BALTIMOREBaltimore, Maryland Top 10 ListBaltimore is a deadly and unsafe place... city figureheads won't tell you this... we just did!1) Baltimore City is the VD Capital of the U.S. (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report) 1) Baltimore is the Heroin Capital of the country (Baltimore SUN, 2001) 1) Maryland is the Robbery Capital of the nation (www.morganquitno.com) 1) Baltimore ranks #1 in Loss of it's City Population Base (US Census, 2001) 1) Baltimore is rated #1 in the U.S. for reported cases of Early Latent Syphilis (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report)2) Baltimore City ranks #2 in the country for Robbery (www.morganquitno.com) 2) Baltimore City is rated #2 in the U.S. for reported cases of Congenital Syphilis (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report) 2) Baltimore is the 2nd Best Place in the nation for lesbians to live (Baltimore SUN, 2001)3) Baltimore is the 3rd Most Kid Unfriendly City in the country (www.kidfriendlycities.org) 3) Baltimore City is rated #3 in the country for reported cases of Syphilis (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report) 3) Baltimore ranks #3 in the U.S. for reported cases of Gonorrhea (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report)4) Baltimore is the 4th Most Dangerous City in the U.S. (www.morganquitno.com) 4 Maryland is the 4th Most Murderous State in the nation (www.morganquitno.com) 4) Baltimore City ranks #4 in the country for Aggravated Assault (www.morganquitno.com) 4) Baltimore City is rated #4 in the country for reported cases of Chlamydia (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report) 4) Maryland has the 4th Worst AIDS rate in the U.S. (www.morganquitno.com)5) Five human corpses were found floating dead in Baltimore's Inner Harbor (Baltimore SUN, 2001)6) Baltimore is the 6th Most Murderous City in the U.S. (www.morganquitno.com) 6) Maryland is the 6th Most Dangerous State in the country (www.morganquitno.com) 6) Maryland ranks 6th Worst in the nation for the birth of low birthweight babies (www.morganquitno.com) 6) Six of every 100 Baltimore City cops currently faces or have faced criminal charges (WBAL-TV, 2000)7) Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan Area ranks #7 in Most Ozone Air Polluted Cities in the U.S. (www.lungsusa.com)8) Baltimore City ranks #8 in the nation for reported cases of AIDS (CDC 2000 HIV/AIDS Surveillance Report) 8) Maryland is rated #8 in the U.S. for reported cases of Congenital Syphilis (CDC 2000 STD Surveillance Report) 8) Maryland's Infant Mortality Rate is the 8th Worst in the country (www.morganquitno.com) 8) One of every eight Baltimore residents is a drug addict (Baltimore SUN, 2001)9) Maryland ranks #9 in the U.S. for Aggravated Assault (www.morganquitno.com) 9) Maryland ranks #9 in the country for Motor Vehicle Theft (www.morganquitno.com) 9) Nine of every ten drug addicts in Baltimore is infected with Hepatitis C (Baltimore SUN, 2001)10) Baltimore ranks #10 in Personal Crime Risk (http://money.cnn.com) 10) Maryland has the 10th Worst STDs rate in the U.S. (www.morganquitno.com) 10) Coppin State College & Sojourner-Douglass College (Baltimore, MD) rate a 10 (on a scale from 1-10) because their Campus Crime Risk is 10x the national average (www.APBnews.com) 10) Baltimore recorded 10 consecutive years of 300+ murders (thru the 1990s)Mayor Martin O'Malley will tell you rightfully that Baltimore City ranks #1 for Arts & Culture but he's been busy as a bee trying to bury the rest of the unsettling facts found on this Top 10 List