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Jessamy Is Shamed In A Report- How It Relates To Pigtown Crime
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Meanwhile the Baltimore Sun came out with a must read article on Monday that reveals that Patricia Jessamy does not want a study of disparities between Baltimore and suburban jury outcomes to be published as it currently reads. Below is a quote from the Sun that describes information in the report:
"Conviction rates also vary between the city to the counties depending on the charges. In the city, 57 percent of drug defendants and 57 of defendants charged with personal offenses (such as murder, assault or robbery) were convicted. Those numbers in the counties were 95 percent and 69 percent, respectively.
After tabulating that data, Flower developed a probability formula to predict the likelihood of a conviction. The "starkest difference," she wrote, was that jurors in nearby counties are 30 times more likely than their city counterparts to convict a defendant of the most serious charge against him. The probability of a conviction on the top count is 2 percent in the city and 63 percent in the counties, the report says."
Ouch!
So with those statistics in mind let us return to Pigtown. There are a lot of criminals floating around Pigtown who are drug addicts who need to commit all sorts of crimes to fuel their habits. There are individuals who come to Pigtown to participate in the illicit activities that help fuel the drug trade. The community has come up with a list of individuals who have committed crime after crime but have served little to no time and continue to commit more crimes that seem to be getting worse. They want the State's Attorney's office to work with them to finally put some of these people away for long periods of time so word gets out that you will be punished in Pigtown. For now the Pigtown criminals know that they have a great shot at getting no punishment from a Baltimore Jury (as the report shows). They also know that the State's Attorney's office is not being very proactive in shutting them down for a long period of time. Basically criminals can get away with most anything in Pigtown and they know it. The community wants to draw a line in the sand now and finally put and end to this virtual anarchy.
Later this month there is going to be an emergency crime summit in Pigtown. I will try to be there at some point and describe what happens. The community wants to work with the state's attorney and the police. The community is proactively going out of its way to work with the officials who are supposed to be serving them. Will the officials step up and finally put a dent in the revolving door never ending cycle of Pigtown crime?
UPDATE: Jean Marbella wrote a great piece in the Sun about the study.
Topics: Patricia Jessamy , pigtown
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