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Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level crimes
nbcnews.com/ ^ | March 26, 2021 | Jon Schuppe

Posted on 03/28/2021 5:27:03 AM PDT by ransomnote

A pandemic experiment in criminal justice reform takes hold in one of America's most violent cities.

A year ago, as the coronavirus began to spread across Maryland, Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby stopped prosecuting drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic violations and other low-level offenses, a move aimed at curbing Covid-19's spread behind bars.

That shift — repeated by prosecutors in many other cities — didn’t just reduce jail populations. In Baltimore, nearly all categories of crime have since declined, confirming to Mosby what she and criminal justice experts have argued for years: Crackdowns on quality-of-life crimes are not necessary for stopping more serious crime.

On Friday, Mosby announced that she was making her pandemic experiment permanent, saying Baltimore — for decades notorious for runaway violence and rough policing — had become a case study in criminal justice reform.

In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent, she said. Homicides inched down, though Baltimore still has one of the highest homicide rates among cities nationwide. Researchers at Johns Hopkins University found sharp reductions in calls to police complaining about drugs and prostitution, she said.MORE AT LINK


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KEYWORDS: baltigeria; baltimore; chicongo; marilynmosby; maryland; mediawingofthednc
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To: ransomnote

Should do wonders for the peace and tranquility of the rest of the population. But they absolutely deserve the hell that’s about to descend on them.


101 posted on 03/28/2021 8:46:49 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
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To: Brilliant
No one going to 'register' a crime when they know nothing is gong to happen. Why bother? Same with cops... why go after a criminal when you know it's a joke - the guy's taken in and let out the same hour... These big city democrat filth are trying to make their hellholes look less violent - by ignoring crime and violence being inflicted on their residents. Don't know who these hellhole mayors and 'prosecutors' are to trick.

Maybe there's some high tech companies stupid enough to 'read the city crime stats' and not do triple checks to find where democrats running the places are lying and cheating.

102 posted on 03/28/2021 8:55:34 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds)
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To: Brilliant
No one going to 'register' a crime when they know nothing is gong to happen. Why bother? Same with cops... why go after a criminal when you know it's a joke - the guy's taken in and let out the same hour... These big city democrat filth are trying to make their hellholes look less violent - by ignoring crime and violence being inflicted on their residents. Don't know who these hellhole mayors and 'prosecutors' are to trick.

Maybe there's some high tech companies stupid enough to 'read the city crime stats' and not do triple checks to find where democrats running the places are lying and cheating. In which case they deserve what they get and each other...

103 posted on 03/28/2021 8:56:57 AM PDT by GOPJ (https://s3media.247sports.com/Uploads/Assets/21/315/10315021.jpeg?width=600&fit=bounds)
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To: ransomnote

Why should any city shut down its main industry?


104 posted on 03/28/2021 9:19:33 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( COVID lockdowns are the Establishment's attack on the middle class and our Republic )
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To: ransomnote

This isn’t going to stop in Baltimore. It’s going to go nationwide.


105 posted on 03/28/2021 9:43:34 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: All

Forget pot. We’ll go to Baltimore for legal heroin and cocaine.


106 posted on 03/28/2021 9:44:28 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Biden/Harris - the regime our Founding fathers warned us about.)
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To: ransomnote

In the 12 months since she ordered scaled-back enforcement, violent crime is down 20 percent and property crime has declined 36 percent!

She is a miracle worker.

Replace Xiden and Camel Toes with her to save America and the world.


107 posted on 03/28/2021 9:49:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: americas.best.days...
Excellent reality summary:

Not my problem. In fact, I’ll just go ahead and say it. I like this. I like sanctuary cities. And I base that on the assumption that most of the garbage people in my country are aware of these protections and migrate to those areas, where they can live their lawless lives, away from where I live.

Kind of how a strip of flypaper works. Sorry, not sorry!

Thanks toamericas.best.days... for the above reality.

108 posted on 03/28/2021 10:00:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave ("The Covid 19 Circus has run out of acts. It’s time to reopen. It is past time! It’s long overdue! ")
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To: americas.best.days...

you have a point.....gather all the idiots under one roof.....


109 posted on 03/28/2021 10:07:45 AM PDT by cherry (we are the Remnant)
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To: Skywise

Double plus good comrade. The boot factory even beat their mandatory quota of boot production. Life is good.


110 posted on 03/28/2021 10:13:00 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: ransomnote

And the ensuing peace will draw in thousands of new residents from the suburbs.


111 posted on 03/28/2021 10:13:08 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: usconservative

It’s just like graduation rates in inner city (black) schools. Lower the standards and EVERYONE is a winner. Remember that one school where every student had straight As and got accepted to prestigious colleges only to find out they were illiterate?


112 posted on 03/28/2021 10:14:06 AM PDT by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes.)
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To: ransomnote

Baltimore needs to change it’s name to Dodge City pre Earp days ensue.


113 posted on 03/28/2021 10:16:51 AM PDT by Vaduz (women and children to be impacIQ of chimpsted the most.)
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To: usconservative

I think we Mosby aware of this. We already are.😉


114 posted on 03/28/2021 10:22:19 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Mosby true!


115 posted on 03/28/2021 10:23:07 AM PDT by sauropod (Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: maxwellsmart_agent
"Sounds like Baltimore is following in Chicago’s footsteps."

Mostly peaceful. Yep.

116 posted on 03/28/2021 10:42:12 AM PDT by outofsalt (If history teaches us anything, it's that history rarely teaches anything.)
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To: ransomnote

Next edict; Baltimore will no longer prosecute corrupt officials.


117 posted on 03/28/2021 10:46:06 AM PDT by DPMD
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To: DPMD

Kimberly Klacik warned the people of Baltimore in a very direct, powerful message, that continuing to vote Democrat was a vote to accept the continued destruction of their city. By a margin of 71.6 to 28, the idiots chose to remain mired in the filth and squalor of the Democrat plantation. Decisions have consequences. I have no sympathy for anyone in that asylum.


118 posted on 03/28/2021 12:02:13 PM PDT by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: ransomnote; 100American; Abundy; Albion Wilde; AlwaysFree; AnnaSASsyFR; bayliving; BFM; Bigg Red; ..

Maryland “Freak State” PING!


119 posted on 03/28/2021 12:25:26 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: Leaning Right

Could it be that tyrannical COVID hysteria manages to keep some more of the thugs inside?

There goes your decline. It wasn’t until the riots all over caterwauling about BLM that crime started going up again and the killings definitely started going up.


120 posted on 03/28/2021 1:01:16 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs. I )
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