I proudly cast my vote for Gregg Bernstein this morning. We really need to keep criminals in prison and not let them out on the streets. My neighbor, Stephen Pitcairn was murdered because of Jessamy's failure to get tough on crime.

Managed to vote before work. I voted for Jessamy. Why? Baltimore City hasn't had enough yet -- they think they have, they haven't. Bernstein will increase conviction rates? Using what? Convictions based on the same shoddy police work? Get real. Get ready for an epidemic of police corruption under Bernstein.

@Bmorekaos

Using what? Using eyewitnesses that all other major jurisductions use to secure ocnvictions. Jessary rolls over and lets too many criminals go wtih sound strong evidence that would convict.

what do you base your claim of "epidemic of police corruption" on? Nothing??!!

Sounds like you just want to keep a failure in office

Jessamy needs to go, as does that gibbering imp of hers Margaret Burns. Burns is simply a vile, heartless and terrible person, but that's preferable to Jessamy's incompetence. Consider Pat Croyder's observations:

1. Jessamy exhibits a personal lack of trial skill and judgment. A prosecutor who thinks she has to subject the victim of a robbery to cross-examination at a preliminary hearing, even when she has a videotape of the robbery, is clueless. A prosecutor who pursues an announced policy of not prosecuting single witness cases, instead of evaluating each case individually, is likewise clueless. Not to mention dangerous to public safety.

2. Jessamy rejects accountability. In her own words: "I don't do conviction rates..." "I don't accept blame." She cannot even say what she could do better. All of us can do better, but not Jessamy.

3. Jessamy ignored her own, state-funded program to focus attention on repeat violent offenders, the War Room. She can't tell us what happened to the cases of those offenders. She contends that to do so would be "smoke and mirrors."

4. Jessamy fights with the police through her spokesperson, Margaret T. Burns. Burns takes pathological delight in torturing the police by tossing all blame their way. Jessamy expressed surprise, which stuck me as genuine, that Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld supports Bernstein. Another sign of how clueless and insulated Jessamy is from what happens in her office.

5. If Jessamy is re-elected, the blame game and tension will become even more unbearable, as Burns will exact revenge. She loves that stuff, I've seen it first hand. And maybe the best police commissioner we've had in a while will retire to find a less thankless job.

Jessamy pretends that her conflicts with the police are about protecting citizens from police. Ironically, if she worked with the police she could be much more effective at reigning in bad practices than she is now. Ultimately, however, the State's Attorney has no power to protect citizens from police, other than to prosecute bad cops (something Jessamy can boast little success at doing.) Her conflicts are really about excusing her own failings.

6. Jessamy raised images of the pre-civil rights 1950s, essentially asking black voters to vote for her because she is black. (And we, black and white, don't need any commentators or professors to interpret for us what she was doing. It was clear.)

Jessamy and the even more overt Frank Conaway ("They are trying to steal a seat from us") are attempting to inject fear that black voters would lose all power if a white person comes to office. The power isn't in the office, it's in the vote. City residents, who are predominately African American, voted in white O'Malley for mayor, then black Dixon and Rawlings-Blake. Their power didn't go anywhere. And if Bernstein fails them, they can kick him out.

Candidates like Jessamy and Conaway are phonies. It isn't about racial pride. It's about keeping their own butts in office. Jessamy's act is old and undistinguished, and the most she can offer now is racial fear. If her record supported her re-election, she wouldn't even have needed to go there.

For all these reasons, its time for change. It's time for Gregg Bernstein.

I think any normal citizen that claims to know who's at fault in the failure to control crime in Baltimore is probably not much of a critical thinker. There honestly is not enough information to be able to assess who's at fault here. I don't know whether it's a systemic problem with both the police and states attorneys partly to blame, or if it's just one of them.

Anyway, I voted for Bernstein this morning, partly because of the way Jessamy handled herself in the debates. She didn't back up her allegations with facts, repeatedly called Bernstein a liar and just generally made a very poor showing.

The other reason I voted for Bernstein is that clearly something is not working with the Baltimore criminal justice system. I don't know if it's Jessamy's fault or not, but I think it's important to make some changes and see if there's an improvement.

i am shut out because i am registered green. i will very interested to see who prevailed in the SA contest. my unbiased opinion is Let-me-stay Jessamy MUST GO.
i hope a majority feel the same way, and cannot understand why they would not.
that opinion should not be mangled into
"Bernstein is the answer to all life's problems"; it should be honestly read as "Jessamy is a major, if not the major problem".
i had a chat with someone over the weekend, who actually referenced the "police state" that would materialize under a Bernstein-run office. SMHS {shaking my head sighing}. What about the "thug state" the citizens of this city are living under now?
De-criminalize non-violent drug addiction NOW.
Lock up the violent predators NOW.
Re-civilize this town NOW.
i realize political will is required. and i realize also the willingness to really go after the violent thugs is just not there.
A out-growth, I suppose, of all the injustice she witnessed growing up.
Time for Baltimore to grow up.

Give it a rest. The SA office doesn't control society. It's not going to be better under the White Knight, ok? There are fundamental issues about society that are driving this place into the sewer: work ethic, family & marriage, education, sanctity of life. If each one would look inside, see what a vile, ignorant, selfish jerk you are!! The SA office doesn't control that. Jessamy isn't the problem, get it?

I just voted in West Baltimore and Pat Jesamy was there to shake the hands of the 3 people (two were from my family) on hand. She pulled up in a huge Black Denali with tinted windows and driven by what looked to be her bodyguard. I sure hope that was he personal vehicle she was using to campaign. It matters not that she was there as we all voted for Bernstein.

Turnout is SLOW where I was working

Voted for Bartenfelder. The vile campaign literature from the Kamenetz camp was a total turnoff. Full of lies and half-truths about his opponent and nothing about what he wanted to do if elected.