Baltimore residents say they are still upset despite crime statistics

Baltimore – Local leaders claim Baltimore crime has been reduced Amid the threat of President Trump’s threats to send federal resources to the city, Fox News digital numbers talk to several residents on the street who said they were unsafe and did not feel that crime was not being advertised.

Fox News Digital recently spoke with more than a dozen Baltimore residents about how crime affects their communities. although Locals are split Regarding whether President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy the National Guard will curb crime, residents say security issues are the most important.

Tasha, a young mother, talked to Fox News Digital while selling her baby’s stroller in Penn-North Shool in Baltimore, and she said she wasn’t safe.

“There’s a lot of things in Baltimore, and a lot of things happening,” she said. “That’s what needs to be paid attention to. You need to try to figure out why people are committing the crime they’re doing. How do you stop people from doing what they do? What can you all provide for people?”

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“No, I’m not.” Tasha told Fox News when asked if she feels safe now in Baltimore.

More than 20 people were hospitalized A large number of drug overdose events In July Pennsylvania. at the same time, Three of the seven homicides According to local reports, in Baltimore during August, in nearby Park Heights.

Tasha stopped on the street, selling and using drugs around the corner, said in North Pennsylvania: “Everything is running here, like it didn’t even happen a month ago.”

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and Gov Wes MooreD-Md. Against Trump’s threat, deploying the National Guard to Baltimore, a criminal attack that began in Washington, D.C. and has since floated in other cities, including Chicago.

Scott and Moore believe Baltimore has experienced the lowest homicide rate in 50 years and touted a “historical decrease in violent crime”, pointing to 91 homicides and 218 non-fatal shootings in 2025, which Scott said was a 29.5% and 21% drop.

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A busy street corner in North North Pennsylvania neighborhood in Baltimore (Fox News figures)

“We’re fine; we don’t need or want the National Guard in Baltimore,” Scott said.

Statistics prepared by the Nonprofit Institute are mere facts that Baltimore’s murder rate in 2024 remains 6.8 times the average of all metropolitan areas in the United States, and if the murder rate remains the same as the murder rate in 2024, about 1 in every 38 people in the city will be in the murder case.

Maryland leaders while rejecting federal forces Announced on Friday They sent Maryland law enforcement resources to Baltimore to support public safety. The news comes Friday on a high-profile stroll through the Baltimore Park Heights neighborhoods in Scott and Moore. Trump drags Moore It is recommended that the president participate in a similar stroll in the city.

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Abandoned buildings in North North Pennsylvania neighborhoods in Baltimore. (Fox News figures)

Tasha told Fox News Digital that Penn-North needs more entertainment centers and advocates for mandatory curfews to get children out of trouble, saying law enforcement needs to crack down on durability Crimes near her.

“I don’t care if this is a child who commits a crime. If you commit a crime, you’re old enough to take the time,” she said.

Joseph is a resident of Northern Pennsylvania Homeless woman sleeping He said on his front elbow that he felt the crime was on the rise.

“Every time they say the crime is going down, it doesn’t go down,” he said. “We have a lot of drug dealers, we’re running needles here. We let people sleep here, and that girl sleeps there. She gets up every day and I try to help her, feed her, give her clothes from the church, but everything is changing. She’s still doing the same thing, she might have AIDS. I don’t even know.”

Joseph said a lot of people around him were shot dead around drugs and dealers, “Every area you go is getting worse and worse.”

“They are killing our own people,” he said.

George, another local who spoke to Fox News Digital in the Bolton Hill community in Baltimore, agreed that crime “gets worse.”

“It’s just a street crime,” he said. “Moo Moo cows over there. Their windows have been broken three times, and it’s an ice cream shop. Just kids running here, and things are smashed here, and many of the windows here are broken.

Fox News Digital spoke with Baltimore residents about President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard to fight crime. (Fox News figures)

On weekends, the bars played music until early in the morning, but “the liquor boards didn’t seem to do anything, and they didn’t have enough police here to take care of it,” he said, adding that battles often broke out.

Anthony, a 30-year-old resident of Baltimore, now Live in western Marylandsaid his crime problem began when he discovered that “heroin addicts fired shots in the back of our home” and that the crime eventually drove him to the suburbs.

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“One day, I went home from get off work to the bank and I walked into the middle of the carjacking, it was a crazy chase, and on the street, this guy was killed for several blocks, and I was just thinking about myself, what am I doing here?” Anthony said.

While some residents do say that Baltimore leaders are effectively addressing crimes, including a woman named Anette Lang, who said Mayor Scott is blaming the Trump administration for “excellent work,” most people expressed concern.

Local radio host Daren Muhammed called Penn-North, a “Ground Zero” and rejected the narrative of the crime in Baltimore.

“They are making up for these numbers,” Muhammad claimed.

Fox News Digital commented with the offices of Mayor Scott and Governor Moore.