Johnny Mitchell
speaker
10,245 appearances
19 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Johnny Mitchell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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All right, let's get into it.
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The first thing that strikes you about Baltimore, besides its colonial beauty, is just how friendly everyone is.
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From the lady helping you get a cab at the airport to the corner boy in South Baltimore selling you a bag of fentanyl, there's a spirit of charm and hospitality here that transcends class and racial lines.
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So then, how does a city with such brotherly love manage to have one of the highest murder rates per capita of any metropolis in America?
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That's one of those complex sociological questions with many different possible explanations.
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Drugs and drug dealing are certainly a factor.
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One of the more accurate portrayals in the wire is how petty beefs that happen on the street level between neighborhood crews turn quickly into violent reprisals.
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So if a crew from the neighborhood wants to set up shop, but round here?
Yeah.
If it but if it's not their block, is it gonna be some beef?
Up until very recently, this was a 300 murder a year town, going back a century.
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just drugs.
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There's drug dealing in every city.
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There's a culture of murder unique to Baltimore, which contributes to much of the violence.
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Death in all its forms is very common here.
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There's also a Wild West mentality.
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What do you expect in a city full of boarded up neighborhoods that don't even have grocery stores, much less law and order?
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You'd think you could get away with murder too.
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Take a walk through the slums of the south side or the west side, and you might think you were in a battle-torn city in the Middle East.
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Nothing but dope fiends, dope dealers, and rubble.
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