WASHINGTON 鈥� Attorney General Jeff Sessions will be positioned in different cities, in an effort to help beat back an increase in violent crime, and Maryland will get three of them.
聽that the U.S. attorney’s office in Maryland will receive three additional prosecutors.
鈥淭hrough a reallocation of resources, we will be enlisting and deploying 40 additional violent crime prosecutors across the United States,鈥� Sessions announced Friday.
Sessions said attorneys are headed to 鈥渉otbeds such as Central Islip, New York, where we will have two new federal prosecutors focusing solely on violent crime and MS-13.”
Oakland, California; Toledo, Ohio; Memphis, Tennessee; Milwaukee, St. Louis and Las Vegas are among other cities that will receive more federal prosecutors.
“Through these efforts, we now have 40 slots, but this is just the beginning of our push to increase the tooth-to-tail ratio at this department to drive down violent crime. We plan to push out an additional 260 AUSAs in the months to come,” Sessions鈥� prepared remarks stated.
that Sessions mentioned Baltimore鈥檚 homicide rate just days earlier during a news conference there.
, the city’s murders spiked above 300 in 2015 鈥� and haven’t slipped below that mark since.
Sessions said the new Assistant U.S. Attorneys can help reduce crime.
Their role in crushing organized criminal enterprises involves supervision of 鈥渕ultiple investigations.鈥� A result can be the simultaneous dismantling of several organized crime operations. 鈥淭hat means fewer violent criminals on the streets and more concentration of resources on the bad actors who are left. That is how you reduce crime,鈥� .
