How Keeping Track of Slumlords Became One Baltimore Woman's Full-Time Job

Carol Ott is used to words of concern from Baltimore city bus drivers. They tend to reveal their surprise that a diminutive, middle-age white woman would want to walk through neighborhoods where boarded-up or burned-out vacant properties—and the crime that tends to pop up in such areas where no one’s looking—are a common sight.

Her response never changes. Yes, she tells them, this is my stop.