Another example of anti-urban "empathy"

This is a letter to the editor in today's Baltimore Sun and is an example of what I think of as anti-urban thinking on the part of suburbanites. I am all for criticism without solutions (although these days I am full of solutions)... but my first reaction to this was "how is this helping?"

Finding the footage of our own mugging
I think it's a fine idea to use surveillance cameras on Baltimore's mean streets ("Jessamy criticized over cameras," Aug. 16). Just think, now you could get mugged and then be able to get to see a picture of your mugging.

Ruth Fried, Owings Mills
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Normally, I say that the farther one lives from the center city, the greater and stronger are their anti-urban attitudes. But Owings Mills isn't that far from Baltimore...

Index Keywords: urban-revitalization; civic-engagement