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Gotta tell you, when I read this column Fox News<\/a> the first time, I started looking for a Babylon Bee byline (more B-alliteration to go with Wednesday’s column.) Y’all better find a seat, make sure your heart meds are up to date, and smelling salts are handy.<\/p>\n Baltimore, that deathtrap at the top of Chesapeake Bay, one time per capita murder capital claimant, has seen their crime numbers drop like a fat trainee doing his first push-up. Why? Meet the Baltimore City State’s Attorney, the state prosecutor assigned to Baltimore, Ivan Bates.<\/p>\n The Democratic prosecutor is promising accountability after years of violent crime in the city, crediting a tougher stance on gun crimes and repeat offenders for a sharp drop in homicides and shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Unlike many Democrat prosecutors, he understands that disadvantaged and minority VICTIMS matter, too, and that lenient prosecution, cashless bail (“y’all promise to come back now, y’hear?”) only benefits the criminals, not the community.\u00a0 Color me gobsmacked.<\/p>\n “A number of the victims within the community were also minorities and African Americans, and they have a right to be safe and free in their house,” Bates said.<\/p>\n “We wanted to make sure that everybody, didn’t matter your race, didn’t matter where you’re from, everybody has a right to be safe, and it wasn’t a Democrat issue, it wasn’t a Republican issue, it was a people issue. At the end of the day, there were too many murders, too much violence, and we needed to make a change.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Violent repeat offenders? Five year MINIMUM sentence. The murder rate is down 22% since last year – think that is a coincidence?<\/p>\n “Hold violent repeat offenders accountable, especially with illegal handguns. We had too many murders, 300-plus murders for eight years straight. That’s a terrible number to have,” he said.<\/p>\n Data from the Baltimore Police Department shows 2,129 repeat violent offenders have been sent to prison under the new strategy \u2013 double the number under the previous administration.<\/p>\n At the same time, 64% of homicide cases have been closed, 44% of non-fatal shooting cases have been closed and non-fatal shootings have dropped by 19%.<\/p>\n Homicides fell 23% by the end of 2024 (201 vs. 261 in 2023) and non-fatal shootings dropped 34% (414 vs. 635). BPD also reported clearance rates above national averages in several categories.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Sounds like he paid attention when Richmond, VA operated Project Exile to target the baddies who preyed on the populace.<\/p>\n Man, a Democrat prosecutor who actually acts<\/em> like a prosecutor. Now that’s a novelty.<\/p>\n May even be able to go to Lexington Market again without the body armor.<\/p>\n And then we get to little Greta Thunberg. First when she was released by Israel, she didn’t allege any IDF brutality. Seems her memory has been sharpened by hearing all of the other folks who are complaining of their inhumane treatment in “captivity” and she now says she was brutalized, too, and brought pictures, too.<\/p>\n “The suffering of Palestinian prisoners is not a matter of opinion \u2014 it is a fact of systemic cruelty and dehumanization. Humanity cannot be selective. Justice cannot have borders.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n One of the three images she cites as proof is of an emaciated Evyatar David.<\/p>\n The slides were part of a collaboration post with Thunberg, Yasmin Acar, a member of the steering committee of the Freedom Flotilla Coalition; the Gaza Sumud Flotilla and two other accounts.\u00a0\u00a0Fox News II<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Just one tiny problem with her allegations… Mr. David is an Israeli<\/em> who was taken by Hamas at the music festival (two years ago Tuesday for those who missed the date). The photo is a still from a video in which Mr. David was forced to dig his own grave (thankfully unused, supposedly.)<\/p>\n The country that gave us Greta Garbo, Britt Ekland, and Anita Ekberg gives us – this? And we thought WE had gone downhill…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/greta-300x175.jpg\")
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