In 2022, I wrote a rundown of the worst prosecutors in America. Three years later, it’s time to check in—where are they now, and how have public views shifted on them and the George Soros–backed approach of progressive prosecution?
First on the list is Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby. Elected in 2014, Mosby, I noted, “was one of the first prosecutors to campaign on a platform of de-prosecution, decarceration, and denouncing the police—indeed, the entire criminal-justice system—as racist.” In her first year in office, homicides in Baltimore surged past 300. They never fell below that level during her eight-year tenure.
Where is Mosby? She was defeated in a 2022 Democratic primary election by Ivan Bates, who ran a campaign based on returning law-and-order to Baltimore. Bates delivered on his promise, crediting a surge in criminal convictions. Violent crime rates have fallen, with homicides dropping to 201 in 2024. Adding criminal insult to electoral injury, federal prosecutors convicted Mosby in 2024 of perjury and filing a false mortgage application. The onetime friend to felons found herself joining their ranks…