BALTIMORE (WBFF) – Gov. Larry Hogan is pledging $45 million to fighting crime in Baltimore and Maryland.
 

That money will go directly toward things like victim services, the Baltimore Police Department's Warrant Apprehension Task Force and having state police collaborate more with BPD.
 

Policy and law enforcement experts say this is a start, but both believe the state needs to go even further as violent crime in Baltimore city is outpacing last year.
 

As part of the new funding, $6.5 million will go toward BPD's Warrant Apprehension Task Force.
 

If we can pick them up for some thing else, we can take them off the streets before they commit another murder," said Sean Kennedy with the Maryland Public Policy Institute. "In this case, picking up warrants that stand out gives us an opportunity to prevent murders in the city of Baltimore.

Kennedy thinks Hogan should call in the national guard.
 

"I don’t think 18-year-old kids with M16s should be patrolling the streets of Baltimore, but we have another means by which to do this," said Kennedy. "That’s the military police battalions and brigades that exist in the Maryland National Guard. They can be deployed to the streets of Baltimore and work with the HIT teams, is what they’re called, High Impact Teams. (They can) go out and help the Warrant Apprehension Task Force, help the investigations team."
 

"They’ve been deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan, all over the world. They were there during the Capitol riot for post security. They are able. They are veterans. They know what they’re doing. They are often police officers in other jurisdictions."
 

Former FBI agent Dr. Tyrone Powers says policing and picking up criminals is only half the battle.
 

You have to have a good, intimate relationship and training between prosecutors and police officers," said Powers. "When you in fact arrest people, even if you are the warrant unit, if you go out and arrest people, they still have to be convicted in a court of law because that is the only thing that is going to keep them off the streets.

Hogan includes $3.5 million to hire ten new federal prosecutors in the city.
 

Powers says once convictions are made, criminals need to serve time elsewhere.
 

"After due process they can no longer be in this particular area. In other words we have to have a relationship through prison so they can be shipped to, I don’t know Butte, Montana, or somewhere," said Powers. "Because even behind bars there are people behind bars who can still participate in the violence on the streets of Baltimore."

He thinks that would send a message loud and clear.
 

"They will understand that justice is swift. That it is certain. And then we publicize that because criminals do know and they do respond to consequences if they can see them on a daily basis."