Posted on 07/26/2022 5:29:49 PM PDT by cotton1706
Last week, Baltimore state’s attorney Marilyn Mosby lost in the Democratic primary contest to retain her position. Around the country, other de-prosecuting prosecutors are being removed one by one, as their failing policies and ethical problems culminate in disorder and public distrust. Is the progressive prosecutor movement on the decline?
Mosby’s original campaign platform was to ignore entire categories of crimes and to reduce sentences even for violent criminals. The criminals got the message: Baltimore was a free-fire zone. Homicides exceeded 300 per year in the Charm City every year that Mosby was in office, making Baltimore one of the nation’s most dangerous municipalities. People and businesses fled the city, with over 35,000 residents exiting, even as the rest of Maryland grew in population. Just a few weeks before the primary, a report from the Maryland Public Policy Institute detailed how many of the homicides in Baltimore were committed by criminals who would have been in jail under a normal prosecution regime. Mosby did not help her position by ending up under federal indictment for perjury charges alleging that she made false statements while applying for pandemic-related loans to buy a vacation home in Florida. Mosby’s victorious opponent, Ivan Bates, is something of an unknown quantity, but he campaigned explicitly on a public-safety platform, as his campaign materials make clear: “To build a safer Baltimore, we must have a functional and efficient prosecutor’s office led by a State’s Attorney who prioritizes public safety.”
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It’s a bonus that Lock-down Larry’s preferred GOPee Governator candidate was shown the door.
Can’t happen too soon.
It’s a little deceiving to lead people to think that corruipt crooked Mosby’s loss was because the good people of Balto decided she needed to go. It was a factor, but it’ll be harder to get rid of the rest...let’s start with the one with the stripper name...Kim Foxx, in Chitcago. That’s the 2nd largest prosecutorial office in the US and first when it comes to corruption. Getting rid of her should be someone’s top priority. Someone with lot of $$$.
How long did it take her to play the race card?
Shorter than one Planck time, the shortest time interval (in today’s physics, at least).
And remember, playing the race card also sets the uttering individual as having the lowest measurable IQ interval in the multiverse.
She’s been playing that card all along.
Didn’t work this time. Everyone involved is black.
Nationalize the election. Bring all the State Atty. general candidates together and come up with a concensus on what to do. Should Minnesota pardon Chauvin?
Well they were collecting pay for doing nothing
What about "progressive" mayors?
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There’s more where those came from.
I wouldn’t get too excited about this. Going one notch down on the liberal meter is like going from “batsh$t” to merely “insane.”
........the only hope for these marxist/democrat run cities is for a Republican Governor to declare martial law, arrest every elected politician for corruption (I doubt there is one honest one) and then impose a curfew, make thousands of arrests and prosecute in military run courts.
Huge, military run prisons on federal lands far from any city will then have to be constructed. Put Sheriff Joe in charge of all of them.
If I don’t do the job I am paid to do I get fired. Why is this so shocking to government employees?
She always played the race game. You had to be from the Baltimore area to have seen the early signs.
When white moderate liberal Democrat mayor finished his two terms, it was the key sign that Baltimore was going down the black, leftist, racist craphole pretty soon.
My mother and uncle were on the Mayor’s Arts/Cultural Advisory Board and knew what was coming down the racist, incompetence pike.
The new, unofficial city theme song was “The Year Baltimore Died”. It has never changed for “those in the know”. And the bodies just kept piling up high and deep.
Charm City became Harm City and has stayed that way.
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