understanding that baltimore has bucked national trends. in the history of our city when all the other cities were seeing reductions baltimore was seeing increases. right? in this past year we saw a reduction but we saw a reduction that was almost twice that of the national numbers, having a 20% reduction in our homicides in baltimore. so your strategy specifically, as you described it, targets some of the most violent offenders. other big city mayors such as philadelphia s new mayor sheryl parker, she s declared a blanket public safety emergency with an emphasis on shutting down all open air drug markets. why do you think your approach is better? well, i don t disagree with my sister mayor s approach. i just think our approach is the one that s been proven to work in our city. right? and when you think about that, we re going after the most violent groups, and they re operating drug shops. that s something we re going to
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