Baltimore Murder Rate Drops as prosecutor vows ‘you will go to prison’

[anatta]

enforce the law and no more revolving door justice and crime drops...who'd a thunk?

Murder rate drops in blue city as prosecutor vows ‘you will go to prison’

Baltimore's top prosecutor Ivan Bates explains how focusing on repeat violent offenders and invoking mandatory minimums helped reduce the city's murder rate significantly.

www.foxnews.com

"We had to let the criminal element know that it was a new day, that there was accountability and that you will go to prison," said Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates told Fox News Digital.

Bates said his crime-fighting platform was built around one promise: go after the people doing the most damage.

"If you are a violent repeat offender, you are our number one target, our number one focus, and we need to remove you from the street," Bates continued.

According to Bates, there were between 5,000 and 6,000 such offenders in the city. His office zeroed in on illegal gun cases involving convicted felons, using a powerful tool Maryland law already provided.

"In Maryland, if you carry a gun and you’re a repeat violent offender, the state’s attorney’s office could invoke a count that’s a mandatory minimum, which means that you would go to prison a minimum of five years without the possibility of parole," Bates explained. "It’s a minimum mandatory. The previous administration did not invoke those charges, accounts. We did."
"There is no magic pill. You just have to really hold people accountable," he explained. "When they know that they will go to jail, their attitudes change greatly."

 

[Allan]

Baltimore's murder rate has been dropping for three years.

 

[Luce]

Baltimore's murder rate has been dropping for three years.

Why you you shamelessly bump off his clickbait thread like that?

 

[ColdHardTruth]

enforce the law and no more revolving door justice and crime drops...who'd a thunk?

Murder rate drops in blue city as prosecutor vows ‘you will go to prison’

Baltimore's top prosecutor Ivan Bates explains how focusing on repeat violent offenders and invoking mandatory minimums helped reduce the city's murder rate significantly.

www.foxnews.com

"We had to let the criminal element know that it was a new day, that there was accountability and that you will go to prison," said Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates told Fox News Digital.

Bates said his crime-fighting platform was built around one promise: go after the people doing the most damage.

"If you are a violent repeat offender, you are our number one target, our number one focus, and we need to remove you from the street," Bates continued.

According to Bates, there were between 5,000 and 6,000 such offenders in the city. His office zeroed in on illegal gun cases involving convicted felons, using a powerful tool Maryland law already provided.

"In Maryland, if you carry a gun and you’re a repeat violent offender, the state’s attorney’s office could invoke a count that’s a mandatory minimum, which means that you would go to prison a minimum of five years without the possibility of parole," Bates explained. "It’s a minimum mandatory. The previous administration did not invoke those charges, accounts. We did."
"There is no magic pill. You just have to really hold people accountable," he explained. "When they know that they will go to jail, their attitudes change greatly."

We all know Faux is not a valid source.

Please try again with a source that is not owned by a self-confessed lying sack of feces.

 

[anatta]

Baltimore's murder rate has been dropping for three years.

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2023 is when when Bates took Office
On January 3, 2023, Ivan J. Bates was sworn in as the 26th State's Attorney for Baltimore City.

 

[Questerr]

enforce the law and no more revolving door justice and crime drops...who'd a thunk?

Murder rate drops in blue city as prosecutor vows ‘you will go to prison’

Baltimore's top prosecutor Ivan Bates explains how focusing on repeat violent offenders and invoking mandatory minimums helped reduce the city's murder rate significantly.

www.foxnews.com

"We had to let the criminal element know that it was a new day, that there was accountability and that you will go to prison," said Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates told Fox News Digital.

Bates said his crime-fighting platform was built around one promise: go after the people doing the most damage.

"If you are a violent repeat offender, you are our number one target, our number one focus, and we need to remove you from the street," Bates continued.

According to Bates, there were between 5,000 and 6,000 such offenders in the city. His office zeroed in on illegal gun cases involving convicted felons, using a powerful tool Maryland law already provided.

"In Maryland, if you carry a gun and you’re a repeat violent offender, the state’s attorney’s office could invoke a count that’s a mandatory minimum, which means that you would go to prison a minimum of five years without the possibility of parole," Bates explained. "It’s a minimum mandatory. The previous administration did not invoke those charges, accounts. We did."
"There is no magic pill. You just have to really hold people accountable," he explained. "When they know that they will go to jail, their attitudes change greatly."

Fox has said under oath that no reasonable person would ever believe they accurately report the news.

Do you agree with Fox that you are an unreasonable person?

 

[anatta]

Fox has said under oath that no reasonable person would ever believe they accurately report the news.

Do you agree with Fox that you are an unreasonable person?

then do your own ****ing research. Jesus ****ing Christ enough of the LZ mind source whining!
There is hard data in the OP to support the concept

 

[j brown's body]

LOL! You think crime went down in Baltimore because the police commissioner yelled at criminals? What a joke

Hint: It wasn't through pouring more money and resources into police actions. It never is. My whole life I have heard we need more law and order, and we get it, but crime doesn't go down. Why the libs for generation after generation lets this fiction thrive (true, "we need more law and order" is a seductive cliche) but there is a better way.

How Baltimore’s violent crime rate hit an all-time low: ‘This is not magic. It’s hard work’​

"Violent crime in America’s big cities has been receding from pandemic highs for about two years. But even in comparison, Baltimore’s improvement is breathtaking: fewer people have been killed in the city over the last seven months than in any similar period in the last 50 years. As of 15 August, the running 365-day total for murders in Baltimore stood at 165 dead. Assuming the city remains on that pace, its murder rate would finish below 30 per 100,000 residents for the first time since 1986. If it remains on the pace set since 1 January, it would finish 2025 at 143 murders, a rate of about 25 per 100,000, last seen in Baltimore in 1978. It confounds Baltimore’s bloody legacy. An army of social workers, violence interventionists, prosecutors, community leaders, and even cops all pulling in the same direction for once has made David Simon’s stories from The Wire or Donald Trump’s exasperating trash talk less relevant.

...Baltimore had tried more than one way to attack violent crime, from zero-tolerance “broken windows” policing to relying on neighborhood crime statistics to motivate police officers into making more arrests. Efforts to get guns off the street backfired spectacularly from political interference, incompetence and, with the GTTF, corruption. ...against a Baltimore police budget topping half a billion dollars – the largest police budget per capita of any large city in the US – Baltimore’s political establishment gave its new millennial mayor room to experiment with $50m in Washington’s money.

...Scott appointed Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner in June 2023; Worley was a life-long Baltimore officer picked in part to bring the rank and file in line with Scott’s antiviolence program. Scott emphasizes partnerships as an important part of the plan’s successes. The first step was to get everyone on board – the cops, the hospitals, the jails, the schools, the social services teams, the state government and the feds. Other federal grants, from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, emerged in 2022 to help support the network of non-profits needed for the plan. The funding came from the first federal gun-control legislation enacted in 28 years, with the support of 15 Senate Republicans and $250m over five years for community violence-intervention programs under the Department of Justice.

Link

 

[ColdHardTruth]

then do your own ****ing research. Jesus ****ing Christ enough of the LZ mind source whining!
There is hard data in the OP to support the concept

If you want to be taken seriously, stop posting from propaganda sites.

 

[j brown's body]

Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott discusses how the city has brought violent crime down

"We know what causes it, right? When you have, here in Baltimore, the birthplace of redlining, purposeful disinvestment into neighborhoods over generations and generations. And at the same time, deindustrialization. And then you, of course, have the influx of drugs into the communities. You just have a melting pot of disaster.

September is when we fully implemented our comprehensive violence prevention plan. So, when you look deep into that plan it is multifaceted. We have the group violence reduction strategy, which is a focused deterrence model, where we actually go to those who are most likely to be the victim or perpetrator of gun violence. They get a letter directly from me. We knock on their door and say 'We know who you are. We know what you do. Change your life. We'll help you do it. But if you don't, we're going to remove you via law enforcement'. Those who have taken us up on change in their life – over 90% of them have not re-injured, revictimized or recidivated in crime.

We actually have case managers. They work with these people every day to make sure that they're getting the things that they need. I'll give you some examples. There was a young man who told our folks when they knocked on the door that this was the first time he had been involved in that life since he was 12, that anyone told him he could do any different. There are people who are now working for the city, at the public works, and at the convention center. Folks who have changed their life around because they're getting all of their support from the community portion of the group violence reduction strategy.
When you look at how we were able to really grow our community violence intervention ecosystem at such a rapid pace is because we used 50 million of APRA (the American Rescue Plan Act) to do so. We have local money into it, obviously, state money, philanthropic money and the federal money. That helped us to really rapidly deploy all of these resources."

 

[Cork]

I don't understand the point of this thread. Are there places out there where people think they can just commit dangerous crimes free from consequence?

 

[Questerr]

then do your own ****ing research. Jesus ****ing Christ enough of the LZ mind source whining!
There is hard data in the OP to support the concept

That’s not an answer. Do you agree with Fox that you are an unreasonable person?

 

[Luce]

then do your own ****ing research.

And just like that, the Karen/Kyle gene activated.

 

[anatta]

LOL! You think crime went down in Baltimore because the police commissioner yelled at criminals? Whqat a joke

Hint: It wasn't through pouring more money and resources into police actions. It never is. My whole life I have heard we need more law and order, and we get it, but crime doesn't go down. Why the libs for generation after generation lets this fiction thrive (true, "we need more law and order" is a seductive cliche) but there is a better way.

How Baltimore’s violent crime rate hit an all-time low: ‘This is not magic. It’s hard work’​

"Violent crime in America’s big cities has been receding from pandemic highs for about two years. But even in comparison, Baltimore’s improvement is breathtaking: fewer people have been killed in the city over the last seven months than in any similar period in the last 50 years. As of 15 August, the running 365-day total for murders in Baltimore stood at 165 dead. Assuming the city remains on that pace, its murder rate would finish below 30 per 100,000 residents for the first time since 1986. If it remains on the pace set since 1 January, it would finish 2025 at 143 murders, a rate of about 25 per 100,000, last seen in Baltimore in 1978. It confounds Baltimore’s bloody legacy. An army of social workers, violence interventionists, prosecutors, community leaders, and even cops all pulling in the same direction for once has made David Simon’s stories from The Wire or Donald Trump’s exasperating trash talk less relevant.

...Baltimore had tried more than one way to attack violent crime, from zero-tolerance “broken windows” policing to relying on neighborhood crime statistics to motivate police officers into making more arrests. Efforts to get guns off the street backfired spectacularly from political interference, incompetence and, with the GTTF, corruption. ...against a Baltimore police budget topping half a billion dollars – the largest police budget per capita of any large city in the US – Baltimore’s political establishment gave its new millennial mayor room to experiment with $50m in Washington’s money.

...Scott appointed Richard Worley as the city’s new police commissioner in June 2023; Worley was a life-long Baltimore officer picked in part to bring the rank and file in line with Scott’s antiviolence program. Scott emphasizes partnerships as an important part of the plan’s successes. The first step was to get everyone on board – the cops, the hospitals, the jails, the schools, the social services teams, the state government and the feds. Other federal grants, from the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, emerged in 2022 to help support the network of non-profits needed for the plan. The funding came from the first federal gun-control legislation enacted in 28 years, with the support of 15 Senate Republicans and $250m over five years for community violence-intervention programs under the Department of Justice.

Link

I am from Baltimore and know all that "commumity policing" and junk

Why has crime dropped preciptuously in the last 3 years? It aint the policing it's the Baltimore States Atty targeting violent re-offenders

READ THE OP

 

[Allan]

2023 is when when Bates took Office
On January 3, 2023, Ivan J. Bates was sworn in as the 26th State's Attorney for Baltimore City.

But mandatory state minimum sentences have been around since 2016. Why is he taking credit for them?

 

[element94]

We all know Faux is not a valid source.

Please try again with a source that is not owned by a self-confessed lying sack of feces.

And paid nearly a billion dollars to be known as a lying sack of feces. That man gets what he wants!

 

[j brown's body]

I don't understand the point of this thread. Are there places out there where people think they can just commit dangerous crimes free from consequence?

Educate yourself.

“Ghettoside”

 

[anatta]

I don't understand the point of this thread. Are there places out there where people think they can just commit dangerous crimes free from consequence?

where you been? The perp that killed that Ukrainian woman ( latest ex) on the NY subways had a long criminal record

 

[anatta]

But mandatory state minimum sentences have been around since 2016. Why is he taking credit for them?

Look at your graph. Bates comes in in 2023. why? because he is ENFORCING them..* arrgh* i'm gonna blow a blood vessel from all the dissembling on this thread. you all have a nice day

 

[element94]

Soooo... they weren't going to prison for murder before? I think they finally found the problem.

 

[Luce]

because he is ENFORCING them..* arrgh* i'm gonna blow a blood vessel from all the dissembling on this thread. you all have a nice day

Mandatory minimums don't require enforcing. They're automatic. That's the whole point.

 

[ElChupacabra]

2023 is when when Bates took Office
On January 3, 2023, Ivan J. Bates was sworn in as the 26th State's Attorney for Baltimore City.

This is a great example of cherry picking, since there have been other efforts that have led to this as well. The city has also invested in community programs that offer different opportunities to young kids to help prevent those kids from going into a life of crime.

 

[anatta]

Mandatory minimums don't require enforcing. They're automatic. That's the whole point.

"In Maryland, if you carry a gun and you’re a repeat violent offender, the state’s attorney’s office could invoke a count that’s a mandatory minimum, which means that you would go to prison a minimum of five years without the possibility of parole," Bates explained. "It’s a minimum mandatory. The previous administration did not invoke those charges, accounts. We did."

 

[anatta]

This is a great example of cherry picking, since there have been other efforts that have led to this as well. The city has also invested in community programs that offer different opportunities to young kids to help prevent those kids from going into a life of crime.

hey that's all well and good. and the poor folks stuck in Balto need all the help they can get.
sadly it's a shithole But the crime reduction itself comes from enforcement

 

[Luce]

"In Maryland, if you carry a gun and you’re a repeat violent offender, the state’s attorney’s office could invoke a count that’s a mandatory minimum, which means that you would go to prison a minimum of five years without the possibility of parole," Bates explained. "It’s a minimum mandatory. The previous administration did not invoke those charges, accounts. We did."

So he's making counts fit crimes instead of the other way around?