“When it comes to public safety, progress can and should be measured. The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard provides a look at the numbers that inform our data-driven efforts in ways that directly address Baltimore’s latest public safety trends,” Scott said.
Police then responded a short time later to two walk-in shooting victims at a nearby hospital, where they found a 16-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man shot. Both were treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
Charging documents allege Davis drove his Lamborghini through a red light at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Washington Boulevards, striking a Toyota.
The House Judiciary Committee took testimony from Bates, and several other people in support of the plan that would raise the maximum penalty from three years to five years for people convicted of illegal gun possession, or transport, across the board.
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 We do not expect that all help from that office will be withdrawn, and we still expect there will be federal prosecutions for 922(g) violations, but it is critical to the efficient functioning of the U.S. attorney’s office,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.
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 State's Attorney Ivan Bates spoke exclusively with FOX45's Mikenzie Frost about his first 30 days in office.
Bates graduated from William & Mary Law School in 1995 and began a legal career that has, so far, spanned more than 25 years and culminated with his swearing-in as Baltimore State’s Attorney.
“I look forward to supporting the state’s attorney. I told his staff earlier today that if they need me to come testify, I’ll be there to work with them, absolutely,” Scott said.
