Over the past 2 years Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates says his office has been able to increase the number of people it put behind bars, which he says brings down violent crimes in the city.
“So when you’re looking at holding almost a thousand more people accountable, that’s one of the ways in which we feel we have been able to work with all of our partners to make such a quick dramatic change in terms of having the violent crime drop in terms of some of the homicide rates drop,” says Ivan Bates.
So far in his term, Bates has convicted 2,129 people for violent crimes…