Canton Crime

A 22 year old woman was murdered 5 blocks from my house in Canton this week.  I didn't get sent out on the call as  I was doing a folo to the big water main break in Bethesda earlier that morning.  At my local bar people know what I do and were asking about the murder.  I told them that it seemed like the woman was not from the area and was driven into Canton, shot in a car, and left there.  This seemed to immediately calm their fears.  And I can understand why.  Having someone being walked up to, robbed, and shot is a very scary thing to live with when you walk the streets of your neighborhood.  But thinking that someone's life is less valuable because they were maybe involved in the drug trade when they were killed is horrible.  

Everyone lives with blinders on.  Everyone makes up these fake baltimore boundaries in order to justify even living in this city of 250+ murders a year. 

You don't go north of Patterson Park

You don't go west of MLK Blvd

You don't go down to Cherry Hill or Brooklyn

But crime happens everywhere!  Look at the two murders in Federal Hill earlier this year.  Similar circumstances to the one in Canton but imagine if you were walking to your car when you saw this.  All of a sudden you're an innocent person wrapped up in a terrible deed and with your only crime being in the wrong place at the wrong time.