In Marilyn Mosby’s Baltimore, Repeat Criminals Go Free to Kill

7/23/22
 
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from The Wall Street Journal,
7/22/22:

A majority of the city’s murders since 2015 were committed by suspects who should have been in prison.

Baltimore isn’t the country’s murder capital—that distinction belongs to St. Louis—but it’s close. Charm City has recorded more than 2,500 homicides since 2015. Many of these killings could have been prevented, my analysis of court records and police data suggests, if the justice system had worked as intended.

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