How to reduce Baltimore’s violent crime: Do everything possible

Baltimore suffers no shortage of reminders that it has a gun violence problem. From this week’s trial of the man accused of killing Safe Streets leader Dante Barksdale last year to the man found dead Sunday in his home in Better Waverly, rare are the days when the city’s nearly one-a-day homicide pace is interrupted. It is enough to make anyone, at least with an ounce of human compassion, scream — perhaps like the fictional TV anchorman Howard Beale from the 1976 movie “Network” who encouraged viewers to shout, “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take this anymore.”