I live in one of the "roughest cities in America"...

Alex at Marginal Revolution is apparently in Baltimore today - and refers to it as "one of the roughest cities in America". He's going along with bounty hunters, which would seem to suggest that there are some criminals in Baltimore.

I'm not sure about the "one of the roughest cities in America" thing. I mean, sure, we have 300 or so murders a year, but there are lots of places in Baltimore that are quite nice and quite safe. It's just that some of our bad neighborhoods are, well, really really bad. But I'm don't know if our bad neighborhoods are really any worse than any other city's bad neighborhood.