My son and I were cruising the side streets in a neighborhood that I played in as a boy, and still seems to be holding up on the outskirts of Harm City, a few miles from the city line, when he showed me this ridiculous smart phone application his realtor recommended.

The highlighted area is Ridgely Oak/Baynesville, where I have coached at the Corner of Loch Raven and Joppa for these past six years. The area is a walk-thru zone and should not be moved into by non-criminals, but used as a buffer.

The small M-shaped side street grid on the Northeast Corner of Joppa and Loch Raven is an old motel used by drug gangs and dope fiends and run by Africans.

There are eight subsidized housing units and an oft-robbed liquor store at Yakona and Loch Raven.

However, to the east of Oakliegh Road, the zone of courts and dead end streets backing on the Highway and bordered by Putty Hill on the south, as well as the mirror community on the east of 695, are still viable peaceful neighborhoods without the infrastructure to support the crime seen on Loch Raven, which is one of the better main arteries coming out of Baltimore for the simple fact that there is nothing north of the 695 Highway but horse farms and the Loch Raven Dam. there is no North Whitebreadistan, wherein Tyrone and Jamal can find a ready market for their goods among hip-hop identified suburban white brats, just horses, carp and geese.

This should be one of the last Baltimore County zones within the 695 loop to remain viable into the near future. Baynesville itself should be used as a buffer for Oakliegh residents and as a crime soak off marsh by the Loch Raven Village residents across the main street.

What is fascinating about this liberal hipster phone app is they give you the racial breakdown of the area by way of encouraging the embracing of diversity—like it is a positive property value. Maybe the section on Notable & Unique Diversity is a subtle practical reminder that 5.5% of the residences are North African Muslims running local businesses and that 8.1% of the population can be expected to hunt you.

Keep in mind such apps for real hard numbers to offset visual impressions. When you walk through Baynesville almost all you see is blacks—even though they make up less than 10% of the residence, because they tend not to drive and their children are sent outside to play as opposed to staying inside and playing.

Also, check blocking zones, a mile down the street on this same side of Loch Raven is the Loch Raven Village apartments, which are almost totally occupied by employed Latinos, preventing large numbers of predatory unemployed blacks from moving in, and helping preserve the old town home community across the main drag from wholesale white flight.

So get your neighborhood Scout app and look for Notable & Unique Diversity!