Trump on Truth Social threatened to send the military into Baltimore to “quickly clean up” crime, the latest in a line of threats to replicate the deployment of National Guard troops to Washington. The soaring number of young people who have engaged in carjacking is indeed one of the key factors that has driven the surge in the Washington area and beyond, according to interviews with more than half a dozen police officials, criminologists and youth advocates. Far removed from the beat-up mini-fridges and crooked posters of the past, the dramatic transformations are unnecessary, some say, and reflect the widening line between the haves and have-nots in the United States.
Author: Nick Duffy, Amina Kilpatrick, Jeremy Mikula
Published at: 2025-08-24 22:00:42
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