Today, Governor Wes Moore and the Baltimore Orioles announced their joint commitment to creating a long-term, multi-decade, public-private partnership that both develops and revitalizes the Camden Yards complex as a magnet for sports tourism and leverages Maryland taxpayers’ investment in the property. Governor Moore and the Orioles look forward to continuing the conversation about the next evolution of this critical partnership for Maryland and the City of Baltimore.

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They know exactly how to make it safer. Crime was much lower 10, even 5 years ago. We haven't forgotten how that was done. Just like every other major city, they lack the political will to do what needs to be done.

Bail has been radically reduced, police have stopped arresting people for quality of life crimes, and have stopped confronting likely offenders. This stuff isn't rocket science.

Crime has zero correlation with the economy.

Why is it that poverty is not consistently related to crime? A major reason is that crimes of violence are usually motivated by quarrels, personal grudges, perceived insults, and similar interpersonal conflicts, not by economic necessity. Consequently, a decline in one’s financial condition is not likely to cause violent criminal behavior. This explains why an economic recession or depression does not invariably produce a crime spike. In the second half of the 1930s, for instance, violent crime declined, even though the country experienced some of the worst years of the Great Depression. Likewise, during the Great Recession of 2007–2009, when the economy tanked, crime fell.

In recent years, this became viewed as somehow racist (even though the victims of these crimes are black in the same proportion as the perpetrators). Bail has been radically reduced, police have stopped arresting people for quality of life crimes, and have stopped confronting likely offenders. This stuff isn't rocket science.

Just in my state, NY recently made it much harder to try 14-17 y.o.s. as adults for serious crime. Result: shootings and killings by teenagers have skyrocketed. DAs have stopped prosecuting people for shoplifting and petit larceny. Result: stores are being robbed blind and closing.

I live here, and talk to people who can't wait to flee NYC because it has been deliberately allowed to descend back into disorder.

"Every time we do our job as law enforcement and city administrators, we're seeing this revolving door catch, release, repeat system that's really playing out all across the country," Adams said, questioning when lawmakers will support policies that "protect the innocent people of this city and this country."

"We have to stop passing laws that protect the guilty," Adams added.

"Every time we do our job as law enforcement and city administrators, we're seeing this revolving door catch, release, repeat system that's really playing out all across the country," Adams said, questioning when lawmakers will support policies that "protect the innocent people of this city and this country."

"We have to stop passing laws that protect the guilty," Adams added.

The DAs in NY were funded and elected on that platform.

"Every time we do our job as law enforcement and city administrators, we're seeing this revolving door catch, release, repeat system that's really playing out all across the country," Adams said, questioning when lawmakers will support policies that "protect the innocent people of this city and this country."

"We have to stop passing laws that protect the guilty," Adams added.

Pretty easy to tell someone's not innocent when they have $1000 of merchandise from Duane Reade in a sack.

Like most right wingers, you don't understand the concept of bail. Its purpose is not to keep people in prison.

Right, it's purpose is to impose a cost for crimes that we're not going to keep you in prison for, while you're awaiting trial, and to make you show up for trial. If you're simply going to be charged and released, with no conditions, that removes some disincentive for crime.

You watch too much Fox.

I live here, and talk to people who can't wait to flee NYC because it has been deliberately allowed to descend back into disorder.

No, they're not innocent, they're "presumed innocent" which is a totally different thing. So, when someone is released without bail, and then gets caught again for the same crime a day later, you really think they should be just cut loose again? What about after 5 times? 10 times?

Murder went up 40% from 2019 to 2021. Is that Fox News? All major categories of crime are way up.

Compared to 5, 10, 15, 20 years ago crime is down in NYC by either all metrics or almost all metrics.

I gotta stop talking to the BBTF woke brigades. Y'all are simply divorced from reality.

First, the systematic efforts by one party (Republicans) to undermine every aspect of American governance, as well as confidence in all American systems from dog catching to National defense to our elections themselves.

The increase in crime during the period from 2016 forward has two main causes. First, the systematic efforts by one party (Republicans) to undermine every aspect of American governance . . .

The quality of their arguments further atrophied around the time that they concluded that everyone who disagreed with them was a Russian bot.

The way to reduce crime in America is to start treating the bottom 80% of our society like they matter: guaranteed healthcare/shelter/food would be a start.

Many analysts, along with the general public, believe that poverty is a major, if not the major, cause of crime. But a new study from a Columbia University research group should remind us of something that history has consistently shown: that the relationship between poverty and crime is far from predictable or consistent. The Columbia study revealed the startling news that nearly one-quarter (23 percent) of New York City’s Asian population was impoverished, a proportion exceeding that of the city’s black population (19 percent). This was surprising, given the widespread perception that Asians are among the nation’s more affluent social groups. But the study contains an even more startling aspect: in New York City, Asians’ relatively high poverty rate is accompanied by exceptionally low crime rates. This undercuts the common belief that poverty and crime go hand in hand.

So, you on board with the idea that people of little means should be punished for merely being accused of a crime?

BTW, does your grave concern over the "people of little means" extend to working class J6 protestors who had to post bail for criminal trespass (i.e., not seditious conspiracy) or nah?

The Constitution guarantees a right to a speedy and public trial, not for those accused of violent crimes to freely roam the streets until then.

it's purpose is to impose a cost for crimes that we're not going to keep you in prison for, while you're awaiting trial,

The Constitution guarantees a right to a speedy and public trial, not for those accused of violent crimes to freely roam the streets until then.

Why don't you guys just come out and say it?
It's black people's fault. You know you want to.

Note that, in the hierarchy of concerns, the first thing mentioned is excessive bail

Yes, let's note the "excessive" qualifier too.

On the other hand -- Ignoring for a moment platitudes and wishful thinking, some people just pose a threat to the community. The loony ones can be remanded for psychiatric investigation and taken off the streets that way.

Low Bail or ROR for small property crimes by people who are likely to show up, should be assumed. If they re-offend while out, and the evidence before the judge is sufficient to demonstrate their guilt on that score, I am not overly worked up by having bail revoked or substantially increased.

But for violent criminals, like gang members, I lose no sleep of them being remanded without bail as "likely flight risks" or just because.

Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; (I am large. I contain multitudes).

The Constitution guarantees a right to a speedy and public trial, not for those accused of violent crimes to freely roam the streets until then.

The problem is it's the cops who get to decide who is a violent gang member and who isn't and they have a horrible track record.

I mean, it actually does. The 8th Amendment expressly denies the government the power to set excessive bail.

EDIT: And, I'd add, the 5th and 14th amendments forbid the government from depriving anyone of liberty without due process.

You should really read more judicial opinions. There are a lot of courts that have grown increasingly skeptical of police testimony.