Since 2015, 2,000 people have been killed in Baltimore and the leaders, some of whom campaigned on saving lives, are no longer putting a timeline to stopping the bleeding.
On the campaign trail, then-City Council President Brandon Scott said if elected, he wanted to cut the homicide rate down in his first term of office.
“I will aim to reduce homicides by 15% each year in my term getting us below 300 homicides in my first year as Mayor,” said Scott in January 2020.
On January 5, 2020, Scott appeared on FOX45 News’ Morning Show and made it very clear who he thought was responsible for steering the crime rate in the right direction.
“Remember, only the mayor can direct the agencies. The council’s job is oversight. We highlight the issues. We bring up the issues what we should be focused in on is the mayor,” Scott said. “Who the mayor has been. The mayor is responsible, despite what anyone else will tell you.”
The revolving door of mayors of Baltimore City has been spinning for decades. Shelia Dixon was at the helm in 2009 when Baltimore had 238 people killed. Dixon resigned and Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was sworn in on Feb. 4, 2010. That year, 223 people were killed.
Under Rawlings-Blake’s leadership, the homicide total went from 196 in 2011 to 211 in 2014. In 2015, the homicide total spiked and launched the 300-plus homicide trend the City is currently on; 344 people were killed in Baltimore in 2015, the last full year with Stephanie Rawlings-Blake as mayor.
Catherine Pugh won election and was sworn-in on Dec. 6, 2016; a year that ended with 318 people killed. In 2017, Pugh was mayor when the City had the highest homicide rate per capita: 343 people killed. That number dropped to 309 in 2018 and the year Pugh resigned, 2019, 348 people were killed.
Mayor Jack Young was in office for the majority of 2020. That year, 335 people were killed and then Brandon Scott was sworn in on Dec. 8, 2020.
So far in 2021, the City is pacing ahead of last year. To date, 125 people have been killed in Baltimore, that’s eight more than this time last year and the non-fatal shootings are up as well; 254 people have been shot, not fatally, in 2021 which is 42 more than this time last year.
When asked what went wrong from the time on the campaign trail to now, Mayor Scott said there’s not a simple answer to stopping the violence in Baltimore.
What do all of these Mayor’s have in common?
They all seem to think bragging about achieving high score is ok.
nothing new to see here, move along! another day in the jungle!
Democrats have created a situation where blacks cannot be held accountable or arrested in higher percentages than other races despite the fact is blacks commit 60 percent of crime and are only 13 percent of the population
What do all of these Mayor’s have in common?
Those running shouldn’t, those voting have no clue.
Lather, rinse, repeat!
How much money have they taken away in their defunding of the Police?
Could that be a reason along with the change in reasons for an arrest and lack of sentencing / punishment?
Democrat agenda