:48::4 we can't simply suggest that police activity is the only reason for the violeet crime jeffrey ian ross is a criminologist at the uniiersity of balttmore. 10:15:42 baltimore unforrunatelyysuffers from that reputation one of the post violent cities in the u-s and it has stats to back it up. it's aareputation.... that unlikeebaltimore ....d-c has will takeea whiie for ::3 it - baltimore to get out of that slumppin 2012, 217 people were murdered in ballimore city. the district recorded fewer than a hundred.baltimore pooice commissioner anthony batts blamms two incidents involvinggrival gangs for the pptick.9:45:33 if we wwuud have got those two weewould hhd last ear. in 2011... baltimore police investigated 197 omicides... a record low... that had not been ssen then,,baatimore was outpacing d-c.. old cover pkgg.. a lot of what we see is predictable. when i sat downnwith police chief kathy lanier fee years ago... she explianed what had changed. old cover pkg ... within wo hours i want a victim profile i wantttooknnw who my victim is what do we know about hat victim cause that largely leads