The same phenomenon occurred in other cities, especially where elected Democrats declined to support police and backed protests against them.
“Spikes in homicides in Baltimore, Chicago and the District of Columbia accounted for more than half of the national increase in killings in the 30 largest cities in 2015, according to a final analysis of yearly crime data by New York University School of Law’s Brennan Center for Justice,” the Baltimore Sun noted in April 2016.
"Times magazine article, “The Tragedy of Baltimore,” by Alex MacGillis, described “the crackup of an American city”:
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