Five years after The Wire left screens, the TV set remains… how the real Baltimore is still poverty-plagued city of series
By Katie Davies (The Daily Mail, 4/10/2013)
They are images which wouldn’t be out of place in the opening sequences of the ubiquitous Baltimore crime show The Wire.
Vacant rows of houses; children hanging around on street corners with nowhere to go and homeless people telling stories of disease and crime.
But rather than a fictionalized view of the Maryland city, these pictures reveal real-life scenes from an urban area hit hard by the recession and still stumbling dangerously into poverty.
Homeless: There are approximately 4,000 homeless people in Baltimore. Angelo, who lives in a vacant property, points out a pin he had to have placed in his jaw after being attacked on the streets.
The number of Americans living in poverty today hasn’t been seen since Lyndon Johnson was in the White House.
And Baltimore is among the urban areas said to be suffering the most.
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The British are fascinated with THE WIRE and Baltimore in general. From what I can see, the author spent zero time reporting on our efforts to correct out city.