Violence on the streets of Baltimore, Maryland has been a problem for a very long time and we’ve covered it here extensively. The annual murder count has been slowly but steadily rising for the past decade or more. You literally have a better chance of living the day out on the streets of Kabul. But there has been one notable shift in the violent crime statistics that is perhaps even more alarming. Both the people being shot and the ones doing the shooting are growing increasingly younger on average. This led Lee Sanderlin of the Baltimore Sun to declare that Charm City is experiencing “a new type of violence.”Read More