The Corridor Of Pain: Baltimore, Wilmington, Philadelphia
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I thought East Coast blacks were getting money tho 
Bernie Madoff
Banned
Where's Sharpton, where's Farrakhan? Jesse Jackson?
Oh I see, no money to make off this so who cares...
Oh I see, no money to make off this so who cares...
theworldismine13
God Emperor of SOHH
all i see is lack of capitalism
Vandelay
Life is absurd. Lean into it.
Hey, don't lump my city, Philly, in with those other two nikkas...
Wilmington Most Dangerous Small City In Country
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/03/27/report-wilmington-dangerous-small-city-country/
Murder Town USA (aka Wilmington, Delaware)
BY ABIGAIL JONES / DECEMBER 9, 2014 6:35 AM EST
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/19/wilmington-delaware-murder-crime-290232.html
The first thing that happens when I arrive at the Wilmington, Delaware, train station is that the newsstand cashier hands me counterfeit money as change when I buy an umbrella. Next, I walk outside and look for Sergeant Andrea Janvier. She’s just over five feet tall, weighs about 100 pounds and has 18 years on the force, including 13 undercover in the drug unit. This fall she became Wilmington’s public information officer, which means it’s now her job to be nice to journalists like me. When I get into her cherry-red police car and tell her the location for an interview I have later that day, she lowers her Ray-Ban aviators, looks me in the eye and says, “I wouldn’t go to that block without a gun.”
During my four days in Wilmington last month, there were four shootings, allinvolving male victims between 17 and 19. None occurred while I was driving around with Janvier, 41, or when I did a ride-along with two cops. But as Janvier texted me the morning after I went home, “I just left a homicide scene, wouldn’t it figure!” A few hours later, another text: “And a shooting just came in on Hilltop. It’s usually always busy, it was just slow when you were here.”
most dangerous small cities in America. This year, there have been 27 homicides in Wilmington, tying its record 27 murders in 2010, and 135 people have been shot. Twenty-two of them died. With a population of just over 71,000, Wilmington had a violent-crime rate of 1,625 per 100,000 people last year, according to the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report (that crime rate measures murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault). The national average was 368 per 100,000 people. Wilmington ranks third for violence among 450 cities of comparable size, behind the Michigan towns of Saginaw and Flint, according to a Wilmington News Journal report. For a city mired in violence, the most stunning fact of all may be that Wilmington just got its first homicide unit.
When you ask people in Wilmington about the root causes of the city’s crime epidemic, their answers read like the devil’s Christmas list: poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunities, drug and alcohol abuse, gun violence, high dropout rates, teenage pregnancy, stressed families and more. In the U.S.,homicide is the leading cause of death for black men between 15 and 34. In Wilmington, where 58 percent of residents are African-American, crime and violence disproportionately affect poor black families, especially boys and young men. Exacerbating tensions between residents and law enforcement is the fact that the police department is 70 percent white and 21 percent black.
That disparity is reminiscent of Ferguson, Missouri, which was thrust into the national spotlight this summer when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen. Protests erupted across the city as police poured into the streets dressed in camouflage and armed with tanks, tear gas and military-grade weapons.
With a population of 21,000, Ferguson is much smaller than Wilmington, though it, too, has a predominantly black community (67 percent) and an almost entirely white police force (4 out of 53 commissioned police officers are black, according to The New York Times). As events unfolded in Ferguson,many news organizations called the city a “war zone.” In Wilmington, where there is neither tear gas nor armored vehicles rolling down the streets, it’s been that way for years, with nary a mention in the national press.
“This isn’t Camden, New Jersey,” says Cris Barrish, a News Journalinvestigative reporter who has chronicled Wilmington’s escalating crime for more than two decades. “It still has a solid corporate and residential core, with ritzy and trendy areas…. The shootings have devastated parts of the city but are generally confined to four or five poor neighborhoods that circle downtown, and they’ve turned into war zones.”
News Journal), blames the city’s school system. “We have a 60 percent dropout rate. It should have never got to that point—and the state has been running the school districts here since 1975.” Geography is another issue. Halfway between Philadelphia and Baltimore, Wilmington has become a way station for drug traffickers. When I-95 was built in the 1960s, it bisected established neighborhoods, pushing out “roughly 4,000 to 5,000 good, strong, working families,” says City Council President Theopalis Gregory Sr. The highway made it easy for anyone looking to buy drugs to get off at the nearest exit. Today, some of Wilmington’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are in I-95’s shadow, including Hilltop and Browntown.
This fall, the Department of Justice named Wilmington as one of six cities—along with Chicago; Detroit; Oakland and Richmond, California; and Camden, New Jersey—selected for the Violence Reduction Network. The program will support and train communities on how to develop long-term solutions for addressing violence and crime. The situation in Wilmington is so dire that, earlier this year, the state brought in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the cycle of lethal violence and trauma in the city. The CDC is supposed to present its findings by the end of the year.
In the meantime, Wilmington’s homicide unit—five detectives, one supervisor, one retired detective (paid by a grant) handling cold cases and two agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—started combing through the year’s unsolved murders. In mid-November, one month after assuming their new roles, they solved their first case, bringing this year’s tally for cleared murder cases up to four.
Brother Lamotte X of the Wilmington Peace Keepers, which works to reduce crime and violence in the city, says he started campaigning for a homicide unit six years ago. “Mathematics don’t lie,” he says. “If I were a criminal and I wanted to kill somebody and I knew Wilmington didn’t have a homicide unit, this would be one of the places I would come to do it.”
‘They all have guns’
“You might wanna buckle up,” Corporal Cannon tells me. I’m sitting in the back seat of a black SWAT team Tahoe. Cannon, who’s 32, and Corporal Geiser, 34, police the northeast sector of Wilmington, and they’re letting me join them for a Saturday night ride-along. (Both requested only their last names be used.) Moments before, our car suddenly smelled as if it had been hot-boxed. The Cadillac in front of us is clearly the source of the marijuana smoke, Cannon says, and we could be seconds away from a car chase.
Geiser, who’s driving, flashes the police lights, and the car pulls over. Inside are two black men in their mid- to late 20s. Geiser and Cannon handcuff and search them, then tell them to sit on the ground while they look up their information. The passenger, who’s wearing a white T-shirt and Nike warm-ups, limps to the sidewalk. Cannon asks him what happened. Last year, the man says, he was shot seven times. “Who shot you?” Cannon says. The young man stares at the ground and shrugs his shoulders. “Were you locked up?” Another shrug.
I watch all of this from inside the Tahoe, which smells so much like marijuana that I wonder if I’m getting a contact high. Across the street, a few people gather on the corner to watch Geiser search the car. He finds a blunt and a bottle of prescription Tylenol with codeine. Despite this, he and Cannon let both men go. “They were honest. For us, honesty goes a long way,” Geiser says.
Geiser has been on the job for eight years, Cannon for five. As a two-man car, they’re often sent to “hot calls.” I ask what that means. “A domestic violence complaint,” says Cannon. “A shooting. Shots fired. Robberies.”
They say they’ve seen an increase in broad daylight shootings over the past year and a half, and the incidents can erupt over just about anything. “A Facebook beef,” says Geiser. “Or a beef from school. A family beef. ‘You didn’t give me my drug money you owed me.’ Or, ‘Hey, you looked at me the wrong way.’”
http://www.phillymag.com/news/2014/03/27/report-wilmington-dangerous-small-city-country/
Murder Town USA (aka Wilmington, Delaware)
BY ABIGAIL JONES / DECEMBER 9, 2014 6:35 AM EST
http://www.newsweek.com/2014/12/19/wilmington-delaware-murder-crime-290232.html
The first thing that happens when I arrive at the Wilmington, Delaware, train station is that the newsstand cashier hands me counterfeit money as change when I buy an umbrella. Next, I walk outside and look for Sergeant Andrea Janvier. She’s just over five feet tall, weighs about 100 pounds and has 18 years on the force, including 13 undercover in the drug unit. This fall she became Wilmington’s public information officer, which means it’s now her job to be nice to journalists like me. When I get into her cherry-red police car and tell her the location for an interview I have later that day, she lowers her Ray-Ban aviators, looks me in the eye and says, “I wouldn’t go to that block without a gun.”
During my four days in Wilmington last month, there were four shootings, allinvolving male victims between 17 and 19. None occurred while I was driving around with Janvier, 41, or when I did a ride-along with two cops. But as Janvier texted me the morning after I went home, “I just left a homicide scene, wouldn’t it figure!” A few hours later, another text: “And a shooting just came in on Hilltop. It’s usually always busy, it was just slow when you were here.”
most dangerous small cities in America. This year, there have been 27 homicides in Wilmington, tying its record 27 murders in 2010, and 135 people have been shot. Twenty-two of them died. With a population of just over 71,000, Wilmington had a violent-crime rate of 1,625 per 100,000 people last year, according to the FBI’s 2013 Uniform Crime Report (that crime rate measures murder and nonnegligent manslaughter, rape, robbery and aggravated assault). The national average was 368 per 100,000 people. Wilmington ranks third for violence among 450 cities of comparable size, behind the Michigan towns of Saginaw and Flint, according to a Wilmington News Journal report. For a city mired in violence, the most stunning fact of all may be that Wilmington just got its first homicide unit.
When you ask people in Wilmington about the root causes of the city’s crime epidemic, their answers read like the devil’s Christmas list: poverty, racism, lack of economic opportunities, drug and alcohol abuse, gun violence, high dropout rates, teenage pregnancy, stressed families and more. In the U.S.,homicide is the leading cause of death for black men between 15 and 34. In Wilmington, where 58 percent of residents are African-American, crime and violence disproportionately affect poor black families, especially boys and young men. Exacerbating tensions between residents and law enforcement is the fact that the police department is 70 percent white and 21 percent black.
That disparity is reminiscent of Ferguson, Missouri, which was thrust into the national spotlight this summer when a white police officer shot and killed an unarmed black teen. Protests erupted across the city as police poured into the streets dressed in camouflage and armed with tanks, tear gas and military-grade weapons.
With a population of 21,000, Ferguson is much smaller than Wilmington, though it, too, has a predominantly black community (67 percent) and an almost entirely white police force (4 out of 53 commissioned police officers are black, according to The New York Times). As events unfolded in Ferguson,many news organizations called the city a “war zone.” In Wilmington, where there is neither tear gas nor armored vehicles rolling down the streets, it’s been that way for years, with nary a mention in the national press.
“This isn’t Camden, New Jersey,” says Cris Barrish, a News Journalinvestigative reporter who has chronicled Wilmington’s escalating crime for more than two decades. “It still has a solid corporate and residential core, with ritzy and trendy areas…. The shootings have devastated parts of the city but are generally confined to four or five poor neighborhoods that circle downtown, and they’ve turned into war zones.”
News Journal), blames the city’s school system. “We have a 60 percent dropout rate. It should have never got to that point—and the state has been running the school districts here since 1975.” Geography is another issue. Halfway between Philadelphia and Baltimore, Wilmington has become a way station for drug traffickers. When I-95 was built in the 1960s, it bisected established neighborhoods, pushing out “roughly 4,000 to 5,000 good, strong, working families,” says City Council President Theopalis Gregory Sr. The highway made it easy for anyone looking to buy drugs to get off at the nearest exit. Today, some of Wilmington’s most crime-ridden neighborhoods are in I-95’s shadow, including Hilltop and Browntown.
This fall, the Department of Justice named Wilmington as one of six cities—along with Chicago; Detroit; Oakland and Richmond, California; and Camden, New Jersey—selected for the Violence Reduction Network. The program will support and train communities on how to develop long-term solutions for addressing violence and crime. The situation in Wilmington is so dire that, earlier this year, the state brought in the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to investigate the cycle of lethal violence and trauma in the city. The CDC is supposed to present its findings by the end of the year.
In the meantime, Wilmington’s homicide unit—five detectives, one supervisor, one retired detective (paid by a grant) handling cold cases and two agents from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives—started combing through the year’s unsolved murders. In mid-November, one month after assuming their new roles, they solved their first case, bringing this year’s tally for cleared murder cases up to four.
Brother Lamotte X of the Wilmington Peace Keepers, which works to reduce crime and violence in the city, says he started campaigning for a homicide unit six years ago. “Mathematics don’t lie,” he says. “If I were a criminal and I wanted to kill somebody and I knew Wilmington didn’t have a homicide unit, this would be one of the places I would come to do it.”
‘They all have guns’
“You might wanna buckle up,” Corporal Cannon tells me. I’m sitting in the back seat of a black SWAT team Tahoe. Cannon, who’s 32, and Corporal Geiser, 34, police the northeast sector of Wilmington, and they’re letting me join them for a Saturday night ride-along. (Both requested only their last names be used.) Moments before, our car suddenly smelled as if it had been hot-boxed. The Cadillac in front of us is clearly the source of the marijuana smoke, Cannon says, and we could be seconds away from a car chase.
Geiser, who’s driving, flashes the police lights, and the car pulls over. Inside are two black men in their mid- to late 20s. Geiser and Cannon handcuff and search them, then tell them to sit on the ground while they look up their information. The passenger, who’s wearing a white T-shirt and Nike warm-ups, limps to the sidewalk. Cannon asks him what happened. Last year, the man says, he was shot seven times. “Who shot you?” Cannon says. The young man stares at the ground and shrugs his shoulders. “Were you locked up?” Another shrug.
I watch all of this from inside the Tahoe, which smells so much like marijuana that I wonder if I’m getting a contact high. Across the street, a few people gather on the corner to watch Geiser search the car. He finds a blunt and a bottle of prescription Tylenol with codeine. Despite this, he and Cannon let both men go. “They were honest. For us, honesty goes a long way,” Geiser says.
Geiser has been on the job for eight years, Cannon for five. As a two-man car, they’re often sent to “hot calls.” I ask what that means. “A domestic violence complaint,” says Cannon. “A shooting. Shots fired. Robberies.”
They say they’ve seen an increase in broad daylight shootings over the past year and a half, and the incidents can erupt over just about anything. “A Facebook beef,” says Geiser. “Or a beef from school. A family beef. ‘You didn’t give me my drug money you owed me.’ Or, ‘Hey, you looked at me the wrong way.’”
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fuq that zambodian nikka manI got a dap from @Liu Kang What about that 5 Star thread tho....
I made it brehs.... @Kritic @thekingsmen @Digga38
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shyt looks like fallujah 
I got a dap from @Liu Kang What about that 5 Star thread tho....
I made it brehs.... @Kritic @thekingsmen @Digga38
Don't be fooled. @Liu Kang ass gives you dap cause it comes from WSHH a website that shows black ignorance and foolishness and not from a site that's about critical thinking and dialogue.
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Delaware. ....Delaware? ???? I had no clue,..... dont let me find out Vermont and Maine getting it in too
RatherUnique
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27 murders for 71000... in Delaware. 
Those pics look IIke they still in the early 90s even the cars 
Those pics look IIke they still in the early 90s even the cars 
lot of dinero in s. florida these days ..... potus is getting some for his party while we type...
Traffic alert: President Obama lands in Miami Wednesday afternoon for Democratic fund-raisers
dude is right about the corruption and choking taxes in the corridor. china is winning with their mercantile model.
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Bob Marley with his mom in wilmington
Reggae legend drove forklift for Chrysler, was lab assistant at DuPont
http://archive.delawareonline.com/a.../807220374/Marley-worked-Night-Shift-Delaware
lion, rita, and ma booker
Friends of Bob Marley reminisce about his life in Delaware
http://repeatingislands.com/2009/07/24/friends-of-bob-marley-reminisce-about-his-life-in-delaware/
Traffic alert: President Obama lands in Miami Wednesday afternoon for Democratic fund-raisers
dude is right about the corruption and choking taxes in the corridor. china is winning with their mercantile model.
__________________
Bob Marley with his mom in wilmington
Reggae legend drove forklift for Chrysler, was lab assistant at DuPont
http://archive.delawareonline.com/a.../807220374/Marley-worked-Night-Shift-Delaware
lion, rita, and ma booker
Friends of Bob Marley reminisce about his life in Delaware
http://repeatingislands.com/2009/07/24/friends-of-bob-marley-reminisce-about-his-life-in-delaware/