According to this site, Baltimore is the 6th most dangerous city overall in the US (we're not top five? WTF?). We're second only to Detroit in cities of more than 500,000 people, and Baltimore-Towson ranks 20th overall in the most dangerous metropolitan areas category.
That explains why the KFC and the Royal Farm in my 'hood keep getting held up at gunpoint.
Funny, Frommer's doesn't mention these rankings...
