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Fight Trump or Baltimore's violence? Question is at heart of Maryland attorney general's race

“Frosh says Wolf’s focus on criminal prosecutions misunderstands the role of the attorney general — which has to ask permission from local prosecutors before using a grand jury to investigate or file charges — and overlooks Frosh’s efforts to do more to help tackle violent crime. Frosh hired senior prosecutors from the Baltimore state’s attorney’s office as leaders on his team and started a violent crime unit, which he says has brought charges against more than 100 people. He says all this ‘by large measures, exceeded what most of my predecessors did’.“

Baltimore Sun

October 17, 2018