Saying spending priorities need to be changed, a group of workers and faith groups picketed outside Baltimore City Hall last night calling for the city to put more resources into finding jobs for city residents and youth.

“These spending priorities are a prediction for failure,” Alexis Flanagan, of the Safe and Sound Campaign, told Baltimore videographer Bill Hughes.

Flanagan said her group reviewed the city’s discretionary budget and found that $265 million went to crime control, while $24 million “went to healthy development of young people, early child education, after-school programs and youth jobs.”