I grew up in Baltimore, and know it starts on the local level. To really turn that city around, you need a drug treatment center in every neighborhood paid for by drug war dollars. You need trade job skills training in every neighborhood and show people there's more than one way to make a good living then selling drugs. If someone gets sentenced to prison for a drug use/possession charge, the first 30 days of their incarceration needs to be done in a treatment program. And last but certainly not least, we need to reinforce the notion of fatherhood in this city. If a young man gets a girl pregnant, there needs to be a place he can go for advice and mentorship. We need to show these young men how to be fathers, even if that means not being a husband. We need parents for these kids because kids raising kids leads to chaos and it's what they have now. I once heard 2 young girls about 15-16 on a city bus in Baltimore talking about their plans for the future. I was on my way home from work and these girls got on at a stop in front of a community center and sat in front of me. The one girl said to her friend that she just had a talk with her mother and HER MOTHER told her she should get pregnant soon so that she can get her "own check" and her "own place", The other girl said that she was going to start having her babies soon too but was going to live with her momma because she had a section 8 house and it would help her mom get more money so they could get a car. I thought I was in the twilight zone and wanted so bad to tap them on the shoulders and tell them there was a better way. But I know how well that would have gone over. It occurred to me then and there that this level of poverty is a family cycle and is passed down like some kind of bad genetic disorder. This mindset is what needs to be addressed in Baltimore.
Yes I had a similar experience not as bad though I asked a young lady that had just graduated high school what she wanted to do after and she wanted to be a nurse. Nursing is a good job but I don’t think she thought she had another choice
You hit the nail on the head. I also think there should be more programs and opportunities for people fresh out of jail. Having a felony paradoxically makes it harder for someone to turn their life around, and they go right back to what they were doing before.
I'm from Baltimore, I live on the westside.North avenue looks like a 3rd world country.Imagine growing up in this bleak environment.There was an 8yr old boy killed by an abandoned house that collapsed on him while he was walking home from school.Imagine waking up every morning to the drug dealers right at the end of your steps and the addicts in line waiting to get their fix.imagine the children who witness SEVERAL murders by the time they're 13.Looking at that type of violence and despair from the day your born every day, changes a person and rips any sense of hope of a future from you.There are soooo many aspects of what needs to be fixed its overwhelming.I think a lot of people have become so beaten down by it all that they've thrown their hands up and given up.its sad,so many didnt start out with this apathetic outlook on life,and want to do better but do not know where to start.
I grew up in the housing projects too. But you know what, I'm not now. My parents were drug addict "crackheads". I personally made a decision when I was a child not to let that be my life. I finished high school and got a trade in Manufacturing. We can't keep blaming the "white man" for mistakes that you do yourself. The real reason why people stay in the projects is because you have been mentally programmed to think that nothing can be better than this. The government started it, but we didn't have to continue it. I'm a married father of 2 kids and I always wanted better for myself. It's not how you was raised, but it's how you choose to live. Simply 👌
This. My best friend from middle school through high school moved to my town from Baltimore. His father worked hard and got a really good job at a huge company so they moved. Had a nice house in a middle class, mostly white, area. He would tell me (back in the 80s) that they had to stop talking to most of their old friends because they were called sellouts (followed quickly by...can you give me some money?) His father would say that he used to worry about bullets coming through the walls, after the move, his biggest worry was keeping weeds out of his garden. Point being, his father worked hard and decided he wanted better. Its not the government getting these 14 year olds pregnant. Or fathering 6 kids by 21 years old and not knowing any of them. Its not the government forcing kids to drop out of school. Stop expecting some "entity" to take care of your problems. Government is just a collection of people, not gods. They dont know any more than anyone else and are more concerned with keeping themselves and their party in power.
There's a reason why Homicide, The Wire, etc. were filmed in Baltimore. The set/scene was already there. You didn't need a studio in Hollywood to create it. It already existed and was 100% real.
The wire was filmed there because it really was based off the true story. Then used Avon's name etc but the truth is little Melvin's crew was the one who was using the codes on the pay phones.
Thats why The Wire is a masterpiece. It showed people from the suburbs what the life is like. Hopefully people learned from it because like you said its legit real and can happen in any city, especially the longer its run by Democrats. Its like exponential with those guys.
Grew up in East Baltimore. I hear the saying so many times that “I sell drugs to support my family” yet I rarely saw one drug dealer selling drugs to legitimately support their family. Sure, they might throw a couple dollars here and there to family members but it was mainly for clothes, cars, females, and overall clout. We’re dealing young people who don’t look up to doctors, lawyers, or people who went to school to earn a good living. They look up to the drug dealers who have a lot of money and get it quick rather then spending years in school.
I do not disagree the wire is one of the best shows but, The Corner set the stage for the wire, short but it really gives you a deeper look into the street of baltimore
Born and raised in W Baltimore. The wire showed only a slice of my city. When and how many videos have you seen of successful students from these same neighborhoods that attend the universities in that same city? So what message is the media trying to send? How many videos have you seen like that? Do you follow me?
Philadelphia’s not much better. It seems we ought to be more concerned about our own people in the US before we worry about asylum seekers and illegal aliens.
Vivian Lee parts of Philadelphia are absolutely beautiful but that’s only one side of it; crime is rampant, people litter, the schools are often bad and for me personally the amount of homeless cats is staggering and very sad. You can get cats spayed and neutered for free but many people are too lazy to do it! There are many blighted properties, homeless people, the roads are often barely drivable Sure the architecture, parks, museums and restaurants are amazing but it takes more to make a city truly great.
Great point and its by design, and it started back in 1619, we was made least desirable thru a system that after our force forced servitude went unrewarded etc. Its by design end of story end of a race, and may the Universe have mercy on us all, peace and love anyway, sad sad sad.
your right because no one cares when italians or mexicans shoot each other and no one cares when blacks shoot each other of course its sad but the way people think is like you chose that life if you die that was the stakes you excepted so you gotta get rid of that mind set
I lived in Baltimore for a while in 1969. It was a great city. Most of the crime was confined to an area called "The Block". There has been a constant decline in Baltimore and many other cities in America. This is primarily a cultural problem with no easy solutions. All of our cities are filled with nonfunctioning people. Addicts, mentally ill etc. People are going to have to take responsibility.
Also corruption problem…lots of corruption in local government & police department. Keep putting repeat violent offenders back on the street, crime will only get worse.
Doesn’t matter who’s in the White House in my opinion. I grew up in poverty in Mississippi especially due to systemic issues. It got even worse in my neighborhood when the little jobs that we had left and went overseas in the 90s.
A lot of the money was used to build the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The Inner Harbor is really for white people. Most Black people living in the city can’t afford to go there. White people from the surrounding counties in Baltimore and tourist enjoy the Harbor. What’s done with the money made there is anyone’s guess.
@@chairmanmeow3693 My comment was in NO WAY racial. The problems that exist in Baltimore exist in San Francisco and Seattle and parts of West Virginia and New England. BOTH parties are selling out the American people White and Black. Btw I AM a White guy. Keep your odious racism to yourself......You DIM BULB!!!!
@@chairmanmeow3693 Your comment began by specifically insulting Black Americans. That alone is the definition of racist. The comment is un-American and reprehensible. I served in the United States military with people of all races including Black people. They always had my back and I had theirs. The stupidity of White racist commenters (SUCH AS YOU)never ceases to amaze me. You are the DIMMEST of ALL BULBS!!!!
@@billhathaway2814 Well, aren't you gonna say the same thing to AAron, Bill? He too specifically insulted black Americans. Is he (a black man) ALSO un American and reprehensible? Or is it just white people?
People aren’t necessarily drinking because they enjoy it. A lot of people in these poverty stricken areas are just trying to dull the pain of the loss and fear that they deal with everyday.
from nz... coz the depth of corruption in politics everywhere is hurting every one of us. i came here coz of trump's comments..n because i've watched cummings super poor performances in congress....tho it's not just him, it seems. baltimore's last mayors seemed corrupt...n those before, apparently pelosi's relatives.when are baltomore voters going to realise that the long line of democrats has near killed this once thriving city . maybe trump's comments are truth...n truth sees no colour. i hope residents can reclaim their city.
How can you when everything that's supposed to help you is not given... i live here in Baltimore..., I've also done 11yrs.., in the penitentiary here D.O.C. City Jail ect..., either you wasn't listening, or already formed your own opinion. When you are a target of so called society before you enter this realm call earth..., simply because of your color is beyond insanity... When you have people that get benefits and opportunities that's not even discussed in our communities..., and to top it off they're not even from this country..., I'm a true native of Turtle Island now called the United States, I'm Chickasaw, but not allowed to called myself by my native bloodline.., they call my people African Americans, and we are not African Americans, but prisoners of war, and the powers that be know this.... So explain your response not being us...???
@@LDBvision bro they’re not listening. They don’t want to know the truth, they’re either too stupid or willfully negligent. Just look at the original comment .. dude already made up his mind. Their could be no such thing as structural violence or systematic racism and oppression. They stick to their ignorant rhetoric
100% agreed. This what I've telling folks that's our fate if we don't get out there and vote for the best, honest, and noblest Presidential Candidate we got.
Tim your title leaves out the fact that this country is run by white men who have done everything they can to oppress black people. From slavery to 2019. This is why Baltimore and other cities like it are in the condition they are in.
@@frankyflowers you're actually wrong which shows you nothing about Africa. My sister went to Africa a few years ago and she said it was beautiful. I also have an African friend who used to live in america but left because he couldn't find a job. He went back home, found a job and is actually doing better then i am here in America.
I can see why David Simon locked horns with Baltimore 'leadership', they didn't like how he indirectly called them out through the Wire and he actually watered it down for the audience because it's a lot worse in real life.
But ask me just how much sympathy and/ or empathy I really have for anyone who would sell me poison without blinking an eyelash and then turn around and rob me? Answer: 0
Gimme a break. People on dope WANT AND NEED IT! So long as u don’t give it to kids, I see nothing wrong with it . I wouldn’t ever do it. But I am in recovery.
I have been to Baltimore a lot. I like it, I feel like the city is very nice and welcoming and has heart. Yet it is hurting bad. I hope one day it can become the amazing city it once was. But when you have conspiracy theories spouted by a guy drinking on the corner about the government just wanting to imprison youth there in is where a lot of the issues lay. And sorry but another documentary by the left blaming the right is now just cliche, and fails. Because is not the city Democratic? Plain and simple: Stop selling and doing drugs, focus on working and education, build up credit, stop impregnating everything and then raising kids in single parent shitholes, and make the city safe and attractive to investors and make the main government's focus on rooting out corruption.
Amen, Darnell. And some people talk about identifying root causes but they rarely go back all the way to Children having Children. It's obvious when you think about it, and our government supports this practice by giving benefits and making it at least comfortable for kids to have kids. Everything the child gets in life will be paid for by taxpayers. The parents are biological parents and that's it...they have no resources to offer their children.
Born and raised in Westside Baltimore. And to think and love the the fact that our National anthem was written about our city and state. A song that will literally bring tears to your eyes. And to see my city in absolute turmoil hurts me to the core.
My beloved city😢 it hurts so bad because I remember the good ol days. Before the drugs and the abandonment. Before the murder and the families destroyed by the streets. So many people have lost their lives and their minds. They’ve lost their dignity and their self respect. Drugs destroyed generations. So much death and sadness. You can’t get used to the pain. Young people who were full of life, parents and loved ones who had forever all gone. There’s no winner. Today you’re a killer and tomorrow you’re killed. That mayor was the kid of the mayor my grandmother voted for. The sitting mayor was fired and she was the interim mayor. On her watch the streets literally ran red. The city rioted. People are angry and upset because there’s no justice with BCPD. My 75 year old aunt was missing 6 months and they just recovered her remains up the street from where she went missing. They didn’t even talk to the neighbors for two weeks. No cameras pulled nothing. Just a phone call that she’s gone and we’re lucky we got that. Change the legislation and we change the city. I know that our parents and grandparents voted Democrat and we’re just go along but this time we can’t. The presidential election is just the beginning, we have to change the legislation, the people that decide what our babies eat in school, what they learn. How we’re treated and most importantly how our tax dollars are spent. There’s no accountability to us. Homeowners who literally rent our homes because of the crime and the schools. I was educated in the Baltimore public school system and I received a great education, the senior class at Patterson high school read on a kindergarten level. They can’t read. BLM my foot. How? When kids are dying in the streets? How? When you can’t even go out certain places because you know what it is. The mayor is young and he doesn’t know what to do. The city has fallen apart and needs a new scapegoat. When will accountability come? When will we begin to see the changes promised at each election? I’m not voting for anything if they don’t do what’s right for the people of the city. Shoutout to Donnie ❤
We exist in a perpetual cycle of crime and violence. Life in Baltimore will make you hard and desensitized to it . The majority of Black men who are middle aged have PTSD. Since 1959 the population has decreased 1,044,000 and it's still shrinking.
With 6 out of 10 black males living in a house with no father, no one should be shocked at the state of Baltimore. This is what the war on poverty has created.
I want to go and visit Baltimore. Any suggestions? which areas to avoid? and how bad is it ? are people getting pulled out of their cars by the red lights or getting car jacked?
Trump brought me here. I've passed Baltimore via Amtrak train whilst traveling to Washington from NYC and I never imagined this magnitude of problems the city is facing.
This is by design Trump will allow his rich buddies to go in and buy those houses or lots for very little money. When the area becomes regentrified they will charge high prices for rent forcing all of the black people out. This is happening in Brooklyn and other cities that are being regentrified. Ben Carson said that he is welcoming investors to buy homes and bring businesses to Baltimore. If and when this happens black folks in Baltimore will be displaced.
@@icu4life240 Might not be a bad thing, im born and raised east baltimore, still live here to this day. The blacks have turned Baltimore into one big open air drug market that fuels the gun violence and murder. Most cities the drugs and crime are in the one part of the city thats bad, like west philly for example...but Baltimore..doesnt matter if you're over east, west, northwest,southwest, southeast...etc...heroin and coke is being sold out in the open...Baltimore is nothing like any other city or place in America, its truly in a league of its own. So, for Baltimore..gentrification might not be worse thing that could happen. Gentrification > Heroin shops on every block...hmmm
After watching this documentary I only see the city of Baltimore sinking even lower as the years will go by . Unless people take control of their own lives and actions , this mess will never be solved .
Yup Once a great city, prior to getting married my wife worked 2 years in Baltimore city schools. We used visit often and do things there. Gun laws in Maryland are pure idiocy My Maryland trips are now 12-15 miles thru the state on 81 as I head south for VA, NC, SC, GA, FL that respect my rights
To the communities that are already rich. They should teach the criminals a trade and make them fix up some of those houses. The Government have these programs yet they are not utilizing them.
Ed Burns is wrong. The money given is not spent on the kids, its spent on booze, cigarettes, flashy clothes, and drugs. The kids get nothing. Listen to the common theme coming out of the mouth of these black men, they is no family structure, no male role models. At some point, you need to stop blaming everyone and look at yourself as a community.
Baltimore can easily be turned around, it does NOT start with education though. There’s a deeper issue that should be addressed and fixed. Certainly, they need to vote in people that will work for them though. I wonder if the fall of Baltimore coincides with Cummings eating elected...just saying.
I'm from Baltimore yes crime in the murder rate is horrible but I'm tired of them not even showing one good thing about the city not every poor black person is a drug dealer or a criminal
@ 5 mins. Dude, police officers aren't there to babysit. "They should have stayed". WTF do you expect police to do? I'd say stop these idiots from glorifying thug life. Also need better parents, less drugs and guns.
Great video. There are some facts that need to be checked, though. The drug problem and murder rates doubled well before the war on drugs. Children born to unwed mothers and fatherless families began well before the war on drugs. The insinuation that the war on drugs was the problem is not correct (though it did exacerbated the problem). I agree with solving the problem up front. But “helping mothers” isn’t the solution. Keeping fathers in the household is what needs to happen.
What's your evidence for this? It has had a 200+ murder rate since the 1970s sure, but it jumped up a lot in the early 90s, after years of the War on Drugs being the focus, and jumped again in 2015 (Freddie Gray?).
And, some of those biological fathers - if they did stick around, would they have any resources to provide their children anyway? I agree it would at least be better than no father.
Ur giving false hope to Baltimore, it truly is rat, drug and violent ridden state. Please pray for Baltimore. We The People Want This State a Beautiful One. Amen
It's going to take MEN to change our inner cities. MEN who have the street creds and experience to teach kids a better way. So what if these MEN have served time and have violent pasts. At least younger generations can associate with these MEN and vice versa. These MEN understand the streets and the youth will understand them. In particular the black MALE has the power to turn these places around but they themselves must be impowered. I emphasize MEN/MALE because obviously the mothers cannot do it alone. That's also a failed policy. A strong father figure is essential in the rearing of better youth. Give these former young criminals and gang members that have proven themselves to be true MEN, more authority and resources to reach the youth. If a kid sees a few MEN stand up for good and fight for their community and future it creates a winning attitude. One child turned from the life of crime, can change the lives of ten, can change the lives of hundreds, can change the lives of......... Employ these MEN. The streets are 24/7. They won't do it from an office. There need to be "gangs" for good where youth can be mentored by MEN.
A brother tried to start a new black panther party and they were labeled a black terrorist group. Can you imagine that someone wanted to try to clean up the ghetto, stop gang violence and teach young black boys how to be men was labeled a terrorist.
thats part of the problem, if the only people that they are going to listen to are people with street cred, then they are missing out on wisdom from millions of educated people. gangster rap music and hip hop as well as other media outlets are also complicit in helping ruin the black community.
I am here. I am one of those men. I would give my life to help change one child's life here. I grew up in Curtis Bay one of the deadliest neighborhoods in Baltimore. I was shot in the head when I was 16 and stabbed numerous times and many other brushes with death. Want to do something but I don't know what to do.
Sad but homelessness is very high. Impact of drugs is visible. Not being able to imagine another way of life is what takes the wind out of me. Most the people who try to explain the impact of the war on drugs fail to explain the issue. This documentary explains it.
It's an endless cycle and the war on drugs needs to end.... I live just outside of Baltimore I go to work in Baltimore every day.... I had my own struggles What substances that I overcame... The thing was I had Is a lot more help than The people of Baltimore... Like the guy says you do your time you come out come out and your homeless.... How in God's name can anyone get on their feet in that type of situation...... The only thing where the money is in Baltimore it's in Baltimore is the inner Harbor and the condos.... And Roland park..... Aside from that from kindergarten they Is our place in the worst schools with the worst teachers..... Is vaccine absolutely no hope on the horizon...... They see people graduate those schools only to work at McDonald's and Walmart and barely survive.... Logic tells you why kids team up with drug dealers.... Because the white people from suburbia are coming down with their money and is money and buying it..... And even when those kids make that money they don't have any idea what to do with it..... And of course competing drug cruise start and What you have in Baltimore is a 3rd world country..... It's not because of welfare or anything like that.... Is it strictly poverty misery is misery people lying in roaching rat infested houses.... I challenge anyone who's all high-and-mighty try to put yourself in that position in that position and see if you're not gonna pick something up something up that'll make you feel somewhat better
I don't want to hear some excuse that the people of Baltimore or any other major cities that they can't get away and do better. I'm from there and my best friend and I joined the military because we looked into the future. He retired navy living in Virginia and I drive a truck living in Texas
Don't you mean, autopsy of an American wasteland? Pittsburgh is in ruins too. And it has been for decades. Civic boosters, PR firms, promoters and spin doctors try mightly to brightside anyone that will listen, by repeating like a mantra, that Pittsburgh is a "success story", of an American city, that's "risen from the ashes", after the collapse of the steel industry in the mid 1980s. Well, I live in downtown Pittsburgh, and I can tell you beyond doubt, that Pittsburgh is certainly NOT a success story by ANY measure. No more than Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore or many other rustbelt ghost towns are. America has been in decline since the 1970s and now it mostly lies in ruins, gutted by the military industrial complex. It's NOT going to improve folks. Get ready for complete economic collapse and all of the horrific social upheaval that will follow as a consequence. Buy firearms. And, you'll notice, if you happen to have tried to purchase a firearm or ammunition lately, that supplies are low, and many retailers are sold out. Looks like a lot of Americans can see what's coming eh? Good luck!
I was taught as a kid not to touch my Dad’s guns because they are dangerous. When I became a teenager I had a friend that hunted my parents bought me a shotgun and taught me safety of using a gun. Never point a gun at anyone. Leave the gun empty until I’m sitting and waiting for game. Value life!
I've never read a more irrelevant comment ever. Do you think the issue for Baltimore is gun safety? Like the homicides are bad gun accidents. I don't understand your point. These young kids buy guns from the streets they don't steal them from their parents.
Get addicts off the street and clean so the dealers don't make thousands a day. Dealers get addicted to money just like a junkie & dope. It's just to convenient.
I advise everybody to read Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow "(the lady at the beginning of this doc. ). It's a great book that analyzes the governments involvement in the destruction of black communities not only in Baltimore but nationwide!
@Mário Gama REALLY.... Then what do you call the "WAR ON DRUGS "? U must don't understand what is really going on! Police agencies nation wide get federal funding to keep the war on drugs going, like the money that you just spoke about! One of those being the burne grant foundation! To buy weapons state ,of the art technology and other equipment to go after mostly black dealers! The tip of the spear for the war on drugs is aimed at urban environments, not the overwhelming amount of meth labs In all the rural towns across America! Why not? Actually Meth is more dangerous and addictive than crack cocaine! It's not because Black's are and have always been the target!... Also they give local and state police agencies incentives along with the funding... All of the proceeds from the war on drugs those agencies get to seize and keep to line their own pockets... All of the money taken from dealers which amounts to billions nationwide, nice cars, homes ect.! So for that reason targeting blacks and continuing the war on drugs will always be and will never end!
Sounds like a bunch of excuses to me nobody makes you break the law besides you there is tons of opportunity available for these people in these communities they're just too stupid to do anything with it they just want to play the victim place blame and get easy money
Today's gangsters, homeless, indigent; their grandfathers were successful workers. No work, no money, survive or die. A glimpse into our country collapsing. Who will survive? the poor people who found a way in the major cities today.
Ah yes, sending every person with a gram of weed to jail and then having those said people come out even more screwed up is completely genius. Just legalize pot already.
🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️ Bruh...I AGREE about complete decriminalization but that is NOT whats going on here. People are dying, and nearly all of it has nothing to do with weed...
@@eighterthabest9024 good point. Education, poverty and unemployment is the most important factors to rebuild Baltimore. But preventing kids from hitting the prison pipeline is important too, yeah?
@@dempsey2023 Welp, yes and no. A big yes for the education part. Which in turn should help the poverty/unemployment aswell. But even the concept of the "school to prison pipeline" is problematic imo. Because it almost always includes a purposeful dismissal of all personal responsibility and agency. Its quite literally telling children to "give up". That they have no choice but prison or death. Which obviously doesn't have to happen at all. What Baltimore and most places with this same problems needs is the education and a majority culture shift to go along with it to value the education. Contrary to what most would assume a lot of these areas already get more educational funding than less dangerous counterparts. The money is there. It could be done. Its just usually allocated to stop everyone from hurting eachother with metal detectors and security and all that. We need something major to happen to change a lot of people's whole mentality. To teach children to take advantage of the opportunities before them instead of retiring to the short life of drug dealing at 10 because the majority honestly believe the world will always be out to get them no matter what... Sorry for the kind of long comment. But that idea is so harmful anymore.
Hey, I noticed that when I log in and post under a specific video and later login again - my previous post shows up. But when I go back to the same video I just posted under (not logging in) and chose "most recent posts" my post is nowhere to to be found. So we have two versions of reality going on here.
I hate this "I have no choice" there is always a choice. You can get out of these places. these people probably (I say probably loosely) don't want out bad enough
Do you really believe that an 8 year old who has a crack addict for a mother does not want a better life bad enough what is a better life to that child whatever he sees and likes in the world he lives in if it's good than he will do good if it is bad than he will do bad, to the child a better life is something he knows nothing about
An 8 yr old doesn't know any better. And what is keeping that 8 yr old when he/she gets older to start fending for itself from just simply walking out of town? Again everyone has a choice, you can't lay victim and complain. These people choose to stay where they are at and do the things they do. It's their fault no one else's.
Hypothetically they'd resort to some other version of crime. Probably robberies since Baltimore does have an upper class. The truth is there's no real employment opportunities for these people besides minimum wage jobs.
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I grew up in Baltimore, and know it starts on the local level. To really turn that city around, you need a drug treatment center in every neighborhood paid for by drug war dollars. You need trade job skills training in every neighborhood and show people there's more than one way to make a good living then selling drugs. If someone gets sentenced to prison for a drug use/possession charge, the first 30 days of their incarceration needs to be done in a treatment program. And last but certainly not least, we need to reinforce the notion of fatherhood in this city. If a young man gets a girl pregnant, there needs to be a place he can go for advice and mentorship. We need to show these young men how to be fathers, even if that means not being a husband. We need parents for these kids because kids raising kids leads to chaos and it's what they have now. I once heard 2 young girls about 15-16 on a city bus in Baltimore talking about their plans for the future. I was on my way home from work and these girls got on at a stop in front of a community center and sat in front of me. The one girl said to her friend that she just had a talk with her mother and HER MOTHER told her she should get pregnant soon so that she can get her "own check" and her "own place", The other girl said that she was going to start having her babies soon too but was going to live with her momma because she had a section 8 house and it would help her mom get more money so they could get a car. I thought I was in the twilight zone and wanted so bad to tap them on the shoulders and tell them there was a better way. But I know how well that would have gone over. It occurred to me then and there that this level of poverty is a family cycle and is passed down like some kind of bad genetic disorder. This mindset is what needs to be addressed in Baltimore.
Yes I had a similar experience not as bad though I asked a young lady that had just graduated high school what she wanted to do after and she wanted to be a nurse. Nursing is a good job but I don’t think she thought she had another choice
You hit the nail on the head. I also think there should be more programs and opportunities for people fresh out of jail. Having a felony paradoxically makes it harder for someone to turn their life around, and they go right back to what they were doing before.
I know your eyes probably bucked up when they were talking… It is so sad and all your ideas are great!
I'm from Baltimore, I live on the westside.North avenue looks like a 3rd world country.Imagine growing up in this bleak environment.There was an 8yr old boy killed by an abandoned house that collapsed on him while he was walking home from school.Imagine waking up every morning to the drug dealers right at the end of your steps and the addicts in line waiting to get their fix.imagine the children who witness SEVERAL murders by the time they're 13.Looking at that type of violence and despair from the day your born every day, changes a person and rips any sense of hope of a future from you.There are soooo many aspects of what needs to be fixed its overwhelming.I think a lot of people have become so beaten down by it all that they've thrown their hands up and given up.its sad,so many didnt start out with this apathetic outlook on life,and want to do better but do not know where to start.
Cfuf aka center for urban families
I grew up in the housing projects too. But you know what, I'm not now. My parents were drug addict "crackheads". I personally made a decision when I was a child not to let that be my life. I finished high school and got a trade in Manufacturing. We can't keep blaming the "white man" for mistakes that you do yourself. The real reason why people stay in the projects is because you have been mentally programmed to think that nothing can be better than this. The government started it, but we didn't have to continue it. I'm a married father of 2 kids and I always wanted better for myself. It's not how you was raised, but it's how you choose to live. Simply 👌
This. My best friend from middle school through high school moved to my town from Baltimore. His father worked hard and got a really good job at a huge company so they moved. Had a nice house in a middle class, mostly white, area. He would tell me (back in the 80s) that they had to stop talking to most of their old friends because they were called sellouts (followed quickly by...can you give me some money?) His father would say that he used to worry about bullets coming through the walls, after the move, his biggest worry was keeping weeds out of his garden. Point being, his father worked hard and decided he wanted better.
Its not the government getting these 14 year olds pregnant. Or fathering 6 kids by 21 years old and not knowing any of them. Its not the government forcing kids to drop out of school. Stop expecting some "entity" to take care of your problems. Government is just a collection of people, not gods. They dont know any more than anyone else and are more concerned with keeping themselves and their party in power.
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There's a reason why Homicide, The Wire, etc. were filmed in Baltimore. The set/scene was already there. You didn't need a studio in Hollywood to create it. It already existed and was 100% real.
True story
The wire was filmed there because it really was based off the true story. Then used Avon's name etc but the truth is little Melvin's crew was the one who was using the codes on the pay phones.
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Fact
Thats why The Wire is a masterpiece. It showed people from the suburbs what the life is like. Hopefully people learned from it because like you said its legit real and can happen in any city, especially the longer its run by Democrats. Its like exponential with those guys.
Grew up in East Baltimore. I hear the saying so many times that “I sell drugs to support my family” yet I rarely saw one drug dealer selling drugs to legitimately support their family. Sure, they might throw a couple dollars here and there to family members but it was mainly for clothes, cars, females, and overall clout. We’re dealing young people who don’t look up to doctors, lawyers, or people who went to school to earn a good living. They look up to the drug dealers who have a lot of money and get it quick rather then spending years in school.
Then lose it quick when they catch a case...
@@BB-uu9oo Apparently not in Maryland they're to busy not prosecuting most cases due to witness intimidating or the witness simply turns up dead.
Sad but true
I live in Fells Point. It's rowdy, it's fun. People get shot, it's a black on black thing.
It's black on black. Don't tell me otherwise.
Sooooooo tired of the BS “system” excuses...as a 48 year old black man
Yea. Those excuses are getting old.
James why do you claim to be something you are defiantly not......Shameful
@@408965 evidence of your claim?
Your race doesn’t make your opinion any more valid in this case. Have you lived in Baltimore or a similar city?
It really is systematically white supremacy
Ed Burns is a genius! The Wire is one of the best written shows ever produced and a true depiction of Baltimore City.
I do not disagree the wire is one of the best shows but, The Corner set the stage for the wire, short but it really gives you a deeper look into the street of baltimore
I can smell your non-Baltimore vibes.
Burns is a retired Baltimore detective.
Most def
Born and raised in W Baltimore. The wire showed only a slice of my city. When and how many videos have you seen of successful students from these same neighborhoods that attend the universities in that same city? So what message is the media trying to send? How many videos have you seen like that? Do you follow me?
Philadelphia’s not much better.
It seems we ought to be more concerned about our own people in the US before we worry about asylum seekers and illegal aliens.
Couldn't agree more🇺🇸
Vivian Lee parts of Philadelphia are absolutely beautiful but that’s only one side of it; crime is rampant, people litter, the schools are often bad and for me personally the amount of homeless cats is staggering and very sad. You can get cats spayed and neutered for free but many people are too lazy to do it!
There are many blighted properties, homeless people, the roads are often barely drivable
Sure the architecture, parks, museums and restaurants are amazing but it takes more to make a city truly great.
Great point and its by design, and it started back in 1619, we was made least desirable thru a system that after our force forced servitude went unrewarded etc. Its by design end of story end of a race, and may the Universe have mercy on us all, peace and love anyway, sad sad sad.
Philadelphia is a lot, a lot, a lot better
America doesn't seem much better ........ 🇬🇧
It starts with us No one is caring wether we live or die so it’s up to us to better ourselves and communities!
It's called common sense!
your right because no one cares when italians or mexicans shoot each other and no one cares when blacks shoot each other of course its sad but the way people think is like you chose that life if you die that was the stakes you excepted so you gotta get rid of that mind set
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Our race has given up. They don’t care where they stay, how they look & Always complaining.
I lived in Baltimore for a while in 1969. It was a great city. Most of the crime was confined to an area called "The Block". There has been a constant decline in Baltimore and many other cities in America. This is primarily a cultural problem with no easy solutions. All of our cities are filled with nonfunctioning people. Addicts, mentally ill etc. People are going to have to take responsibility.
Also corruption problem…lots of corruption in local government & police department. Keep putting repeat violent offenders back on the street, crime will only get worse.
How much crime was on The Block other than minor alcohol offenses? The area must have been packed then
Doesn’t matter who’s in the White House in my opinion.
I grew up in poverty in Mississippi especially due to systemic issues. It got even worse in my neighborhood when the little jobs that we had left and went overseas in the 90s.
Tuff OleBird my state(Mississippi) has always been a red state for the most part and we’re still ranked as one of the top poorest states in the union.
500 years later and you're still in the same boat.
They're two arms of the same satanic beast Dem and repub
City and county representatives should be accountable of how they have used the government fundings, investigate the thieves!!!!
You racist😝
Part of the problem is that the city is independent, IE it's own county, so when people leave for the suburbs the tax base is gone for good.
A lot of the money was used to build the Inner Harbor in Baltimore. The Inner Harbor is really for white people. Most Black people living in the city can’t afford to go there. White people from the surrounding counties in Baltimore and tourist enjoy the Harbor. What’s done with the money made there is anyone’s guess.
M I the inner harbor is free, and there’s plenty of black people there? TF you taking about?
@@borismarkov1141 go to bed!!!🤐🤐🤪
Keep re-electing the same people you will keep getting the SAME AWFUL RESULTS....BALTIMORE!!!!
@@chairmanmeow3693 My comment was in NO WAY racial. The problems that exist in Baltimore exist in San Francisco and Seattle and parts of West Virginia and New England. BOTH parties are selling out the American people White and Black. Btw I AM a White guy. Keep your odious racism to yourself......You DIM BULB!!!!
@@chairmanmeow3693 I am black and I agree with you. There is something wrong with black people.
@@billhathaway2814 My comment wasn't racist either you DIMMER BULB!!!!
@@chairmanmeow3693 Your comment began by specifically insulting Black Americans. That alone is the definition of racist. The comment is un-American and reprehensible. I served in the United States military with people of all races including Black people. They always had my back and I had theirs. The stupidity of White racist commenters (SUCH AS YOU)never ceases to amaze me. You are the DIMMEST of ALL BULBS!!!!
@@billhathaway2814 Well, aren't you gonna say the same thing to AAron, Bill? He too specifically insulted black Americans. Is he (a black man) ALSO un American and reprehensible? Or is it just white people?
Rep. Elijah Cummings, you need to get primaried!! KICKED OUT OF OFFICE.
and Baltimore cannot tell us what they did with our Federal dollars
I am sitting in Baltimore this second
God help us
It's up to us Shaun
Hope you're armed to the teeth and ready to bug out at a moment's notice.
i like how they complain about nobody guiding the kids, while they drink alcohol on the side of the street
Nuthin wrong with chilling with friends and enjoying a drink...
No money for housing, food, or clothes. But, plenty to go around for cigs and alcohol.
You are so simpleminded
People aren’t necessarily drinking because they enjoy it. A lot of people in these poverty stricken areas are just trying to dull the pain of the loss and fear that they deal with everyday.
EXACTLY 🤣 daddy out there drinking and smoking
I have come here after the recent rant by the Cummings......
follower Marto me too. Oh wow this is sad. You can do it Baltimore
I also came here I had no idea.. this is akin to my hometown of Oakland. Same issues and the same blame game
from nz... coz the depth of corruption in politics everywhere is hurting every one of us. i came here coz of trump's comments..n because i've watched cummings super poor performances in congress....tho it's not just him, it seems. baltimore's last mayors seemed corrupt...n those before, apparently pelosi's relatives.when are baltomore voters going to realise that the long line of democrats has near killed this once thriving city . maybe trump's comments are truth...n truth sees no colour. i hope residents can reclaim their city.
Michele Bourke well said I do as well
Shame this is covered by Al Jazeera..... SHOULD SPEAK VOLUMES TO OUR MASS MEDIA!!!!
Lots of excuses, no responsibility. That's the ghetto game.
ben yosep haven’t and won’t and you won’t hear an excuse. Next?
ben yosep you think white ppl are the only ppl taking pills? That’s so ignorant
Facts. People need to take responsibility.
How can you when everything that's supposed to help you is not given... i live here in Baltimore..., I've also done 11yrs.., in the penitentiary here D.O.C. City Jail ect..., either you wasn't listening, or already formed your own opinion. When you are a target of so called society before you enter this realm call earth..., simply because of your color is beyond insanity... When you have people that get benefits and opportunities that's not even discussed in our communities..., and to top it off they're not even from this country..., I'm a true native of Turtle Island now called the United States, I'm Chickasaw, but not allowed to called myself by my native bloodline.., they call my people African Americans, and we are not African Americans, but prisoners of war, and the powers that be know this.... So explain your response not being us...???
@@LDBvision bro they’re not listening. They don’t want to know the truth, they’re either too stupid or willfully negligent. Just look at the original comment .. dude already made up his mind. Their could be no such thing as structural violence or systematic racism and oppression. They stick to their ignorant rhetoric
"Baltimore: Anatomy Of An American City Run By Liberals" I fixed the title.
there are a lot of nice cities run by liberals. i think the real problem would be racist to mention.
100% agreed.
This what I've telling folks that's our fate if we don't get out there and vote for the best, honest, and noblest Presidential Candidate we got.
Tim your title leaves out the fact that this country is run by white men who have done everything they can to oppress black people. From slavery to 2019. This is why Baltimore and other cities like it are in the condition they are in.
@@derricknregina what country are the blacks doing well in? its not the usa's fault. they are doing even worse in africa.
@@frankyflowers you're actually wrong which shows you nothing about Africa. My sister went to Africa a few years ago and she said it was beautiful. I also have an African friend who used to live in america but left because he couldn't find a job. He went back home, found a job and is actually doing better then i am here in America.
Once again, rewarding women who have babies without a father figure is what started this mess,(The Great Society) started by Linden Johnson.
Without HOPE sad.
Best to learn how to spell before insulting. You lose all credibility.
The planned utter destruction of the traditional family has all the earmarks of communism.
Yes sir!!! They tried to start it when Kennedy who in office 1st.
Living in the projects is not a reward
I can see why David Simon locked horns with Baltimore 'leadership', they didn't like how he indirectly called them out through the Wire and he actually watered it down for the audience because it's a lot worse in real life.
But ask me just how much sympathy and/ or empathy I really have for anyone who would sell me poison without blinking an eyelash and then turn around and rob me? Answer: 0
Don’t buy the poison lol
Gimme a break. People on dope WANT AND NEED IT!
So long as u don’t give it to kids, I see nothing wrong with it .
I wouldn’t ever do it. But I am in recovery.
Some dont understand the difference between right and wrong. You learn that from your dad.
I have been to Baltimore a lot. I like it, I feel like the city is very nice and welcoming and has heart. Yet it is hurting bad. I hope one day it can become the amazing city it once was. But when you have conspiracy theories spouted by a guy drinking on the corner about the government just wanting to imprison youth there in is where a lot of the issues lay.
And sorry but another documentary by the left blaming the right is now just cliche, and fails. Because is not the city Democratic?
Plain and simple: Stop selling and doing drugs, focus on working and education, build up credit, stop impregnating everything and then raising kids in single parent shitholes, and make the city safe and attractive to investors and make the main government's focus on rooting out corruption.
Children having children is the biggest problem!!!
Amen, Darnell. And some people talk about identifying root causes but they rarely go back all the way to Children having Children. It's obvious when you think about it, and our government supports this practice by giving benefits and making it at least comfortable for kids to have kids. Everything the child gets in life will be paid for by taxpayers. The parents are biological parents and that's it...they have no resources to offer their children.
I was born in Baltimore City my family moved out in 94 we moved to the eastern shore and salisbury is no different than Baltimore City
Cities of all population sizes are dealing with serious socioeconomic problems and shrinking tax bases.
All.America is the same
Born and raised in Westside Baltimore. And to think and love the the fact that our National anthem was written about our city and state. A song that will literally bring tears to your eyes. And to see my city in absolute turmoil hurts me to the core.
That’s wild to think about, I thought it was about the fort McHenry attack
Cummings ain't worried about his district never has never will.
we are dealing with five generations raised by Grandma.
My beloved city😢 it hurts so bad because I remember the good ol days. Before the drugs and the abandonment. Before the murder and the families destroyed by the streets. So many people have lost their lives and their minds. They’ve lost their dignity and their self respect. Drugs destroyed generations. So much death and sadness. You can’t get used to the pain. Young people who were full of life, parents and loved ones who had forever all gone. There’s no winner. Today you’re a killer and tomorrow you’re killed. That mayor was the kid of the mayor my grandmother voted for. The sitting mayor was fired and she was the interim mayor. On her watch the streets literally ran red. The city rioted. People are angry and upset because there’s no justice with BCPD. My 75 year old aunt was missing 6 months and they just recovered her remains up the street from where she went missing. They didn’t even talk to the neighbors for two weeks. No cameras pulled nothing. Just a phone call that she’s gone and we’re lucky we got that. Change the legislation and we change the city. I know that our parents and grandparents voted Democrat and we’re just go along but this time we can’t. The presidential election is just the beginning, we have to change the legislation, the people that decide what our babies eat in school, what they learn. How we’re treated and most importantly how our tax dollars are spent. There’s no accountability to us. Homeowners who literally rent our homes because of the crime and the schools. I was educated in the Baltimore public school system and I received a great education, the senior class at Patterson high school read on a kindergarten level. They can’t read. BLM my foot. How? When kids are dying in the streets? How? When you can’t even go out certain places because you know what it is. The mayor is young and he doesn’t know what to do. The city has fallen apart and needs a new scapegoat. When will accountability come? When will we begin to see the changes promised at each election? I’m not voting for anything if they don’t do what’s right for the people of the city. Shoutout to Donnie ❤
When you start looking to yourself to be held accountable and stop pointing at others to fix the problems, nothing will happen.
This man beard was soo nice. It has to be freshly dyed and cut.
I seems like many of these guys expect death and accept death in their community but don't try to change the culture of death. So sad.
I loved this. ...I lived in B’more for four years, and was blessed and made better by that experience. Much love.
God Bless You...
We are sick and tired of these fake politicians communities need to come together across the country
We exist in a perpetual cycle of crime and violence. Life in Baltimore will make you hard and desensitized to it . The majority of Black men who are middle aged have PTSD. Since 1959 the population has decreased 1,044,000 and it's still shrinking.
Trash taking itself out 😁
With 6 out of 10 black males living in a house with no father, no one should be shocked at the state of Baltimore. This is what the war on poverty has created.
I live in Baltimore and this video is years old and trust me it's gotten worse 🙃
I want to go and visit Baltimore. Any suggestions? which areas to avoid? and how bad is it ? are people getting pulled out of their cars by the red lights or getting car jacked?
Trump brought me here. I've passed Baltimore via Amtrak train whilst traveling to Washington from NYC and I never imagined this magnitude of problems the city is facing.
This is by design Trump will allow his rich buddies to go in and buy those houses or lots for very little money. When the area becomes regentrified they will charge high prices for rent forcing all of the black people out. This is happening in Brooklyn and other cities that are being regentrified. Ben Carson said that he is welcoming investors to buy homes and bring businesses to Baltimore. If and when this happens black folks in Baltimore will be displaced.
@@icu4life240 Might not be a bad thing, im born and raised east baltimore, still live here to this day. The blacks have turned Baltimore into one big open air drug market that fuels the gun violence and murder. Most cities the drugs and crime are in the one part of the city thats bad, like west philly for example...but Baltimore..doesnt matter if you're over east, west, northwest,southwest, southeast...etc...heroin and coke is being sold out in the open...Baltimore is nothing like any other city or place in America, its truly in a league of its own. So, for Baltimore..gentrification might not be worse thing that could happen. Gentrification > Heroin shops on every block...hmmm
After watching this documentary I only see the city of Baltimore sinking even lower as the years will go by .
Unless people take control of their own lives and actions , this mess will never be solved .
Yup
Once a great city, prior to getting married my wife worked 2 years in Baltimore city schools. We used visit often and do things there.
Gun laws in Maryland are pure idiocy
My Maryland trips are now 12-15 miles thru the state on 81 as I head south for VA, NC, SC, GA, FL that respect my rights
The buildings in Baltimore reminds me of ol slave quarters. Like a constant reminder of what has been.
Where have all the fundings for this city gone!!!!!!!!!!
To the communities that are already rich. They should teach the criminals a trade and make them fix up some of those houses. The Government have these programs yet they are not utilizing them.
In the pockets of our politics
@@icu4life240 Nope. You are wrong. And I’m from Baltimore.
I was in Baltimore yesterday and that has to be the ugliest city in the US. Nothing but abandoned buildings everywhere and junkies
Ed Burns is wrong. The money given is not spent on the kids, its spent on booze, cigarettes, flashy clothes, and drugs. The kids get nothing. Listen to the common theme coming out of the mouth of these black men, they is no family structure, no male role models. At some point, you need to stop blaming everyone and look at yourself as a community.
Baltimore can easily be turned around, it does NOT start with education though. There’s a deeper issue that should be addressed and fixed. Certainly, they need to vote in people that will work for them though. I wonder if the fall of Baltimore coincides with Cummings eating elected...just saying.
Wanna see a slum?? Look at Detroit. Sad how far that city has fallen over the decades.
@Taylor Gordon Detroit & Chicago have not had a Republican mayor since the 1960s.
Just another day living in the hood, just another day......
My HOMETOWN born and raised
I grew up in Baltimore from the 70s to the early 90s, it breaks my heart to see how wild Baltimore is now.
I'm from Baltimore yes crime in the murder rate is horrible but I'm tired of them not even showing one good thing about the city not every poor black person is a drug dealer or a criminal
THANK YOU! These problems need to be addressed, but people act like Baltimore doesn’t have relatively safe, wealthy areas also.
I live in Baltimore, its gotten worse in some parts and better in others
What’s the worst area of Baltimore to date ??📚📚🌴🌴
Always the west 🙄
@ 5 mins. Dude, police officers aren't there to babysit. "They should have stayed". WTF do you expect police to do? I'd say stop these idiots from glorifying thug life. Also need better parents, less drugs and guns.
They are expected to police
Instead of defining yourself by what you are, you have decided to tell everybody what you are not. That seems strange.
Great video. There are some facts that need to be checked, though. The drug problem and murder rates doubled well before the war on drugs. Children born to unwed mothers and fatherless families began well before the war on drugs. The insinuation that the war on drugs was the problem is not correct (though it did exacerbated the problem).
I agree with solving the problem up front. But “helping mothers” isn’t the solution. Keeping fathers in the household is what needs to happen.
FACTS!
And protesting and rioting over dead criminals killed by the police ain't helping one bit.
It was actually LBJ's "War on Poverty" that created the problem.
What's your evidence for this? It has had a 200+ murder rate since the 1970s sure, but it jumped up a lot in the early 90s, after years of the War on Drugs being the focus, and jumped again in 2015 (Freddie Gray?).
Fathers in the household wouldn't make a difference in these communities not one bit
Trumps right..Cummings needs to help that community and Trump is pushing him to do so.
Used to walk around baltimore, stop at every bar along my walk and drank one beer.... never got very far.......
23:33 "For seven days there were no black on black shooting." MadTV: Lowered Expectationnnnnnnnnnnnn
No father in the family. Nuff said.
And, some of those biological fathers - if they did stick around, would they have any resources to provide their children anyway? I agree it would at least be better than no father.
Sad demise of a strong American city!
Rip
Anyone whose been on the New York to Washington train will be familiar with Martin Luther king boulevard. Chris Rock was right.
Ur giving false hope to Baltimore, it truly is rat, drug and violent ridden state. Please pray for Baltimore. We The People Want This State a Beautiful One. Amen
Certain people idolize these environments!!
No one's there sitting on a park bench reading Socrates or starting book clubs neither legit businesses..... Just saying!
Actually my boyfriend reads Socrates but he's not from Baltimore nor black
I’ve been living in Baltimore for 17 years now, and I can tell y’all that it’s that bad.
The brother said it right
It does not matter who is in the White House
Republicans and Democrats are two different heads of the same snake.
Thanks you always tell the truth
It's going to take MEN to change our inner cities. MEN who have the street creds and experience to teach kids a better way. So what if these MEN have served time and have violent pasts. At least younger generations can associate with these MEN and vice versa. These MEN understand the streets and the youth will understand them. In particular the black MALE has the power to turn these places around but they themselves must be impowered.
I emphasize MEN/MALE because obviously the mothers cannot do it alone. That's also a failed policy. A strong father figure is essential in the rearing of better youth.
Give these former young criminals and gang members that have proven themselves to be true MEN, more authority and resources to reach the youth. If a kid sees a few MEN stand up for good and fight for their community and future it creates a winning attitude. One child turned from the life of crime, can change the lives of ten, can change the lives of hundreds, can change the lives of.........
Employ these MEN. The streets are 24/7. They won't do it from an office. There need to be "gangs" for good where youth can be mentored by MEN.
Excellent. Thank you. What can you do to help spearhead these programs? Please.
A brother tried to start a new black panther party and they were labeled a black terrorist group. Can you imagine that someone wanted to try to clean up the ghetto, stop gang violence and teach young black boys how to be men was labeled a terrorist.
thats part of the problem, if the only people that they are going to listen to are people with street cred, then they are missing out on wisdom from millions of educated people. gangster rap music and hip hop as well as other media outlets are also complicit in helping ruin the black community.
I am here. I am one of those men. I would give my life to help change one child's life here. I grew up in Curtis Bay one of the deadliest neighborhoods in Baltimore. I was shot in the head when I was 16 and stabbed numerous times and many other brushes with death. Want to do something but I don't know what to do.
🇺🇸 ❤️ TRUMP 2020! ❤️ 🇺🇸
Sad but homelessness is very high. Impact of drugs is visible.
Not being able to imagine another way of life is what takes the wind out of me.
Most the people who try to explain the impact of the war on drugs fail to explain the issue. This documentary explains it.
GOD ALMIGHTY HAVE MERCY AND SEVE THIS PEOPLE.
If you haven't lived in Baltimore or a place like it, you don't get to have a say.
BAAAHAAA 😂
Tell 1 in 3 black men to stop dealing drugs and death in their communities and they'll stay out of jail.
Right in the heart of the freest nation on earth.
You better believe it and they are wiping us out in large numbers consistently...and we think China has human rights problems
It's an endless cycle and the war on drugs needs to end.... I live just outside of Baltimore I go to work in Baltimore every day.... I had my own struggles What substances that I overcame... The thing was I had Is a lot more help than The people of Baltimore... Like the guy says you do your time you come out come out and your homeless.... How in God's name can anyone get on their feet in that type of situation...... The only thing where the money is in Baltimore it's in Baltimore is the inner Harbor and the condos.... And Roland park..... Aside from that from kindergarten they Is our place in the worst schools with the worst teachers..... Is vaccine absolutely no hope on the horizon...... They see people graduate those schools only to work at McDonald's and Walmart and barely survive.... Logic tells you why kids team up with drug dealers.... Because the white people from suburbia are coming down with their money and is money and buying it..... And even when those kids make that money they don't have any idea what to do with it..... And of course competing drug cruise start and What you have in Baltimore is a 3rd world country..... It's not because of welfare or anything like that.... Is it strictly poverty misery is misery people lying in roaching rat infested houses.... I challenge anyone who's all high-and-mighty try to put yourself in that position in that position and see if you're not gonna pick something up something up that'll make you feel somewhat better
20:50 "I'm 42 years old, retired rapper." Seriously...What?
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I don't want to hear some excuse that the people of Baltimore or any other major cities that they can't get away and do better. I'm from there and my best friend and I joined the military because we looked into the future. He retired navy living in Virginia and I drive a truck living in Texas
Bodymoremurderland 410 I love my city we got alot of passion and we love our Ravens and nobody in the 🌎 does seafood crabs especially like us
Don't you mean, autopsy of an American wasteland? Pittsburgh is in ruins too. And it has been for decades. Civic boosters, PR firms, promoters and spin doctors try mightly to brightside anyone that will listen, by repeating like a mantra, that Pittsburgh is a "success story", of an American city, that's "risen from the ashes", after the collapse of the steel industry in the mid 1980s. Well, I live in downtown Pittsburgh, and I can tell you beyond doubt, that Pittsburgh is certainly NOT a success story by ANY measure. No more than Detroit, Cleveland, Baltimore or many other rustbelt ghost towns are. America has been in decline since the 1970s and now it mostly lies in ruins, gutted by the military industrial complex. It's NOT going to improve folks. Get ready for complete economic collapse and all of the horrific social upheaval that will follow as a consequence. Buy firearms. And, you'll notice, if you happen to have tried to purchase a firearm or ammunition lately, that supplies are low, and many retailers are sold out. Looks like a lot of Americans can see what's coming eh? Good luck!
I was taught as a kid not to touch my Dad’s guns because they are dangerous. When I became a teenager I had a friend that hunted my parents bought me a shotgun and taught me safety of using a gun. Never point a gun at anyone. Leave the gun empty until I’m sitting and waiting for game. Value life!
I've never read a more irrelevant comment ever. Do you think the issue for Baltimore is gun safety? Like the homicides are bad gun accidents. I don't understand your point. These young kids buy guns from the streets they don't steal them from their parents.
The Met theater , with the flower behind the man in the hoodie , North Ave an penn ave, it's all torn down,, free movies for me.
Yeah, don't invest in any opportunities but a nicer place of incarceration !?
I love my CITY. Baltimore raised. 💯💯💙
Me 2 410 bodymoremurderland till I die
And you fools are bragging this? 🙄
What can we do to help Baltimore?
Don't vote Democrat
Dont vote Democrat
Don't vote period because they're all selected not elected.
Get addicts off the street and clean so the dealers don't make thousands a day. Dealers get addicted to money just like a junkie & dope. It's just to convenient.
Preferably NOTHING. The trash is taking itself out 😁
In 2020 nothing has changed. What wrong with this picture.😷
How about having less kids? It would change things for the better dramatically!
bigart1993 - instead of numbering the kids in a numeral way, people should only have babies if they can take care of them.
All of America is deteriorating!! No one can stop it's fall
Chicago, California, Baltimore... liberalism.
Also a high rate of diversity. Another characteristic of these places: Whites are either in the minority or below 70% of the population.
Stop committing crimes, it’s that simple, you won’t go to prison. If you community is good move, real genius
I advise everybody to read Michelle Alexander's book "The New Jim Crow "(the lady at the beginning of this doc. ). It's a great book that analyzes the governments involvement in the destruction of black communities not only in Baltimore but nationwide!
I heard about that book. Have to read it. Truth be spoken
@Mário Gama REALLY.... Then what do you call the "WAR ON DRUGS "? U must don't understand what is really going on! Police agencies nation wide get federal funding to keep the war on drugs going, like the money that you just spoke about! One of those being the burne grant foundation! To buy weapons state ,of the art technology and other equipment to go after mostly black dealers! The tip of the spear for the war on drugs is aimed at urban environments, not the overwhelming amount of meth labs In all the rural towns across America! Why not? Actually Meth is more dangerous and addictive than crack cocaine! It's not because Black's are and have always been the target!... Also they give local and state police agencies incentives along with the funding... All of the proceeds from the war on drugs those agencies get to seize and keep to line their own pockets... All of the money taken from dealers which amounts to billions nationwide, nice cars, homes ect.! So for that reason targeting blacks and continuing the war on drugs will always be and will never end!
It's always somebody else fault.
Sounds like a bunch of excuses to me nobody makes you break the law besides you there is tons of opportunity available for these people in these communities they're just too stupid to do anything with it they just want to play the victim place blame and get easy money
Today's gangsters, homeless, indigent; their grandfathers were successful workers. No work, no money, survive or die. A glimpse into our country collapsing. Who will survive? the poor people who found a way in the major cities today.
Ah yes, sending every person with a gram of weed to jail and then having those said people come out even more screwed up is completely genius. Just legalize pot already.
Weed is decriminalized in Maryland
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Bruh...I AGREE about complete decriminalization but that is NOT whats going on here. People are dying, and nearly all of it has nothing to do with weed...
@@eighterthabest9024 good point. Education, poverty and unemployment is the most important factors to rebuild Baltimore. But preventing kids from hitting the prison pipeline is important too, yeah?
@@dempsey2023 Welp, yes and no. A big yes for the education part. Which in turn should help the poverty/unemployment aswell. But even the concept of the "school to prison pipeline" is problematic imo. Because it almost always includes a purposeful dismissal of all personal responsibility and agency. Its quite literally telling children to "give up". That they have no choice but prison or death. Which obviously doesn't have to happen at all. What Baltimore and most places with this same problems needs is the education and a majority culture shift to go along with it to value the education. Contrary to what most would assume a lot of these areas already get more educational funding than less dangerous counterparts. The money is there. It could be done. Its just usually allocated to stop everyone from hurting eachother with metal detectors and security and all that. We need something major to happen to change a lot of people's whole mentality. To teach children to take advantage of the opportunities before them instead of retiring to the short life of drug dealing at 10 because the majority honestly believe the world will always be out to get them no matter what...
Sorry for the kind of long comment. But that idea is so harmful anymore.
How does the mother look healthy, but the baby is starving? Something isn't adding up.
Better title: Baltimore; Failure of the welfare state in an American city
Always consider the source of a story. Thus said, remember this is Al Jazeera.
Yes Al jerzeea staged all of this
So its ok to shoot each other and other innocent victims but as soon as an officer does, its not ok.. Humm. Strange way of thinking.
Black people are not a hive mind. We don’t all live in Baltimore and we don’t all own guns. Makes no sense to equate BLM to inner city violence. 🙄
Donnie Andrews 7:37 is who the character Omar was based on in the wire... he was in the show to himself
This goes to back to the decision of the individual.
Exactly!
Hey, I noticed that when I log in and post under a specific video and later login again - my previous post shows up. But when I go back to the same video I just posted under (not logging in) and chose "most recent posts" my post is nowhere to to be found. So we have two versions of reality going on here.
I hate this "I have no choice" there is always a choice. You can get out of these places. these people probably (I say probably loosely) don't want out bad enough
Do you really believe that an 8 year old who has a crack addict for a mother does not want a better life bad enough what is a better life to that child whatever he sees and likes in the world he lives in if it's good than he will do good if it is bad than he will do bad, to the child a better life is something he knows nothing about
An 8 yr old doesn't know any better. And what is keeping that 8 yr old when he/she gets older to start fending for itself from just simply walking out of town? Again everyone has a choice, you can't lay victim and complain. These people choose to stay where they are at and do the things they do. It's their fault no one else's.
@@TheCommander2Cool What you are saying couldn’t be further form the truth.
@@cherismith6366 there is a choice in everything we do throughout our daily lives, there is no excuse of why we can/can't do anything
Hypothetical: What if the drug supply completely drys up and there is no drugs to sell; what happens????
Then they should trace their root back to oshodi Lagos and rent shops and start e new life
Hypothetically they'd resort to some other version of crime. Probably robberies since Baltimore does have an upper class. The truth is there's no real employment opportunities for these people besides minimum wage jobs.
Stop proving North Korea right, Baltimore.
What those Korea have to do with Baltimore you clown
Imagine al Jazeera's covering bmore .where it s the local news.