Christopher Ingraham of the Washington Post captures the sorrows of Baltimore with this striking datum:

It is bad and we’ve known that for a long time. But if The Wire didn’t make the point emphatically enough, the recent riots certainly should have. But agreement on just how dire conditions are is about all we are likely to get, especially in this political year.  One where, incidentally, one of the candidates was actually mayor of that city not very long ago.  That will be a tough record to run on but never doubt the creativity of a major American politician.