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Baltimore will no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, low-level crimes
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.
Also at WBAL-TV.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 29 2021, @07:30AM
Case in point: Montana Senator Steve
MillerDaines, waxing nostalgic [thedailybeast.com] for the days when all the Meth in Montana was Made in Montana" [madeinmontanausa.com]. I remember those days. That was some pretty bad Meth.