“As we have known for some time, a small number of people in Baltimore are responsible for a disproportionately large share of the violent crime,” Tuggle wrote in an op-ed published this week in The Baltimore Sun. “In many cases, my officers know exactly who those people are and arrest them. After they are convicted, we rely on judges to do their part to keep those violent criminals where they belong — in prison.” But Tuggle said, often “it just isn’t happening.”