There are a lot of talking heads telling us that the head of the Maryland Department of Juvenile Services needs to quit or to have Gov. Wes Moore fire him. I disagree with that approach. It solves nothing in my opinion (“Sack Schiraldi? That’s not the answer to juvenile crime (or even the right question),” Oct. 25).
Recently, we have heard that DJS has not been honest with the numbers or success of ankle monitors. Surprise! They have told us that the goal was to rehabilitate these teen criminals. Most would agree that that should be the goal. But keeping them in homes where parents either have failed to raise them with a moral rule or are so dysfunctional that they have no moral code to share is not the path to save these kids.
Allowing these children to be free to run the streets of Baltimore where they can get $50 guns, drugs and the advice of the drug gangs is not the road to leave crime behind. It is obvious that the goal of DJS is to keep these criminals out of jail. But their alternative is to keep them on the streets and law-abiding citizens locked inside their homes. That is their idea of what is just!
Everyone seems to think that this will all change if the agency’s head is removed. Wrong! Gov. Moore agrees with all the woke ideas of his good friend, Vincent Schiraldi. He would just replace him with another who wants criminals on the streets. The governor needs to be removed also!
— Rev. Michael T. Buttner, Bel Air
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