There have already been more than 50 homicides in Baltimore this year, according to statistics kept by The Baltimore Sun, putting the city on pace to again surpass 300 killings, as it has the past five years in a row.
"This city was never like this, even when it was at its worst," activist Tyree Moorehead told Baltimore's Fox45 on Sunday. "That's scary because there's people whose family members haven't been shot yet that have a bullet with their name on it and don't even know it."
"You have a whole host of people who are feeling like they're afraid," Rev. Alvin Hathaway told the station. "This is red flag time. We've got to call all hands on deck and pull the city together."
"Right now people are going around like this is average, like nothing is different," Moorehead added. "We need to be the change and we need to believe."
In the meantime, federal law enforcement officers have increased their presence in the city in an effort to fight violent crime linked to drug activity, Fox News reports.
Baltimore's steep rise in violent crime began in 2015 in reaction to the death of Freddie Gray, a black man who died while in police custody. It has not abated.
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