The local Fox channel tonight reported that 1/3 of the arrests made in Baltimore City are not prosecuted due to lack of evidence. While this is clearly a one sided, possibly paid for, Q&A with a 41st District delegate, the data is good.
This City Paper short from September '05 gives a little more newsy discussion on it.
And if it's still difficult to believe, this article adressing Baltimore's highest States Attorney's (the person in charge of the people prosecuting criminals) feelings on the issue should prove interesting.
When Fox 45 puts the story up on their website I'll link to the list of things the city police department has decided to change about it's tactics, including handing out ACLU cards in neighborhoods where this is occuring so that communities know who to contact when they are picked up for no reason whatsoever.
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