Baltimore residents say they don’t feel safe despite crime fall statistics

Baltimore – While local leaders claim that Baltimore crime is decreasing in the middle of President Trump’s threat to send federal resources to the city, Fox News Digital spoke to several street residents who said they are not feeling safe and that crime does not think is managed as well as announced.

Fox News Digital recently spoke to more than a dozen Baltimore residents on the impact of crime on their community. While the inhabitants were divided on the question of whether President Donald Trump’s plan to deploy national guard troops would limit crime, residents said the security problems were in the lead.

Tasha, a young mother who spoke to Fox News Digital while pushing her baby’s stroller in the Baltimore district of Penn-North, said that she did not feel safe.

“There are so many things and so much in Baltimore,” she said. “This is what needs attention. You have to try to understand why people commit and make the crimes they do. How can you all prevent people from doing things they do? What can you all give people?”

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Fox News Digital spoke to Baltimore residents about the current crime situation. (Fox News Digital)

“No, I don’t do it,” Tasha told Fox News Digital when asked if she feels safe in Baltimore at the moment.

More than two dozen people have been hospitalized in a Mass medication overdose event in Penn-North in July. In the meantime, Three of the seven homicides In Baltimore, in August, were in the nearby park, according to local reports.

Between people who sell and consume drugs at the corner while a police car was parked just down the street, Tasha said that in Penn-North, “everything is back here as if it had not even happened a month ago.”

The mayor of Baltimore Brandon Scott and the governor. Wes MooreD-MD., Are united against Trump’s threat to deploy the National Guard to Baltimore in the repression of the president’s national crime, which began in Washington, DC, and has since been launched in other cities, including Chicago.

Scott and Moore argue that Baltimore knows its lowest homicide rate in 50 years and has praised “historic discounts of violent crimes”, highlighting 91 homicides and 218 non -deadly shots in 2025, which, according to Scott, are 29.5% and 21% of drops.

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A lively street corner in the Baltimore district in Penn-North (Fox News Digital)

“We are good; we do not need or the national guard here in Baltimore,” Said Scott.

The statistics compiled by the non -profit research institute show that the Baltimore murder rate in 2024 is still 6.8 times the average for all the metropolitan areas of the country and that if the murder rate remains the same as in 2024, around 1 in 38 people in the city will have their short life by murder in 2024 in their lives.

While rejecting federal troops, Maryland leaders Announced Friday Let them send resources to apply the Maryland law in Baltimore to support public security. The announcement was made in the heels of the Scott and Moore promenade in the Baltimore Park Heights district on Friday. Trump dragged Moore for suggesting that the president participates in a similar walk across the city.

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Buildings abandoned in the Baltimore district of Penn-North. (Fox News Digital)

Tasha, who told Fox News Digital that Penn-North needed more leisure centers and pleaded for a compulsory curfew to avoid children, said the police must repress persistent crimes in his neighborhood.

“I don’t care that it is a child who commits the crime. If you do the crime, you are old enough to make time,” she said, adding that minor criminals “are so easy” in terms of punishment.

Joseph, a Penn-North resident who spoke to Fox News Digital while a homelessness was sleeping on his bottom, said he had the impression that crime increased.

“Whenever they say that the crime goes low, it’s not going low,” he said. “We have had a lot of drug traffickers, needles here. We have people sleeping here, the girl sleeping there. Each day she gets up, I try to help her, feed her, give her church clothes, but everything changes. She always does the same thing, and she could have an AIDS. I don’t even know.”

Joseph said that many people in his neighborhood have been shot on the drugs and with the dealerships and “each area where you will get worse and worsen”.

“They kill our own people,” he said.

George, another premises that spoke to Fox News Digital in the Bolton Hill district of Baltimore, agreed that “worsened” crime.

“It’s just a street crime,” he said. “Moo Moo Vows there. They had their broken windows three times, and it is an ice cream store. Just by the children who run here, just break things, and a number of windows here have been broken.

Fox News Digital spoke to Baltimore residents of President Donald Trump’s plan to send the National Guard to fight crime. (Fox News Digital)

He said the weekend, the bars explode music until the early hours of the morning, but “the alcohol board simply does not seem to do anything, and they do not have enough police here to deal with them”, adding that the fights often burst “especially after the Steelers games”.

Anthony, a 30 -year -old Baltimore resident who now lives in western Maryland, said his crime problem started when he found that “drug addicts shoot behind our house” and this crime finally led him in the suburbs.

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“One day, I returned from work and I went to the bank, then I entered in the middle of a car car, and it was a crazy pursuit in the streets, and this person was killed with several houses in the south of there, and I just said to myself, what am I doing here?” Said Anthony.

While some residents said that Baltimore management effectively tackled crime, including a woman named Anette Lang, who said mayor Scott was doing a “excellent job” while blaming the Trump administration, the majority expressed his concern.

Daren Muhammed, a local radio host who called Penn-North “Ground Zero”, rejected the story that the crime is in Baltimore.

“They merge the figures,” said Muhammed.

Fox News Digital contacted the offices of Mayor Scott and Governor Moore to comment.