Dear Baltimore, You Have a Mess on Your Hands.

It's just the 400 block of East Baltimore Street... The clubs serve as brothels and many of the owners and managers deal drugs and underage girls. The police station sits within eye shot pulling their cars up to the station doors and emptying the handcuffed cargo always blindly passing the sadness that blankets their street. City Hall refuses to even admit The Block rages out of control just three blocks away from their doors.

The Block may never have been classy or refined but it also never intended to be. Unfortunately now it has lost any motivation to be anything at all and we Baltimoreans have just allowed that to happen. The less I knew about today's Block the more I wanted to save it...to re-establish the glory days of Blaze and The Oasis. Now the more I understand the rot and decay that oozes from these buisnesses the more I say, "Take it down!"

Free Baltimore from institutionalized prostitution and drug dealing that happens right under the nose of our government. These aren't invisible gang members hiding behind their no snitching cowardice. The City of Baltimore Health Department rolls up every week to hand out clean needles to the users brave enough to ask for help and take care of their bodies. It is no secret that prostitution and sex slavery happens behind the doors of thinly veiled strip clubs. Liquor license violations are handed out to Block club owners like candy.

How many violations does it take to get to the center of a government scandal..1...2......3.. Nope keep counting.