The old adage “don’t do the crime if you can’t do the time” is lost on the city of Baltimore.

According to analysis by the Baltimore Sun, in cases against people caught in possession of a firearm illegally, sentences are either adjudicated or charges are dropped before defendants even go to trial.

In other words, criminals know they can do the crime without doing time.

Of the 100 illegal-gun cases, compiled with defendants arrested between November and March, the Sun found approximately one-quarter of the cases were dropped, a rate State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby calls ‘typical’.