Self fulfilling prophecies are a dime a dozen. The worst are the kind that are used to reach an end. Such as this.
Baltimore’s State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby has given a whole new and expected meaning to the only abuse of office in American law that is legal.
Prosecutorial Discretion, written extensively in Prosecutorial Blind Eye, Prosecutorial Dereliction, Prosecutorial Misconduct Epidemic Bears Rotten Fruit, The Epidemic of Rogue Prosecutors IS NOT a new thing! , and The Justice Department Needs A Kick In The Ass: is specifically intended for each case, each charge, one at a time.
Today’s new Soros spawned prosecutors don’t see it that way. Whole categories of crimes have been preemptively excused by these criminal prosecutors.
Now, proving how stupid Democrats think Americans are, they actually claim that since less people have been arrested, those crimes are lower in frequency. Problem is: nobody is being arrested for a whole slew of ‘starter’ crimes.
“State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby announced that the city would no longer prosecute drug possession, prostitution, trespassing, and other minor charges, to keep people out of jail and limit the spread of the deadly virus.” [1]
…”on Friday, Mosby made her temporary steps permanent. She announced that Baltimore City will continue to decline prosecution of all drug possession, prostitution, minor traffic and misdemeanor cases, and will partner with a local behavioral health service to aggressively reach out to drug users, sex workers, and people in psychiatric crisis to direct them into treatment rather than the back of a patrol car.
‘A year ago, we underwent an experiment in Baltimore,’ Mosby said in an interview, describing steps she took after consulting with public health and state officials to reduce the public’s exposure to the coronavirus, including not prosecuting nonviolent offenses. “What we learned in that year, and it’s so incredibly exciting, is there’s no public safety value in prosecuting these low-level offenses. These low-level offenses were being, and have been, discriminately enforced against Black and brown people. Prosecutors have to recognize their power to change the criminal justice system.
‘The era of ‘tough on crime’ prosecutors is over in Baltimore,’ Mosby said. ‘We have to rebuild the community’s trust in the criminal justice system and that’s what we will do, so we can focus on violent crime.” She said the policy shift will enable more prosecutors to be assigned to homicides and other major cases instead of working in misdemeanor court.’ [1]
But wait:
“Prosecutorial discretion is when a prosecutor has the power to decide whether or not to charge a person for a crime, and which criminal charges to file. This is a rather broad power that also gives prosecutors the authority to enter into plea bargains with a defendant, which can result in the defendant pleading guilty to a lesser charge or receiving a lesser sentence for pleading guilty to the original charge. An example of this is a police officer letting you go with a warning when they could have charged you with speeding.” [2
The ‘power’ is applied to AFTER a crime is committed, ONLY applicable to the specific ‘crime’ already committed.
As with every other aspect of American jurisprudence Democrats don’t see it that way. They are using this power to excuse entire collections of crimes before they are committed.
If you have ever been in law enforcement you know it is very rare that a low level crime is a stand alone issue. A person committing what Mosby has called “low-level offenses” is normally charged with such because cast in stone, beyond a reasonable doubt evidence cannot be acquired to convict the person on the much greater, more serious infraction for which they were arrested to begin with.
So Mosby’s excusing ‘low level crimes’ is the exact same thing as declaring the legislature and the people’s passing of those laws is not relevant.
THAT IS TEXTBOOK SEDITION! And a direct violation of the separation of powers.
But not the sedition past congresses have granted into code. 18 U.S. Code § 2384 – Seditious conspiracy reads “If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.” The optimum word being ‘force’.
BUT… force does not require physical.
‘Force'[3] means: “power, violence, or pressure directed against a person or thing. Force is a compulsion by physical means or by legal requirement.”
The power and pressure of an elected official is used to compel a legal requirement to stop a law from existing, even though it does. The attack is on the citizens.
That means a legal requirement that delegates the legislature to the trash heap through wholesale refusal to enforce existing laws IS SEDITION.
The only problem that remains is the same one that permitted an election to be stolen: there is nobody, no agency, no policy, no effort made by any government to uphold the Constitution of the United States without a person with ‘standing’ to bring that issue before a court: LONG after the damage has been done. Stopping a Constitution crime is simply NOT of interest to the Department of Justice.
Now, with Merrick Garland (gasp!) as Attorney General this will be applied all across the country to a long series of laws that will simply go un-enforced.
Why? It certainly isn’t to be nice to the criminals. “Prosecutors have to recognize their power to change the criminal justice system.” That is a legislative function.
Democrats are working to collapse this country from within.
It is working and there is not one politician with the balls to stop it.
[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/after-crime-plummeted-in-2020-baltimore-will-stop-drug-prostitution-prosecutions/ar-BB1f0A5C
[2] https://www.findlaw.com/criminal/criminal-procedure/what-is-prosecutorial-discretion-.html
[3] https://definitions.uslegal.com/f/force/