Probably not a typical democrat-republican issue.
Gangs seem to be taking over the Baltimore Metro area. In downtown they inhabit the parking garages and hastle/ anoy demand money from patrons.
In the Inner Harbor, they extort money from tourists.
Late late year a group attacked a women on a bus and disfigured her.
In the suburban high schools, and middle schools ,they intimidate students.
Yesterday, a very sad event in Columbia, MD--2 youths one 16, and one 14 years old, attacked another student and killed him as he tried to egt away. The victims's parents had recently changedm his HS to get away from the same group of gang thugs who eventually killed him.

So what is the answer? How does we as a society get control?

Oh, by the way, all of these incidents were black on white crime--although the news never reports that. If the races were reversed, Jesse, and the race-hustlers would be all over it, but when blacks are the perpertrators, you can't even call it a hate crime. Does that PC reporting help with a solution, or does it mask the problem?

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