Department leadership, which was just upended following a scathing report on a fatal fire on South Stricker Street in January, contend they are doing everything they can to address the issues.
A year after state lawmakers gave the Maryland attorney general greater investigatory authority in police-involved deaths, local prosecutors have so far declined to charge any officers.
"In Baltimore City, things are so deeply rooted, that itâs not about a crime problem, itâs not about a violence problem â itâs always been a pain problem.'
The complaint also found that Black decedents were found to be homicide victims 8% of the time, compared to white decedents being found to be homicide victims 21% of the time.
Gordon Staron Jr. is charged in the killings of 63-year-old Keith Bell at an East Baltimore bus stop and Javarick Gantt, 34, who was found âunresponsiveâ at the jail on Oct. 9.
The Baltimore Police Department identified the officer who shot and killed Tyree Moorehead as Zachary Rutherford, who has been with the department since March of this year.
The shot was intended for someone in a vehicle in the parking lot of a liquor store, but instead hit a young person standing outside, Police Commissioner Michael Harrison said.
As footage of his death at the hands of the Baltimore Police Department circulates on social media, questions are intensifying about the final moments before Tyree Moorehead was shot.
As a cashier at the cut-rate liquor store for two decades, Bell knew everybody â relationships he later expanded by doing odd jobs and favors for people in the community, sometimes for just a few dollars.
A report by attorneys for the ACLU suing the state over jail conditions found major issues at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center, including how the facility housed people with disabilities, just weeks before Javarick Gantt was murdered there.
An exchange between Councilman Mark Conway and Shantay Jackson, director of the Mayorâs Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, escalated, and the hearing was recessed.