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Today, Baltimore recorded its 100th murder of this year - making it the second most lethal year to date. A tradition of street memorials now finds tokens on far too many corners. Here, one year ago today, a young man was shot and killed. The nearby shopkeeper was forced to permanently close his store because he stepped over the body trying to get away from the carnage, seen locally as a sign of disrespect. M10 28mm. Grain and heavy vignette added in post for effect.

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Coos -

 

Very well done. 

 

Part of Baltimore's problem which doesn't effect that many US cities anymore is the failure of the city to have lead based interior paint removed from residences. Huh?  In 1973 most of the US banned lead in interior residential paint, and banned lead in gasoline.  Europe did much the same thing.  Early exposure to lead (such as toddlers eating flakes of sweet tasting lead paint, or breathing in the tetraethyl lead in gasoline) leads to impulse control 15 to 20 years later.  Sure enough, most of the US and Europe experienced a reduction in violent crime beginning in the late 1980s, and which Rudy Giuliani took credit for in NYC in spite of it's beginning a few years before his taking office, as well as being country-wide.

 

There are other reasons for Baltimore's problems, but we cannot indulge in those discussions in the forum.

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Allan, Stuart, Gelatino, OR120, Tim - thank you all for your comments. Stuart, you are right. Lead mitigation is an ongoing issue. In food desert areas with open fields, the ground is too toxic too plant edible species. To the others - life is seemingly cheap in some circles. Death comes at the point of a bullet for no reason - not even an argument at times. The violence in this city sears deeply as it undermines the last vestiges of hope for those unable to escape the"neighborhoods" unequally affected. It has nothing to do with legal or illegal guns, they are simply an instrument of primal disaffection at this point. We need education, we need respect for not only life itself but for each other, we need to instill a sense of future and opportunity. Baltimore needs to be able to know that there is a difference between dreams and nightmares...and that dreams are attainable. Only then, will this nightmare of death and lifelong disability wane. And only then will the street no longer be wet with tears and blood - and the dissonant songs of loved ones wailing be silenced. The photograph...can't share that sound. But once heard, nothing ever can fully silence it.

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