BALTIMORE (WBFF) - Baltimore City’s struggle to stem rising violence is one Baltimore County is also experiencing.
 

Just this week a 31 year old father was shot and killed on Monday in Rosedale.
 

Two children found dead on Wednesday in Essex.
 

39 people have been killed in the county this year.
 

Seven months into 2021, Baltimore County has surpassed last year's total number of murders.
 

In 2020, 33 people were killed.
 

FOX45 asked the department what they attribute the increase to and what’s being done.
 

A spokesperson for Baltimore County police told us:
 

"This is a national conversation departments across the country are currently having; many of these cases have a behavioral health component tied to them. We are seeing poor impulse control as well a propensity to address minor issues with a handgun."
 

"Our clearance rate shows we are arresting those responsible for committing these crimes and working closely with the Baltimore County State’s Attorney’s Office to convict these individuals."
 

FOX45 News also reached out to the County Executive's Office. A spokesperson wrote,
 

“Every resident deserves to feel safe and Baltimore County constantly examines our violence prevention strategies to ensure our communities remain safe. Moving forward we will continue to innovate and do whatever is necessary to keep Baltimore County a safe place to live, work, and raise a family.”
 

Sean Kennedy with the Maryland Public Policy Institute points to problems with the judicial system.
 

"The court system is failing to intervene with people who are dangerous," he says. "There's no accountability in Maryland right now.
 

He believes repeat offenders remain a driving factor in Maryland’s violence, but says the state's court system isn’t holding them accountable.
 

"Are there patterns in the judiciary where certain judges are making terrible decisions and they’re having terrible consequences, therefore there needs to be accountability? We just don’t know. Governor Hogan proposed judicial transparency where sentencing data and the judges name would be attached to outcomes, but the democrats in Annapolis blocked that."
 

The judicial transparency act of 2020 would have required judge’s names and sentences be published for crimes along with an explanation for their decisions .
 

The bill died in committee last session.
 

"At some point the buck stops somewhere and it stops with the state’s attorney's offices and the judges," Kennedy says. "Because it's their job to take these cases from charges at the police level to incarceration and they’re failing to do that."