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Cheese Sandwich

(9,086 posts) Thu Oct 8, 2015, 12:59 PM Oct 2015

Baltimore Police Commissioner Stunned by Poverty in Baltimore

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis:

"Poverty in Baltimore is pronounced. And I'm a lifelong Marylander. And you know, I'm 46 years old. I had not been in certain communities in Baltimore City my entire life, and I've been introduced to those communities since I've been here in January. And the poverty--you wouldn't think that a community like that would still exist in this country, quite frankly. The housing, the poverty, the drug addictions, the hopelessness. So you know, Baltimore is a far different city than DC."