10/08/2025
Murder rate drops in blue city as prosecutor vows ‘you will go to prison’
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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates tells Fox News Digital how a crackdown on repeat offenders and tougher laws has helped drive murders down. After years of surging violence, Baltimore’s top prosecutor says the tide is finally turning — because his office is taking repeat violent offenders off the streets. "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. "When we came into office two years ago, I ran on a platform of going after repeat violent offenders… those were the individuals that we knew were causing the terror in our communities," he said. BALTIMORE RESIDENTS REVEAL WHAT CHANGES THEY WANT TO SEE TO COMBAT CRIME AMID NATIONAL GUARD THREAT A Baltimore Police forensics technician documents the scene where a man was fatally shot by police, on Nov. 7, 2023, in Baltimore.(Jerry Jackson/The Baltimore Sun via AP, File) "If you are a violent repeat offender, you are our number one target, our number one focus,
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