A CNN town hall last night with President Joe Biden included questions about free-college tuition, vaccine mandates, sky-high prices on everyday necessities, supply chain issues, his infrastructure bill, the Jan. 6 committee and squashing the filibuster, among other topics, but Biden was never asked about the “astronomically high” / “out of control” homicide rate of Democrat-led Baltimore, where the town hall was taking place.

The Baltimore town hall included seven Democratic, two Republican, and three Independent questioners. Biden appeared to maintain control throughout the town hall, which FOX News described as “friendly territory” for Biden.

Not a single question for Biden included anything about Baltimore’s homicide rate, which is one of the highest in the country.

An opinion piece in The Baltimore Sun recently called the city’s homicide rate “steady” and not as bad as most other major cities. But year-over-year, the murder rate has grown 4%, and it's 7% higher right now than at the same time last year, according to FOX 45 Baltimore.

There were 335 homicides in Baltimore in 2020, which has a population under 600,000. The city’s per-capita murder rate makes it one of the deadliest cities in the country.

It is typical of liberal news sources to ignore the problem of violence in Baltimore,” Dr. Richard E. Vatz, a professor at Baltimore-area university Towson, told The National Desk. “It is also scandalous that the major issue for cities is not even discussed.

The words "guns", "homicide", and "gang" did not come up once during the CNN town hall, according to a Sinclair Broadcast Group analysis. The word “crime” came up twice, according to the analysis, but both times in the context of the 1990s and using community policing to quell public safety issues.

Vatz said he believes the reason Biden was not asked about this during the town hall “is the same reason that political office-holders are not asked about the only solution that, long-term, would solve the problem: incentivizing two-parent families and disincentivizing single-parent families.”

Vatz said that such a change “would make a very big difference in a decade or so.”

Fatherlessness, which Vatz said “guarantees non-stop violence” describes 72-75% of Baltimore families. Vatz accused Baltimore politicians, all Democrats, of refusing “to discuss the quality of the population in violent areas.”

“Without facing this issue, Democrats and liberal media have no solutions and don’t want to deal with it,” Vatz added. “In Maryland, only WCBM-Radio and Fox [45] will even discuss it.”