Mosby tackles questions on policy changes in "Justice For Baltimore" Town hall

BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore City State’s Marilyn Mosby took part in a town hall Thursday.

Baltimore's top prosecutor took her message to the Western District for the first of nine meetings billed as "Justice for Baltimore."

It was a virtual Q and A for the public ask questions about the dramatic makeover in city prosecutions and her decision to no longer go after low level offenses from prostitution to drug possession.

"We want you to hear from the horse’s mouth what our policies are what they aren’t," said Mosby.

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"There’s a misconception that we’re not prosecuting drug dealers we absolutely are still prosecuting drug dealers," she said.

It's a policy change that’s been controversial in a high crime city where according to the Maryland Public Policy Institute one out of every 300 Baltimore residents has been killed during her 6 years, but in the meeting Mosby heard widespread approval for the changes she's instituted.

FOX45 News went to one Western District neighborhood, where many wouldn't be on that zoom call.

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Sandtown-Winchester, in the last 3 months per BPD crime data had 74 crimes, including 3 homicides and 25 aggravated assaults. The kind violent and victim crimes Mosby says are now the focus.

Here too, we found mostly support for Mosby's changes.

Lifelong resident Frances Muldrow has her own questions but believes Mosby is on the right track so long as she finds the right balance.

Sex work, and open carry violation, while they may be low level, she says still affects their quality of life.

"I want to see accountability I just don’t want people to have a free for all we have enough of that now but I agree that the police need to be tackling the heavy duty crime, work on murders," she said.