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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


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: baltigeria; baltimore; chicongo; marilynmosby; maryland; mediawingofthednc
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To: healy61

bttt


41 posted on 03/28/2021 6:03:47 AM PDT by linMcHlp
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To: ransomnote

The root causes of Baltimore ( and almost every eastern US city ) are de-industrialization, offshoring and “free trade”.


42 posted on 03/28/2021 6:04:08 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ransomnote

Just giving the folks in Baltimore what they voted for.


43 posted on 03/28/2021 6:04:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ransomnote

So we are supposed to give up our guns and the Government will keep us safe?????


44 posted on 03/28/2021 6:05:07 AM PDT by antidemoncrat (som)
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To: ransomnote

The “root” cause is always Electoral Fraud. ALWAYS

ALL “progressive/left” power originates from Electoral Fraud. ALL urban decline commences with electoral fraud. ALL OF IT.

The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses..allowing the criminals to run the show.

Electoral Fraud ALWAYS precedes Leftism and Progressivism..because at the end of the day..Leftism is essentially a disordered mind/mental illness...and most people who can hold a job and are productive enough to be taxpayers are not mentally ill and reason just fine.

Those aiding and abetting local Electoral Fraud then get “theirs’ from the process starting in motion the urban declines. In the 50/60/70’s it was the bookies/the mob, by the 70/80/90’s the dope cartels, by now it has evolved into human trafficking with manifold different expressions as outlined in multiple places on the interwebs

Once the fraudulent processes are in place the networks of control assembled from decades of accumulated dirt and control crimes on one another in local and state and national politics layer and layer into a massive social/administrative/economic national mess. A slow “progression”into a nationwide dystopia.

Electoral Fraud is ALWAYS the root.


45 posted on 03/28/2021 6:05:54 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: central_va

In other words, if we hadn’t shipped their jobs out of the country, a lot of this wouldn’t even be happening.


46 posted on 03/28/2021 6:07:58 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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To: ransomnote

Gee what could go wrong???


47 posted on 03/28/2021 6:09:43 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: central_va
The root causes of Baltimore's socio-economic ( and almost every eastern US city ) are de-industrialization, offshoring and “free trade”.

Fixed it.

48 posted on 03/28/2021 6:09:52 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ransomnote

A year ago, Mosby began an experiment to stop prosecuting drug and sex crimes. In the last couple months, her and her husband, (The City Council President) bought two Florida properties at over $1mm.

Kinda makes you wonder if the drug dealers and human traffickers played a part in their savings accounts?

Hmmmm


49 posted on 03/28/2021 6:12:52 AM PDT by cyclotic (Live your life in such a way that they hate you as much as they hated Rush Limbaugh)
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To: TwelveOfTwenty
In other words, if we hadn’t shipped their jobs out of the country, a lot of this wouldn’t even be happening.

To simplify, yes. See, we ideologues on the right so hated unions that we sacrificed out entire industrial base to the globalist cabal for a quick buck. Well there are no more private sector union jobs n B-town anymore. Ain't it great????

Learn to code deal drugs.

50 posted on 03/28/2021 6:13:26 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: mo

The root cause was de - industrialization.


51 posted on 03/28/2021 6:14:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: ransomnote

Most sober people has come to realize that urban America is Democratic, lawless and unlivable.


52 posted on 03/28/2021 6:15:16 AM PDT by allendale
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To: ransomnote

Considering the source is ABC News, every word should be questioned.


53 posted on 03/28/2021 6:16:42 AM PDT by Spok (All free men are equal only in their freedom; everything else is up to them.)
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To: central_va

yes...caused by

“The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses...”

that “trickles up” into national politics eventually


54 posted on 03/28/2021 6:16:44 AM PDT by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: ransomnote

Used to be urban legend that “the Man” was flooding the hoods with drugs to keep people oppressed.

I used to dismiss it, now I’m beginning to think it was just the usual mental ju-jitsu. Falsely accusing the right for things the left is actually doing.


55 posted on 03/28/2021 6:18:30 AM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: ransomnote

so the crime will still be there...
BUT THE STATISTICS WILL LOOK GREAT!


56 posted on 03/28/2021 6:27:21 AM PDT by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: ransomnote

Baltimore - the Mogadishu of Maryland.


57 posted on 03/28/2021 6:27:34 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: central_va

That’s where the UN comes in.


58 posted on 03/28/2021 6:29:36 AM PDT by DownInFlames (G)
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To: ransomnote

We are on our own. Leave? and go where? This is spreading like a cancer.


59 posted on 03/28/2021 6:31:15 AM PDT by LibertyWoman
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To: central_va
Let's not forget that we had a President who was working to and succeeding in bringing back those outsourced jobs. These cities repaid him not only by voting to impeach him in 2018, but by engaging in voter fraud to vote him out.

They are as much at fault for this as any free traitors.

60 posted on 03/28/2021 6:35:24 AM PDT by TwelveOfTwenty (Still praying for our country and President Trump)
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