Write a one-page reflection responding to: What has impacted you the most about Chicana/o history? What will you remember about this history? Provide specific examples to strengthen your responses.
As illustrated above in Figure 2, the largest difference in percentage of formaled intake referrals between Baltimore City and the rest of Maryland was for misdemeanor referrals. In the rest of Maryland, only 35% of misdemeanor referrals at DJS Intake were authorized for a formal petition. In Baltimore City, however, that percentage was significantly higher, with 52% of intake cases formaled.
As depicted in Figure 3 below, the percent of formaled misdemeanor referrals in Baltimore City is consistently higher across all misdemeanor categories when compared to the rest of Maryland. The largest difference is for unspecified misdemeanors and drug misdemeanors. It is difficult to draw conclusions from the comparison for unspecified misdemeanor cases, as there was a very small number of these cases in Baltimore (18) as compared with a much larger number for the rest of state (352). However, the large difference in percent of formaled referrals in other misdemeanor categories raises significant questions about access to diversion across Maryland jurisdictions, particularly the large difference in formal processing rates for misdemeanor drug referrals. In Baltimore, 68% of misdemeanor drug cases were formaled, while only 27% of these cases were formaled in the rest on Maryland, a difference of 41%.
Misdemeanor referrals present one of the best opportunities for early diversion. The fact that a significantly larger percentage of misdemeanors referrals are formaled in Baltimore City is cause for concern and deeper investigation. It is possible that many of the formaled misdemeanor referrals
