“Ferguson Effect” Triggers Nationwide “Crime Wave”  

Two weeks ago, we took a look at Baltimore in the aftermath of violent protests that left the city in ashes late last month.

 The astonishing statistic: from April 27 to May 14, there were 23 homicides in the city, for an average of 1.3 each day.

We summed up the situation as follows: “But out of sight, out of mind for the rest of the country and we imagine that just as high crime rates and a generalized sense of despair were ignored before the riots, so too will they be ignored now that the media spectacle has died down … at least until the next “purge.”

In fact, May was the city’s bloodiest month since 1999 with more than 30 people shot on Memorial Day weekend alone.

Here, courtesy of The Baltimore Sun, is a recap of those who were murdered in Baltimore from May 17 through May 25 alone:

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