Some facts about Baltimore

Bill Quigley, Counterpunch -

Blacks in Baltimore are more than 5.6 times more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana than whites even though marijuana use among the races is similar.  In fact, Baltimore county has the fifth highest arrest rate for marijuana possessions in the USA.

African Americans in Baltimore are eight times more likely to die from complications of HIV/AIDS than whites and twice as likely to die from diabetes related causes as whites.

African American babies in Baltimore are nine times more likely to die before age one than white infants in the city.

There is a twenty year difference in life expectancy between those who live in the most affluent neighborhood in Baltimore versus those who live six miles away in the most impoverished.

148,000 people, or 23.8 percent of the people in Baltimore, live below the official poverty level.

56.4 percent of Baltimore students graduate from high school.  The national rate is about 80 percent.