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Baltimore City needs to support the state’s attorney’s office

The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office is thinly structured and details much of its  limited resources  to  help the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and the Baltimore Police Department. This needs to slow considerably, and Bates, if given the monetary resources by the city, should be able to quickly attract skilled and seasoned professionals and retain existing staff, to prosecute the criminal docket and staff programs designed to intervene before violence occurs. This can all happen without extensive help from the U.S. attorney’s office.  We do not expect that all help from that office will be withdrawn, and we still expect there will be  federal prosecutions for 922(g) violations, but it is critical to the efficient functioning of the U.S. attorney’s office, and the independence of the city state’s attorney’s office, that Bates be given the resources he says he  needs and be allowed to create his office in the image for which the taxpayers of this city elected him. 

Officials gather at Morgan to talk Public Safety

Jason Johnson, associate professor in multimedia journalism, asked questions that weighed heavily on Morgan’s faculty and students‘ minds to Scott, Governor Wes Moore, Attorney General Anthony Brown, and City of Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates. 

Baltimore man sentenced to life in prison for two 2021 murders

"This defendant is a repeat violent offender who took two lives in two days with clearly no regard for humanity or the law," Baltimore City State's Attorney Ivan Bates said. "It is apparent to me that he should never be on the streets of our city again. My heart goes out to the families and community members impacted by these devastating acts of violence."

SA Bates pushes for tougher gun offense sentences while concerns remain in Annapolis

On day one in office, Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates said his legislative push included evening the sentencing maximums for misdemeanor gun offenses. Bates said if a defendant is between 18 and 20 years of age, the maximum sentence was five years, but for offenders over the age of 21, he said the max penalty was three years.