Posted on 08/11/2017 9:02:27 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Gov. Larry Hogan plans to hold a meeting this month with representatives of Baltimore judges, prosecutors and politicians to discuss why more violent offenders aren’t being held in jail longer.
The governor called it “outrageous” that 60 percent of gun offenders convicted in Baltimore have more than half their sentences suspended — a frequent complaint of the police department.
In 2016, 245 people convicted in gun cases in Baltimore were sentenced to less than a year in jail, according to data on convictions shared by police. That’s 43 percent of all cases. Defendants in 33 cases were sentenced to no jail time at all.
“I called in the U.S. Attorney, FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S Marshalls and we just discussed the work they’re all doing to alleviate crime here in the city.” Hogan said. “The crime situation, everybody is very concerned about.”
The mayor called for a holistic approach to fighting crime, to include engaging youth, promoting community health and growing jobs. And she proposed making Baltimore City Community College free for city public school graduates beginning with the class of 2018.
(Excerpt) Read more at baltimoresun.com ...
If they locked up the people causing problems with guns there wouldn’t be a need for more gun control laws, can’t have that........./s
Are the feral negro youth who commit the vast majority of the crime there, be motivated by free community college??? Seeing as how most of them didn’t give e a blank about high school, most didn’t graduate,and in ghetto culture doing well in school is derided as acting white???
This Mayor is your typical leftist twit. Root cause of the problems are never discussed.
Use the Joe Arpaio solution of tent city jails, or really prisons. The state could build these in the more rural parts of the state, not for the worst of prisoners, who are kept in the “brick” prisons, but for the lesser prisoners.
It would slash overcrowding, and permit far longer sentences for the worst of the worst, as well as significantly improve the ratio of guards to prisoners.
Maryland “Freak State” PING!
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