Violent crime has been down across America lately. Baltimore had it's lower murder rate in like 50 years (and that actually was correlated with the mayor implementing some progressive community policing reforms), however nobody is exactly sure why. One theory is that because fentanyl has become the main narcotic being distributed in the US, and fent is so easy to distribute you don't really need a proper "organized crime" network to do it, it's resulted in less and less powerful street gangs who aren't fighting over turf as much, but that's just one theory.
