State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby today announced she will make permanent a temporary change that her office announced last year/
Baltimore will continue to decline to prosecute all drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic and misdemeanor cases, and will partner with a local behavioral health service to reach out to drug users, sex workers and people in psychiatric crisis to direct them into treatment.
“What we learned in that year, and it’s so incredibly exciting, is there’s no public safety value in prosecuting these low-level offenses,” she told The Washington Post, which published her remarks this morning.
“These low-level offenses were being and have been discriminately enforced against Black and Brown people,” Mosby told the Post’s Tom Jackman.
Mosby told the newspaper her announcement was unrelated to the fact that she and her husband, City Council President Nick Mosby, are under federal criminal investigation.
The probe was confirmed last Friday when subpoenas surfaced seeking documents relating to the couple’s campaign and personal finances and side business activities.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said in the Post article that while police curtailed arrests for these cases, crime rates declined as well.
“As a practitioner, as an academic, I can say there’s a correlation between the fact that we stopped making these arrests and crime did not go up,” Harrison said.
As part of the announcement, Mosby’s office said it will be partnering with three groups that provide services to sex workers as well as with Baltimore Crisis Response, a private nonprofit group that provides services to people with mental health and substance use disorders.
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I’d wager you won’t find a SINGLE conservative contributing or residing in this city. Want to see a blue print of Biden’s (or more accurately his puppeteers ) AmeriKa? Behold—here it is.
It’s a safe haven created to house Hunter Biden in a place exempt from prosecution, but close to the Capitol and his dad.
They are using the White House and DC as a working example of how not to prosecute crime
So ALL that talk about “We must stop sex trafficing” the other year, was a lie? Go figure.
““What we learned in that year, and it’s so incredibly exciting, is there’s no public safety value in prosecuting these low-level offenses,” Yep, the drug dealers robbing people and murdering people to support their drug habit will make crime go down and of course the social workers and psychology workers will “handle it”. I wonder what it will be like, when these social workers and psychology workers get shot or raped? “Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said in the Post article that while police curtailed arrests for these cases, crime rates declined as well” Oh Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, you are a great puppet / parakeet for Baltimore City State’s Attorney, Marilyn Mosby. “Polly want a cracker”.
Mayor Guillianii SHOWED IF You ignore the low level crimes, you will eventually Get BIGGER CRIMES>. IF you punish the low level crimes, the LIKELY HOOD OF HAVING LOTS of bigger crimes goes DOWN!
When you no longer call drug use, prostitution, domestic violence, and other “low level” crimes actual crimes, and refuse to prosecute them, of course the “crime level” goes down. You believe we are too stupid to see this?
Great. Now we have a safe place to bring all the sex trafficked people from the southern border.
Here is a couple of solutions to curtail these idiots. Make it mandatory for them to live from a few weeks up to a month, depending upon the stupidity of the local official in these lovely communities that are infested with low level crime,prostitution, drug infested areas. Don’t pay them or provide security. Have them do a ride-a-long with a street officer, visit a social worker, visit a soup kitchen and make them meet with at least 2-5 victims families for a minimum of 1 hour each. Lastly make them visit a real prison to meet with actual criminals. Maybe these idiots could wake up and see the real light before they are allowed to implement stupid policies that hurt millions and go back to their safe, gated communities.
WE could vote that in, THEY WOULD STILL not abide by it.
Attention, all prostitutes, drug dealers and addicts… Move to Baltimore
ONLY IF once there, we wall the entire city off… AND SEAL THAT WALL UP TIGHT.
Mosby needs mental services. The policy is enabling offenders and pressurizing victims and their loved ones to be left with violent responses as protection. If prosecution is off the table, then criminals do not need to use the offered services to avoid the threat of prosecution.
SHE is so far mental, NO Services will ever cure her..
Biden just put Minority women like her on federal court s. Will they do their job or put their race first. ??? God help us all
ALL too often it seems ‘women of color” (Hell blacks period) who get put on courts, PUT THEIR RACE/politics BEFORE THE RULE OF LAW…