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Mayor’s plan to expand anti-gun violence strategy gets boost as city seals deal with key partner
Tensions between the mayor’s public safety office and Roca had delayed a new agreement and cast a shadow over plans to expand the city’s promising anti-violence strategy.
Baltimore Police commissioner Michael Harrison speaks during a city announcement for plans tp expand the Group Violence Reduction Strategy from the west policing districts into one or more additional policing precinct by early next year.
15-year-old arrested in shooting that killed Baltimore boxer Ernest Hall, wounded others
Hall had been preparing for a junior featherweight bout scheduled for April 1 when he was killed on March 23.
Friends and family of boxer Ernie "Lightening Bug" Hall attend a candlelight vigil at his gym, Lightning Quick Fit in Mount Vernon.
Baltimore’s teen shooting surge strains mayor’s long-term approach to gun violence
Thirty-nine high school-age residents were shot and 11 died in the first three months of this year – the deadliest start to a year for Baltimore teens since at least 2015.
Messages of support and a photo of Izaiah Carter, a 16-year-old Patterson High School shot and killed in early March, can be seen on one of Forno Restaurant and Wine Bar’s sandwich boards. Carter had been an employee at the restaurant.
Three killed, one critically wounded in Northeast Baltimore quadruple shooting
Mayor Brandon Scott called the scene “one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in my time in elected office.”
Is Safe Streets working? Hopkins study finds significant impacts to gun violence, despite other challenges
Safe Streets outposts reduced nearby homicides and nonfatal shootings by an average of 16% to 23%, with larger reductions in homicides during the first four years of the longer-running sites.
A Safe Streets sticker on a lamp post outside of the Douglass Homes.
In state prisons and Baltimore jails, trans people choose between harassment or confinement
Trans prisoners in Maryland facilities can spend entire days locked in cells and without programming or other ways to occupy their time, an environment the United Nations compared to torture.
Illustration of two sets of prison bars and door to solitary cell overlapped by silhouette of trans woman with a ponytail.
Less than half of Maryland jails comply with opioid-addiction treatment law meant to save lives
The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.
Photo collage showing scribbled-out medication bottle and pills in man’s hands, with prison bars in background on left and text from House Bill 116 on right.
Local control advocates reject new compromise limiting Baltimore City Council authority over police department
A coalition of police reform advocated rejected a last-minute effort to shield some of the powers held by Baltimore’s police commissioner.
Baltimore City Police vehicles sit parked on Charles St. on June 4 at Baltimore Trans Pride 2022.
Nearly one in three people shot in 2023 were 18 or under as gun violence flares near schools
A spike in youth gunshot victims is worsening even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down.
There has been a rise in gunshot violence with youth in Baltimore.
City Council, activists push mayor to complete local takeover of police department this year
The need for additional state legislation means local control might not be completed until 2024.
A Baltimore Police car and crime scene tape remains on the scene after a vehicle exploded inside a five-story parking garage in Baltimore’s Fells Point neighborhood on 7/27/22.  Two people are being treated for injuries, fire officials said Wednesday afternoon.
Police charge 16-year-old with murder in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
The Jan. 4 shooting also wounded two 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old males.
Family and friends of 16-year-old Edmondson, Dennta Dorsey who was the student killed yesterday, and Attorney Thiur Vignarajah (left) during a press conference at the Edmondson Village, site of the shooting.
Internal emails detail pressure state police troopers faced to drive up traffic ticket numbers
Communications also raise questions about the agency’s contention that the “expectations” system doesn’t function as a quota.
Excerpts from a leaked email about a quota system at Maryland State Police.
Leaked docs: State police use quota-like system to reward arrests, issue new vehicles
“I just pulled the last 6 months of stats to help determine who is getting a new car,” an internal state police email read.
The Maryland State Police logo.
Another man died in Baltimore’s sprawling jail system. Did he get the care he needed?
Days after suffering a medical emergency, Deandre Whitehead reported that he had still not seen a doctor, according to his attorney.
Deandre Whitehead in 2021.
Woman arrested in connection to fatal shooting of 15-year-old NyKayla Strawder
The woman is charged with reckless endangerment, and two charges related to a minor gaining access to a firearm.
Photo of 15-year-old NyKayla Strawder.
Is the Baltimore Police Department de-escalating too much? Consent decree judge wants to know
The judge described it as a "very awkward, even ugly question."
6/29/22—A detail of the Baltimore Police Department crest seen on a lectern in Baltimore City Police Headquarters.
What caused a 33% drop in gun violence in West Baltimore last year? We analyzed it
A Banner analysis of a revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy in the Western District suggests remarkable impacts.
Photo collage showing silhouette of gun within the Western District map on the left side. On the right side, a mess of scribbles sits above a close-up of a young man’s eyes.
Nine charts that help explain last year’s sudden drop in shootings in West Baltimore
Collage showing Western District of Baltimore map cut-out, layered with scribbles.
Another death tied to Baltimore Central Booking as troubles mount at state-run jail
Family members of 37-year-old Chase Williams said he was found unresponsive somewhere in the facility on Tuesday, about two hours after he was booked into it.
Chase M. Williams, 37, pictured shortly after his release from prison in December, was found dead at the Baltimore Central Booking and Intake Center on January 10. His sister, Nya Williams, described the death as suspicious. (Photo courtesy of the Williams family).
He spent a decade on death row. Now John Huffington’s name is cleared, thanks to a pardon.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan pardoned Huffington, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1981 double murder of Diana Becker and Joe Hudson in Harford County.
John Huffington, left, and Ropes & Gray partner Chong S. Park speak at a news conference on Nov. 9, 2021.
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