And that’s why, ultimately, this city is losing. Not because of crime, or ineffective schools that managed to muster just a three-percent advanced-placement pass rate for students in a state that averaged 25 percent.
Not just because the city can’t raise enough revenue to keep the same bloated payrolls that allowed multiple Department of Public Works employees to not do their jobs for weeks at a time — and at least one to be kept on the public payroll while serving time in jail for molesting a teenage girl — with not a single superior taking notice.
The reason the city failed to keep and attract residents is that the policies that have informed the past are constructed for the benefit of people who don’t live here. For tourists, cops, and small handfuls of politicians and business insiders who trade tax breaks for political donations.
When this process is over, the population of Baltimore will consist of the powerless poor and the grasping government. Read the Whole Thing, as they say.
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