Baltimore residents weary of years of escalating violent crime and record homicide rates got some welcome news earlier this summer when Marilyn Mosby, the city s far-left state s attorney, was defeated in the Democrat primary by Ivan Bates, a defense attorney, who, while decidedly not a conservative, has pledged to reverse some of Mosby s more controversial policies. As Mosby finishes out her final months in office and faces federal charges for fraud and perjury her tenure provides a lesson in how the left-wing movement to reimagine policing and the criminal justice system has destroyed many once-great American cities.

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