lol cats who used to just have fist fights are now shooting folks.the mafia would rather wholesale stuff there if anything. no way they could/or want come into a city with hundreds of known shooters and get into a bloody war. here is another thing the same neighborhoods were dangerous in 1973. But that is also home to one of the largest middle class black communities in America. everybody I know there who finished high school or college is making there. The get high crowd or jailbirds are not making it. I just went to my 40th high school reunion there. Baltimore lost about 100,000 well paying jobs by 1995. the heroin game was ran by older men not kids back in the day.