I agree. The City has become not too safe these days. While I do not in any way claim their behavior is acceptable.........where are the parents?? And where do these kids have to go?? Most Rec Centers are closed.......if the Mayor would spend her time and the City's resources on finding alternatives for these kids....perhaps this would not be happening.......but no....lets promote a "Grand Prix"........How about we promote the kids in Baltimore City for a change!!

Right... so it's not "get going on schools/parks/jobs" or cooperate with the city on perceptions of crime, but rather hire police... to do what, round up the "black youths" so that tourists from Baltimore County can feel safer eating at Hooters?

Seriously Jim? How about you put some hard information behind your "County vs City" rhetoric... I understand that you want to address the fears that some of your county constituents have of "black youths" - but is deploying the State Troopers in Harborplace really solving anything? If you have a plan with substance, something beyond pandering to racial fears and fostering this City vs County nonsense, I'm all ears... but otherwise, I think you just jumped on-board the McDonough crazy train.

Been out on 695 lately. The noise from the racing bikes is unbearable and the numbers and speeds are unbelievable. I never see the MSP. It used to be they had three troopers for all of 695 and 83.

I wonder if the Co. and the MSP still have that misguided agreement over jurisdiction.

Although I see a huge problem in the city, check your resources before committing them.

Here is the solution for Baltimore CIty's problems. Do what I do...I never go there. Since I retired in January 2004, I have been within the Baltimore City Limits exactly 1 time and that was for 39 minutes. My feet were on the ground in Baltimore City for a total of 9 minutes. A neighbor (who had moved from Baltimore City a few years before) had the misfortune of having their daughter pass away at age 39 after a long illness. She taught school at a parochial school on Falls road and they decided to have her viewing at a funeral parlor near the school so that her students could pay their respects. It took me 15 minutes to drive there. I got out of my car and entered the incredibly crowded funeral parlor. Signed the visitor's book. Said hello to my neighbor and his wife and gave them our condolences, then quickly left. Another 15 minute drive to the safety of Baltimore County and that was it.

Even though I have a permit to carry a concealed firearm, I never enter the City under any circumstances. If it were not for the fact that our children and grandchildren live in Baltimore County we would move full time to our home in Kentucky.

Having the MSP patrol Baltimore City would be a colossal waste of time because none of the "at risk youth" who might be arrested by them would never receive any meaningful punishment.

There is absolutely no reason to go into the city. And if you have not noticed the city is encroaching into the county, be careful. The only way to deal with this is to follow Florida and Arizona and relax the carry laws. The youth of the city would think twice if they even thought the person they were about to commit a crime on was carrying a weapon. Politicians take note RELAX THE CCW LAWS !!!

The county ever walk down eastern ave. In essex at night. Not to safe anymore

Sorry, but carrying a concealed weapon won't make anyone any less of a coward or any less of a racist. You can't protect yourself from your own irrational fears that way and you can't avoid them by hiding in "the safety of Baltimore County." I'm in the city all the time and I never have any serious concerns about the "youth of the city" or any "at risk youth" - but then, I'm an adult.

It's time we let go of this fallacy that crime is about "black youths" who only exist inside a line on a map, or that you are any safer on one side of that line than you are on the other. We can address the real issues head-on and without prejudice, or we can choose to ignore them - but let's stop stoking fears or stroking political points, it isn't constructive at all...

Shame on the parents of these children who lack the responsibility to teach them appropriate behavior and allowing them to run freely. This is an obvious discipline problem and it stems from the terrible parenting and poor education system, which leads to many skipping school or dropping out and also the huge crime from people of such a young age. I hate going in the city for this reason and I am terrified something bad is going to happen to me whenever I am. Call me a racist or whatever you want but it is 100% true. Many of my friends and acquaintances have been victims of serious crimes and it has made me angry that something hasnt been done and our political leaders are more worried about someone making a racial slur rather than fixing our failing system. Increased police presence is needed but also more options for these kids for positive activities rather than just running freely in the city and getting themselves in trouble.

White racists should stay out of the city until they shed their racism.

Google actor Bill Cosby's comments about black youth culture in our cities. Fear of the City and ''black youth mobs'' isn't about racism. Residents of Perry Hall include every race and ethnic background. It's about a real problem in the city that yes affects black youth and according to Cosby is related to the culture there that impacts black youth. Baltimore City is a horrifying place. I brought European tourists through Baltimore City and some were literally crying when we made a wrong turn about 2 blocks from the Inner Harbor. There are needles everywhere, people that come at you from nowhere, prostitutes, drug pushers, sounds of gone fire -- all at once and no exaggeration. Police presence is needed and so is tougher punishments. But the police presence is needed to protect innocent civilians. Chaos can not be allowed to continue.

I moved to Baltimore County less than a year ago and I've gone into Baltimore exactly twice. Once at night for dinner with a friend and during the day I went to Fort McHenry. I can only assume that Mayor Rawlings-Blake is running the city in the way that she sees best and non-Baltimore City residents need to either accept that or find other ways to amuse and entertain themselves. There is no need for outside authority figures to encroach on the mayor's management style.

If you really look at the politically correct nature of the past 20 years; you will find a direct correlation to Baltimore City youth (majority black) and the rise in crime and youth running uncontrolled and wild in the city.

During the early 1990's there was a huge shift in education and what is taught and how it is taught. Also over the years we saw on tv and heard all this pc crap that was aimed at boosting up the black culture: "African American" instead of Black American, "Kings and Queens" of the world instead of normal humans just like the rest of us, "We built America at the hands of slavery", "We are owed", "Black youth are victims of society and white culture", "Black youth are just trying to get by so crime and gangs is an unfortunate necessity to support their families", "Black Americans are unjustly targeted by police", "Black youth are misunderstood", "If black youth had parks and basketball courts everything would be fine", ect ect. ALL of these PC messages have brainwashed all Americans that are not Black to feel sorry and ashamed (White Guilt).

Meanwhile; laws have changed to assist criminals and limit the ability of police to do there job. These youth now feel bulletproof and they are never to blame. To assist the problem, their parents seem to no longer care about what their children are doing and could careless about teaching true morals and values; instead, the parents raise their children to act as if they are victims and entitled.

We don't need another committee or expensive lunch and then wait 6 months for an answer. The city was dead after the riots in the 60's. Downtown was always busy with shoppers, you could walk around at night and get a corned beef sandwich at 2:00am on Lombard St. After the riots people left and businesses followed. When you drive through the City today it looks like a bombed out shell similar to WWII. The government workers on Lombard Street who work in the Fallon Bldg get robbed on their lunch hour for over 20 years. Someone suggested over 10 years ago to bring in the National Guard, but that was shot down. Igo into the City once in awhile and the I get the hell out of Dodge. I went to England in 79 and the British called the US the wild wild west. What can I say.

We no longer go into the city. We haven't been to a Ravens or Orioles game in years. Nothing could make us ever want to venture into the city again. I would love to go to the Hippodrome or the Lyric to see a show now and then. But, we just won't do it. The last time we went to the Lyric, there was a shooting about three blocks away, occurring at about the same time we were walking to our car. The State Police aren't going to help the situation. I don't think the National Guard could do much to help the situation. Baltimore City is dying a slow, agonizing death; and taking much of the surrounding counties along with it.

That being said, we very rarely venture into the White Marsh Mall area either. I had a close call there a few weeks ago when someone tried to get into my car. It is quickly going the way of Baltimore City.

The hoods in the city that breeds and bleeds will eat the troopers alive.

I love that all you folks who say that never go into the City, or try to avoid it, claim such knowledge about what goes on there. My wife and I frequent many areas of the city when we go out to dinner, to festivals, movies, and other various events and we have yet to have a problem. I'm not sure how much time Senators Brochin or McDonough spend there. We are downtown or at Belvedere Square or on the Avenue in Hampden just about every week. As recently as this past Saturday night, we had dinner in Harbor East, walked around the area after dinner and lived to tell about it. Didn't see any "gangs" of roving youths of any persuasion, just lots of folks of all ages having a good time and enjoying themselves.

Brochin and McDonough, and the citizens they represent would be well served if they would return their focus to the Districts and their problems. They clearly lack a true understanding of the reality of the situation. The idea that the State Police have the resources to add downtown Baltimore to their responsibilities is laughable. They are stretched to the limit as it is.

Baltimore City has real problems; no one can deny that. With that said, these politicians from the county have no standing to talk about them. Their only concern seems to be about the harbor. Well, I hate to break it to them, but the harbor is the least of any city resident's concerns. It would be great if the city could get some help from the state for public safety. But if state troopers were to be called in, they should be sent to Baltimore's neighborhoods, not to a fading tourist attraction which has never succeeded as the economic engine it was touted to be. Brochin and McDonough want their constituents to feel safe walking around the harbor, but in McDonough's case at least, that seems to be an impossibility. Apparently, the mere sight of a crowd of black folks is enough to leave him quivering in fear. I don't doubt that many of his constituents are the same. Obviously there have been some worrying incidents down at the harbor in the last few years, but I don't believe that he witnessed anything. I mean, did he call the cops? Did he take any immediate action? No, he waited a month, and then decided to slag off the whole city.

Finally, I find this idea--perpetuated here by Brochin--that the city is oh so dependent on county residents, completely laughable. It's the other way around. The truth of the matter is, half of Baltimore's problems stem from the fact that so many people work here, while living and paying taxes in the county. What we need, more than the state police, more that the piddling amounts that suburbanites spend here on Friday and Saturday nights out, is a commuter tax. Those funds could be used to lower the city's property tax rate, to fix the schools, and to address public safety, all of which would help to make Bmore more attractive to prospective residents.

So many people throwing around "your racist" if you speak up against an obvious and true fact. This is the politically correct fools that have no insight or defense to the honest facts here, so they play the race card. I want to make a point to all of those people calling "us" responsible, hard working, moral, and value driven tax paying citizens... racists.
1. I am a middle class, law abiding, honest, hard working, respectful, loving father and husband, volunteer in the community, and never even considered committing a crime; in fact, I have on many occasions been a Good Samaritan when I saw a crime or person in distress and I helped out. The majority of people whom I have helped in distress over the years have been black women and black children.
2. I hate white supremacy! I hate racism! I hate serious criminals! I dis-like white trash druggies and abusive people! I dis-like people who lie and deceive when it is obvious they know they are doing it! And also I dis-like mobs of black youth that run wild in the streets for many years now with one agenda; to cause fear, panic, and to break the law! Racism has nothing to do with telling the truth!

3. In 2008, a girl (22 yo) I knew was brutally beaten with a brick over her head in broad daylight in Charles Village. Why? Because 5 black teens were saying sexually explicit things to her on a bus stop and trying to get her to have sex with them in an alley. She ignored them. They started making very racist comments to her (as a witness also saw). Then they smashed her over the head with a brick repeatedly while yelling racial epitaphs at her. She was hospitalized for months. Today she has brain damage and those pieces of crap were never caught! It received a very brief headline on the news.
4. Of course, the famous robbery and beating of an innocent Canton man by a group of black teens (he was in a coma and later died). Then the racial beating of a young Asian man in Federal Hill by a group of black teens (which dozens of witness' watched and reported that is was purely racism). And the racial motivated beating of a white woman and her disabled child on the light rail while she taking her daughter to the JHU for treatment (the mob was a dozen black girls yelling racial names as they beat them both). Last year the 4th of July murder of a white out of state tourist father by a group of black thugs. The most current racially motivated beating of a young white man on St. Patrick's Day by the now infamous 200+ mob of black youth running wild causing fear, panic, terrorism, and crimes. These are to just name a select few of these black youth racial mob beating!!!

5. My father, a 67 year old lifelong small business owner in Baltimore City was beaten by a black teen while others stood outside and watched. There was no motivation but simply selected him because his was white old, thin and easy target for their humor. Luckly, my father was ok. But now he has to lock the doors to his business and now has a loaded handgun nearby.
This my PC friends is not a one time thing! This is a major growing issue that must be addressed! I am assuming because you all feel one incident here and there it is acceptable? If that is what you are saying then you think its ok to be a victim with no recourse for the thugs.
I will agree to this... If there were one or two mob type racial beatings in Baltimore City over the past 5 years... it would be very wrong and criminal, yet it would be considered a rare occurrence. BUT this is not the issue! There have been dozens of black youth mobs racially profiling and attacking innocent citizens. This has been an issue for years, but it has been covered up.
Next time one of you PC fools open their mouths think this first... are you defending the criminals? or are you asking the innocent victims how they felt? You can sit back and preach your PC nonfactual point of view, but when or if you or a family member becomes a victim, I guess we should just sit back and blame you for being in the wrong place.

We need a public debate! Come on Perry Hall and local Papers... lets do it!

this politician must not know the history of the state police effect in Baltimore city,check your history

people have short memories.the last time the state police assisted the bcpd,they were caught up in corruption on the block.im surprised, no one remembers the day the state police raided the block,got caught breaking the law with the strippers on the block.why would you want them to come back..The Sun reported Tuesday that three undercover officers are under investigation by state police internal affairsdetectives. According to interviews with workers on The Block and with state police, two officers solicited a prostitute in one of the bars and another spent the night in a hotel with a female bartender who was married to an owner of a bar targeted in the investigation. 
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people have short memories.the last time the state police assisted the bcpd,they were caught up in corruption on the block.im surprised, no one remembers the day the state police raided the block,got caught breaking the law with the strippers on the block.why would you want them to come back..The Sun reported Tuesday that three undercover officers are under investigation by state police internal affairsdetectives. According to interviews with workers on The Block and with state police, two officers solicited a prostitute in one of the bars and another spent the night in a hotel with a female bartender who was married to an owner of a bar targeted in the investigation. 
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the sate police were so bad that all the charges against the people on the block were dropped