O'Malley publishes most progressive and specific criminal justice reform plan ever

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7. I am fairly sure Baltimore was in a REALLY bad place before O'MAlley and I am

also fairly sure that there were two mayors after he left office. There is plenty blame to go around.

One thing I have read time and time again is that people elected him because they wanted safer streets.

To put Freddie Grays death solely on the feet of Martin O'MAlley is simplistic. It requires a much deeper discussion of everything that has happened in Baltimore and other industrial cities. The Violent Crime and Enforcement bill signed into law by President at the time can also be debated as leading up to so many of the bad policing policies in cities. One could argue, and I am sure it isn;t going to be very popular that it was the COPS portion of that law that lead to the broken windows policies that many mayors of many cities took.

O'Malley worked to change that. Systemic debacles Killed Freddie Gray. Trying to pin his death (in 2015) on a mayor who left that office in 1999 is really disingenuous. Having a substantial discussion would be more honest.

And he did try an awful lot of things outlined above as Mayor and took it even further as governor.