, and my mother died. My mother left me the house in Euclid where I grew up. Considering the confluence of circumstances, moving into that house, mortgage free, had its advantages. I had to compare where I have lived for decades, Annapolis, Maryland, with my hometown, Euclid, Ohio. There's no comparison. Annapolis is a beautiful, vibrant city, state capital, and home to the United States Naval Academy. Despite it's issues, Maryland is a forward-thinking, prosperous state. The Cleveland area, on the other hand, is a decaying relic, and Ohio is swirling down the tubes and racing toward the bottom in political leadership. Nuff said.
@@Nicksonian I live in Euclid. What a coincidence!
I'd think it's proximity to the capital would make the city ideal for affordable housing, given that rent in DC, some Maryland suburbs, and NOVA are sky high.
When the industry left, the prosperity left. The only thing that didn't leave was poor folks on welfare. They had no way to move. It would be better to bull doze down the whole thing and let other cities absorb those that are left.
I grew up in the 90s in upstate ny. My grandma lived in York PA. Every summer we'd go with her to Baltimore to watch the Orioles play, visit inner harbor, the aquarium, and go crabbing. My dad used to take me to the Southside fish and produce markets. We were literally the only white people. I was a 9 year old blonde haired, blue eyed child, but I was never treated with anything but kindness. The vendors at the fish markets were always spoke to us happily and openly. Back then Baltimore was walkable and had lots for tourists to do. We spent a lot of time at the convention center for Gamesday.
I last went to Baltimore in 2011. I was just passing through on my way from Dallas to NYC. I got gas and there was such open hostility towards me just pumping gas. I got jeered at, called "Dorothy", and honestly felt really uncomfortable being alone.
I watched a video tour of Baltimore recently and the guy filming got death threats and the city looked downright frightening. Very sad. I'll never go back.
My son lived in the city for about a year, he stated that Baltimore has the potential to bounce back, he's seen the good and bad sides of Baltimore but he would recommend any other city in Maryland.
What's with the repeated use of the conditional tense - "would", "would", "would", "would", over and over and over again - in place of the past tense?
Much of the Baltimore and Ohio is still there including most of its main lines. It was simply merged with another railroad, The Chesapeake and Ohio which in turn was merged with the Seaboard system in order to create CSX. ALL the major US railroads have gone thru merger processes of many many steps and the only old railroad name for large railroads that has survived is the Union Pacific (as well as the Canadian National and the Canadian Pacific which both have a lot of track in the US, especially, CN).
As my wife is from Baltimore I'll say it was DEMOCRATS !
That's what happened to Baltimore.
No political party did it; it was the inevitable slide into poverty.
Baltimore is my favorite city ever since i was 4 ppl can be fun (if in the right area) but for the most part i love it
I was born and raised in Baltimore. I moved away at 18. The city doesn’t have much to offer but it’ll always be home ❤
what happened/ liberal policies and the insanity to keep voting for them.....
very accurate. the inner harbor was former mayor then govenor schaffer's show piece but it didn't get much development since the 80s. the city still has a lot of potential but no one willing to tackle it.
We just need the right people in office that actually cares about the city and it's citizens.
We certainly do not have that now!
@Jryder933 lol good luck with that.
What happened to the US period???
Heartbreaking.
What's more dangerous? Baltimore, Medellin, or Caracas?
Baltimore is the Caracas of the North.
Only go to Baltimore if you want to be a victim of a crime. I visited the aquarium last summer and had my car broken into just so the person could steal a Hydroflask water bottle that was on the floor
lived in Baltimore city 2000 - 2003 on Maryland Avenue, get married and had my first born in Balto. so many sweet memories😢
I lived in Baltimore 1999-2002 and I liked the place.
What happened to Baltimore? Little kids shouting, Hey White boy I got that fire. That's what happened to baltimore.
I was born on Light Street before Alaska and Hawaii were states. I was raised 11 miles to the south. I left Maryland in 1980 and visited many times over the decades. Almost immediately I saw the taxes and politics change. I saw other places operate without state income taxes! I saw places with less corruption. Baltimore has always been a “blue collar” town and the Orioles and Colts, plus Bullets and Clippers were sources of pride. Having been away for over two score now it is obvious what the major problems are… HBO even made a 4-season series about it called “The Wire.” Crime; drugs; lack of good paying blue collar jobs; pathetic schools; and political corruption are true standout problems. I became a political and economic refugee from that area decades ago. It has been sad to watch the city crumble despite its rich history but there is no serious will by anyone there to seriously address the problems… they prefer to tell the voters it is someone else’s fault and they fight over scraps of the shrinking “economic pie” and tell voters to vote for them and get free stuff, or appeal to racial division and hatred… utterly depressing. When crime and corruption are addressed seriously, and taxes are “reasonable” businesses will return. But why would I open a business or industry there when my employees will be routine victims of crime, my employees can barely read or do arithmetic; and I have to deal with political corruption?
Yes, Baltimore is a real cesspool!
Criticism is fair game, but lets stop the Income Tax Nonsense.....The problems have NOTHING to do with Income Taxes. Their were high income taxes in the early 80s when I hung out at the Harbor all the time, and it was BOOMING. I know you don't like taxes, but there is no relation to corruption and crime.
@@Arturo-sm1tb not trying to argue, just offering another perspective. All of America was booming in the 1980s! I was overseas in the military and heard about it from my many civilian friends. Florida is still booming and they have NO state income taxes. I don’t have a problem with “reasonable taxes.” I want fire fighters, police, prisons, pothole-free roads, quality schools, effective embassies, a fit military force, a focused space program, maintained parks, etc… but the corruption of Maryland politics is epic… long before Agnew! There seems to be no end. If Baltimore had an outstanding school system, very safe streets and such I might accept higher taxes, but when you see revenue-generating businesses leave due to taxes and crime… well I’d take my business out of Chicago , Portland and Baltimore if all the money I paid in taxes got me no civi justice for incarceration of criminals. I miss what Baltimore was but it is gone. Few have any idea what the founding father from Maryland dis for the original 13 states or even the real reason Maryland is the “Old Line State” (not the Mason-Dixon Line).
I moved to Maryland 30+ years ago, I went to Balt and DC many times in the late 80s through the 90s. Both places were high crime at the height of the crack epidemic, you had to be very careful, but they also had great bars and restaurants for young people. Most US big cities at that time were the same, 20 years prior, the riots of the 60s scared away all the investment. By the 90s most of the capital managers were a new generation that did not experience the 60s. They started to invest into downtown areas in the 90s and many cities in the US started to recover. Baltimore and DC both got investment in the 90s that made them fun for visitors. Washington DC somehow found decent mayors and council members (After the debacle of marion Barry). Baltimore, OTOH, had a series of terrible mayors like Catherine Pugh and Sheila Dixon. Washington continues to secure investment dollars and the people are conning back to downtown. I cannot believe some of the nice places in DC that used to be scary. It is not perfect, but it is definitely moving in the right direction. Baltimore, OTOH, has big problems. The riots 6 years ago (Freddy Grays death at the hands of police) is going to stop investment for another decade. Unfortunately, I will not visit Baltimore harbor after so many years of fond memories, the crime in the area is just too risky.
Funny thing is, both DC and Baltimore elect Democrats exclusively. How does Democratic leadership work in DC but not in Baltimore, maybe it is not just Democratic leadership?
The reason why is that Washington D.C. is the nation's capital, and the Federal government is only growing in size. Hence, D.C. has been recession proof for years. Even during the 2008 housing subprime mortgage crisis, D.C.'s average home price still increased only slightly, but still accumulated more value than houses in every other city in the country.
The problem isn't inherently Democrat leadership, it's bad Democrat leadership that favors following ideology over good city practices. Riot control? "We need to give people space to destroy."
They didn't mention the role Crack played. I'm glad you said something about it. This was a big factor why people got out or stayed away from Baltimore and DC in the 80s and 90s.
Although both DC and Baltimore are run by Democrats, Congress has oversight in DC. So some of the decisions made by DC council is overturned by Congress.
I think in general, the entire two party system is more to blame than just saying, "Democrats!" When candidates with various views all have to cram into one party in order to be viable, it allows a mayor to be elected with only 28% of the vote
What happened to Baltimore? I would say that it was struck with the rich and multifaceted African American culture and the delightful people in whom that culture lives.
Don't forget John Manville's asbestos bankruptcy, or DuPont's teflon woes. The explosion of the Norfolk port facilities taking ocean going traffic, and the general decline of the horse racing industry. All of this and more, plus Charlie Bethelham closing down, crippled the economy. I don't think it will ever recover. It's really sad.
I’ve only visited once and I did love the city very much.
Were you in a coma at the time?
Criminals run the city, that’s what happened!
Mainly the governments criminals
Not one honest politician in the bunch!
West Baltimore, is the "Land that Time Forgot". It's a nightmare. Rats the size of Cats. It's truly hard times there. Most people born in Baltimore are proud of it. I can't say the same. Better days are needed.