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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The root causes of Baltimore ( and almost every eastern US city ) are de-industrialization, offshoring and “free trade”.
Just giving the folks in Baltimore what they voted for.
So we are supposed to give up our guns and the Government will keep us safe?????
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.
In other words, if we hadn’t shipped their jobs out of the country, a lot of this wouldn’t even be happening.
Gee what could go wrong???
Fixed it.
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
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.
The root cause was de - industrialization.
Most sober people has come to realize that urban America is Democratic, lawless and unlivable.
Considering the source is ABC News, every word should be questioned.
yes...caused by
“The disenfranchised voters then leave...taking their money and their businesses...”
that “trickles up” into national politics eventually
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.
so the crime will still be there...
BUT THE STATISTICS WILL LOOK GREAT!
Baltimore - the Mogadishu of Maryland.
That’s where the UN comes in.
We are on our own. Leave? and go where? This is spreading like a cancer.
They are as much at fault for this as any free traitors.
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