Department leaders point to signs of improvement, particularly around restoring the depleted vehicle fleet and the ongoing challenge of long wait times that medics routinely face.

For some, the decision to bring the hearing to a close reflected sensitivity and humanity. For others, it exposed a blind spot of local government.

The wrenching testimony from the mother of a victim halted the hearing, which had been focused on a breakdown in police-community relations.

“It hurts us more when kids are the ones perpetrating or falling victim, because we feel like we failed them,” said state Del. Luke Clippinger, a Baltimore Democrat who is leading a review of whether juvenile laws need adjusting.

City officials might have expected tough questions Thursday night at a community forum following up on an investigative report of the July 2 mass shooting in Brooklyn. Instead, some community members wanted to say thanks.

A 2017 federal consent decree required the Baltimore Police Department to install an advanced “early intervention system” that will track its officers.

What does Maryland have in common with Alabama? An attorney that specializes in defending prisons.

Officers need more training and better supervision on how to write tickets, acting police commissioner says.

A 100-page report by the Baltimore Police Department on its response reveals an agency disconnected from the community it serves.

The project received renewed attention this week when a top Police Department official described it as a “tactical village,” drawing comparisons to the so-called “Cop City” project in Atlanta.

Dontae Spivey was convicted of a 1998 homicide, but has always maintained his innocence.

Judge Bredar’s comments followed reporting from The Baltimore Banner on the long wait for detailed reports about how officers interact with citizens.

Critical staffing shortages are preventing police from spending enough time getting to know the neighborhoods they patrol — a roadblock to regaining community trust, report finds.

In the past, the city’s policing strategies hinged on sweeping searches of Black residents. Data that would show whether that has changed has yet to be released.

The state, which took over the Baltimore’s jails decades ago, has struggled to meet court deadlines to fix health care in its facilities.

The Baltimore Police Department is under scrutiny over how it seizes “evidence” from shooting victims.

The hearing, planned for Sept. 13 at 1 p.m., was announced by Councilman Mark Conway, who said he expected the Police Department will have by then completed its “after-action report.”

Less than six months after her son was killed in the 800 block of Gretna Court, Donna Bruce watched with horror on Instagram Live as the Brooklyn Day event she knew well devolved into a chaotic shooting exchange of gunfire on that same street, without a police officer in sight.

The nearly four-hour-long hearing included emotional testimony from attendees and calls for more resources in South Baltimore.

Under the newly drawn districts, police department officials have shifted certain areas of the city that had more violent crimes into larger districts that are historically even more violent, a Baltimore Banner data analysis found.