Cleveland residents face a sobering reality that many suburbanites will never experience: dramatically higher crime rates that fundamentally alter how they live their daily lives.
A cleveland.com analysis comparing crime rates across Northeast Ohio’s 123 cities paints a stark picture of inequality that demands our attention. In Tuesday’s episode of Today in Ohio, the podcast team dove into the troubling numbers with the kind of straight talk that often gets lost in political rhetoric about crime.
“It is clear, though, that Cleveland residents endure a higher rate of crime than almost everybody in a big way,” saidChris Quinn. “Have we reached a point in society where we just say, well, it’s a city, you have high crime, or is there a path to fix it?”…