As long as thugs roam streets, just call Baltimore 'Fear City'

Gregory Kane of the Baltimore Sun plainly tells readers the realities of Baltimore streets. When will the city's voters wake-up and stop electing the Democratic machine that contributes to the city's decay.

Let's drop the pretense, shall we? And let's abandon all those cute nicknames and quaint slogans - "The City That Reads," "Believe" - our city's chief executives come up with to describe Baltimore as something other than what it is: a place where we have some of the most vicious, homicidal thugs walking our streets.

It is a town where the official reaction to the killing of my cousin and two others is a promise to thoroughly investigate all halfway houses to be sure they're properly licensed. I would like to remind our august leaders that a nonexistent license didn't kill my cousin.

A murdering thug did.

During this witch hunt for dreaded runaway, deadly, unlicensed halfway houses, it would be nice if Baltimore's elected officials - all of whom belong to the party whose unofficial mantra is "there are more black men in prison than in college" - committed themselves to removing murdering thugs from our streets for as long as the law allows.