New crime statistics released by the FBI put Baltimore’s 2017 homicide rate well above that of any other large American city, making it an anomaly in the national crime landscape for U.S. cities with populations over 500,000 people. The 342 homicides committed last year in Maryland’s biggest city yielded a punishing homicide rate of 56 […]

Cities that have been saddled with high murder rates in the past are still witnessing a spike in those numbers this year