I mean their actual skills of they had not been a council person.

Most Baltimore City council people are incredibly untalented and have never had a significant non gov job.

Council member as a jobs program. I'm dead.

To your other point -- very few wealthy people on country council in Baltimore region. I'm sure there are some but I can't think of 1. It's certainly not anything near a majority.

Counter argument: surrounding counties with part time council members ALL have better constituent services than any Balt City district. (Balt Co isnt great, but I mean AA, Howard, Carroll, and Harford.)

Bad county council people in surrounding counties also are challenged and lose primary elections, unlike in the city. Harford District E is an example from this past cycle.

In other counties, council, council president, etc are part time jobs paying like 40k. There is a separate full time county exec who often has a staff of civil service people with relevant experience who administer the county business. A lot of the the council people are long time workers and business people who have "skin in the game" and are not living off the people.

Furthermore, in the city, all these full time council people have staffs of handpicked people who eventually get on the city dole in permanent positions. There are still a LOT of remnants of failed past city administrations (e.g. SRB and Young, who were both council pres before becoming mayor and utterly failing at it) In the surrounding counties, the jobs these people do, like constituent services, are handled by full time (career) county employees.

In the city, it takes interventions from council members to fix embarassingly basic issues like street lights, trash pick up, trucks on residential street,etc precisely bc it's a political patronage system rather than a well functioning govt. When a problem is finally addressed, residents clap like well trained aquarium seals instead of realizing the problem would've been dealt with immediately if the city was run properly.

The big problem is, for most (if not all) of these city council people, the city council salary is better than they've ever made, or basically the best they could do. Some (again, nearly all) have only worked for the govt and have zero experience outside gov jobs. This includes the mayor. Also, Dorsey, Cohen, Torrance, Costello, and a whole bunch of others.

The effects are obvious with the way the mayor and council operate. A lot of grandstanding and meaningless sound bites with rather little substance.

Once you go a couple blocks north you're ddh whether you know it or not. I doubt a single yt redditor would voluntarily live (long term) more than a block of two above the park. (This doesn't count ppl who live there bc of budget limitations)

During Sheila Dixon admin it was more like 150 less murders than now. And that was with a higher lethality rate (less ppl being saved at JH and Shock Trauma)

Shootings (fatal and nonfatal) are way higher now.

North of the park really isnt in the L. At best its the margins. Youngans man corners and guard drop points just blocks away. Like 1-2 blocks

Anyone saying this is naive. That's 05 zone up there, you're mere blocks away from ddh

In daylight it's mostly ok, but whem dusk hits, let alone late night, be careful and stay in groups

2008 until like 2015 was very different than now. Dixon years and beginning of SRB before she fucked it up.

So sorry for your loss and for your friends as well.

I hope they get support. I think the these situations are worse in Baltimore because it's unlikely the killers will be found and even less likely they'll receive actual consequences.

The dirt bike unit was disbanded due to staffing issues (shortages). A bunch of other specialized units also.

You don't think the Baltimore SA's office messes up??

I mean FARMS rates in the public school system.

Baltimore County poverty rate and Title I schools is approaching what City has now.

The county also has a high overall enrollment and more black students then city schools.

To finish up your last paragraph...

Even if you are caught, you're not 18, so unless it provides citywide notoriety, you'll be home by dinner time and it's not going to affect you after 18.

300+ murders a year is the defining characteristic of the Scott admin. They've normalized it. At least when it happened under SRB, she didn't run for reelection and left politics. And Young / Pugh considered the 300+ homicides job #1 (though they failed at it). With Brandon Scott it's just seemingly accepted.

"fuck those poors"

Good plan, man.

Yes another 325+ every yr we have this mayor and council

"y'all, we gotta do better"

• mayor Brandon Scott

Dixon was the best candidate and would've been the most effective mayor.

They get pushed to middle river, essex, whitearsh/perry hall, parkville, timonium, cockeysville, owings mills, etc.

Lots of section 8 in Baltimore county now.

BPD might catch the kids, heck they probably would know who it is because it's not likely their first time. However, it's not going to result in any real consequences for the youth.

She specifically said she's Latina.

A lot goes unreported here.

Also Baltimore City doesn't have a huge college age population or vacation business relative to other cities that rank highly for that.