Kurt Schmoke

Jet, Nov 15, 2004 by Simeon Booker

The Black elected official who dared to challenge the federal drug policy of sending all victims to prison, former Baltimore Mayor, Kurt Schmoke, is back at it again. Now the dean of Howard University Law School, he has joined a new group seeking to overturn the policy and send most of the victims to clinics....

The U.S. city with the highest homicide rate, ironically, is Washington, D.C., the nation's much-respected capital. The city's 563,384 residents compiled a rate of 44.2 killings per 100,000 persons. Nearby Baltimore had the second-highest homicide rate.

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