ABSTRACT
This chapter provides details about stories related to crime, incivilities, and neighborhood quality that received media attention in Baltimore around the time of the 1994–1995 resident and leader interviews. Baltimore has always been a city where issues of color played major roles in settlement patterns; business; politics; and, more recently crime. The chapter describes just a few of the structural changes taking place in Baltimore in the 1970s and 1980s. It examines citywide changes in fear and incivilities using our 1982 and 1994 surveys as well as physical changes on the 1994 study blocks between 1981 and 1994. The chapter provides the reader with a better sense of concerns about crime and incivilities at the time of the study and a view of recent structural and crime changes. It reviews some of the coverage on crime and disorder at the time Schmoke was seeking reelection.
