JC. Faulk, a longtime community activist, finds the violence all around him in Baltimore not just horrifying, but outrageous.
“There’s no accountability,” Faulk fumed, looking back at the last three years in which the city’s arrest rate has been strikingly low, while there’s been nearly a killing a day.
A seven-year-old girl. A cheerful 26-year-old former college football star. A bartender slain as he walked home from celebrating his 27th birthday.
City leaders, Faulk said, “need to own” not just the spike in murders, but the muggings, carjackings, robberies and drug-dealing that seem to be taking place with impunity.
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