Given how blue MD is, I'm assuming this guy is a dem. But to his credit, he's doing something actually useful:
Baltimore is leading the way: All the Democrat city leaders who have meltdowns over President Trump sending federal agents and troops to stop violent crime seldom try the obvious method of preventing it: Just stop the violent crime themselves. It’s actually not that hard, if they’d just stop enacting boneheaded policies. Baltimore is proving that.
After years of rising crime, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates tried a new approach: Go after violent repeat offenders, arrest them, put them in jail, and don’t immediately let them back out again. Mostly by following this simple formula, from 2023 to 2024,
homicides miraculously dropped by 23% and non-fatal shootings were down by 34%. It supports the theory that America isn’t really experiencing a rising criminal wave, but mostly just the same small group of criminals being let out over and over to do it again and again.
Bates said you just have to hold people accountable: “When they know that they will go to jail, their attitudes change greatly.” Good to know! Now, try it with people who attack ICE agents. And the people who organize and fund them