I go to a number of news websites in certain American cities every day. That includes Milwaukee in my home state of Wisconsin. Milwaukee is about the same size as Baltimore population-wise. Virtually every time I go there, I read stories of shootings, stabbings, robberies, car-jackings in the black section of the city.
It's not just confined to Baltimore or Chicago, it's nation-wide. It's time leaders quit dancing around the issue and address it honestly. That includes Trump.
I look at the demographics in the nearest large town (it's under 100K, so few out there count it as a 'city', although it's the closest thing we have) which got a huge influx of people from all over during the oil boom. As crime goes, there has always been some. A homicide every few years, once in a rare while a shooting, maybe an armed robbery every year or two.
Needless to say, (and partly by virtue of TV specials on the area which portrayed it as a hotspot for criminals where anything goes because LEOs were overwhelmed) a significant criminal element came chasing the relative wealth of prosperity. Crime went up, but the color of the perpetrators changed. Most--not all--of the shooters, murderers, and rapists were now black, a demographic which is still a small one in that town. Prior to that influx, though, there were black people living there, but almost never in the news for criminal activity. The change is because of relatively new arrivals.
Despite MSNBC re-airing that series of bullshit shows (especially BS because the boom is over, LEOs have caught up, and are ferreting out the drug dealers and thieves daily), crime is going back down there overall, but that media bomb dropped on a small town having enough problems with more than doubling in size due to the boom is something I will never forgive the assh*les in mass media for, and every time they re-run that tripe my enmity for them grows. They created a crime problem in an area that really didn't have one, one that would not have happened on the scale which it did without them. Most of the people who came here came here to work, and when the jobs dried up, went elsewhere looking for more work. The criminal element is not so quick to leave.