Things are getting real bad

I live in the state of Maryland, about 130 miles west of Baltimore. This is a very rual area,my town is called Frostburg, the population is about 6000. There is a universty here and when it is session the population doubles. The county I live in has about 70,000 people. So as you can see we live in a very small populated area.
This year alone we have had 3 murder-suicides, and several murders, plus many drug related crimes. This type of trend, has been increasing at an alarming rate the last several years. These kind of things we only read about or saw on the evening news, from places like Baltimore and Washington D.C.
Drug crimes have exploded in this area, and they re blaming it on perscription meds and herion,and crack cocaine. Overdoses are on the rise, they have opened 2 methadone clinics in the area in the last 3 years. I know these type of things aren't shocking to some, but when you are from a small area like this it is to it's residents.
What I am wondering are there any other MH,members that live in a small area like this seeing the same kind of things going on??  thanks...brian

[April2]

Yeah, I'm seeing it. I don't live in a real big city and we're starting to see more big city crime. It makes me sad and angry at the same time when I see all the "tagging" going on on sides of buildings, signs, etc. That suggests more gang activity to me.
What makes them think it's ok to destroy property that doesn't belong to them? Some of this stuff is brick and you can't get graffiti off of brick.
We've also seen more home invasions. Now that is scary because the home owners are home when it happens. That's why I got dogs!

[gokuangel]

I think even I have noticed it! the town i live in has 100k people though and the next town over the same size! BUT I remember first moving here 8yrs ago and i didnt hear of that many murders or drivebys or things of that nature! And now im reading it more! 2yrs ago a man went crazy on our side of town and gunned down 3 police men!! This year a couple of guys gunned down another couple of guys!! And the robberies here seem to be getting worse!! My BIL & SIL live on not the best side of town their neighbors home got broken into and now they got an alarm system put in!!  some1 broke a 2500$ coke machine just to take out a 100$ in quarters!! One of furniture stores some1 went and jacked 50 mattresses from them how or why i havent a clue!!

[dominosarah]

I come from a town of about 10,000......we have had 2 drug overdose deaths and 1 15 yr old who just hung himself in the last month or so, another man just shot himself and died a couple weeks ago.  Crimes are going up big time here.  Houses are being broken into, people are getting beat up, sexual abuse is rampant here right now.  Meth is on the rise again.....scary stuff                 sara

[April2]

We have a lot of suicides here too.