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Police Commissioner Michael Harrison, speaks to the city's strategy for teen violence this summer, including enforcement of the youth curfew, at a press conference this afternoon on May 24, 2023.
Here’s how Baltimore leaders are reacting to Police Commissioner Michael Harrison’s departure
“He took on a very, very challenging job, and he is a true man of honor and integrity,” Gov. Wes Moore said Thursday.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison to step down, Richard Worley, Deputy Commissioner at Baltimore Police Department.
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison stepping down
Mayor Brandon Scott will nominate Richard Worley, the deputy commissioner for operations, as interim commissioner and intends to nominate him to the position permanently.
File photo showing a Baltimore Police detective’s service pistol and handcuffs secured on his belt.
Amid citation campaign, new questions emerge on how Baltimore will police lesser offenses
Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison gave more details about how officers will utilize the ability to cite, or even arrest, people for low-level offenses, during the police budget hearing on Tuesday night.
Photo college showing head shot of man in suit taped on left side, close up photo of woman taped on right side, with image of Baltimore Police embroidered patch in between them in background.
The cozy relationships and shadowy disclosures behind Baltimore’s $8M police consent decree
Six years after the Baltimore Police Department entered a federal consent decree, courtroom relationships have gotten closer, while community input remains sparse.
The $21 dollar "fancy" Penny Black Burger at the old-fashioned Fells Point tavern ranks atop my list of best non-smash burgers in Baltimore.
What are the best non-smashed burgers in Baltimore? I’m on a mission to find out
Nearly every burger in Baltimore is a smashburger. One reporter is pushing back against the trend.
Police respond to reports of a shooting at the corner of S Catherine St. & Frederick Ave. on May 11, 2023.
Police identify detective who shot and wounded 17-year-old during foot pursuit
Cedric Elleby has been with the Baltimore Police Department since June 2019.
Photo collage showing map of Baltimore City with Western District cut out, Baltimore police badge, and man with another man’s hand on his shoulder.
Unsolved homicides, cops in cars: Four takeaways from latest City Council crime meeting
Wednesday’s discussion touched on unsolved homicides, staffing issues, youth gun violence, the Group Violence Reduction Strategy and a newly proposed arsonist registry.
A graphic from the Human Rights for Kids report shows the four states with the highest rates of prisoners convicted as children, including Wisconsin, Maryland, South Carolina and Louisiana.
Maryland ranks fourth for rate of prisoners convicted as children
Six out of every 100 prisoners in Maryland were sentenced when they were under 18 — and 80% of them are Black.
Photo of sphygmomanometer broken up by vertical bars on a dirty yellow background.
Crises in confinement, bugs in medical records: Health care in Baltimore jails is still broken
Baltimore’s jails remain deeply broken, especially when it comes to medical and mental health care.
Satellite imagery of the Western Correction Institution in Cumberland. Lester DeShazor alleged that correctional officers at the prison targeted him for retaliation.
Fewer activities, more assaults: Maryland prisons are short 3,400 officers, union warns
The report is the first study on Maryland Department of Public Safety and Correctional Services staffing shortages that had the full collaboration of the union representing correctional officers.
Chelsea Gilliam, a transgender woman who was held pre-trial at two Maryland correctional facilities for six months and placed in male dormitories, speaks at a press conference announcing a lawsuit against the department of public safety and correctional services on April 19, 2023.
First, sexual assault; then, confinement: Trans woman details alleged Baltimore jail abuses in lawsuit
The allegations echo the stories of those who testified before Maryland lawmakers in a push to change policies around how transgender people are treated in Maryland’s prisons and Baltimore jails.
Satellite imagery of the Western Correction Institution in Cumberland. Lester DeShazor alleged that correctional officers at the prison targeted him for retaliation.
After suing Maryland prison guards, he requested a transfer. He was sprayed and beaten instead
Lester DeShazor said he was doused with so much pepper spray that it looked like “whipped cream” on his face.
WASHINGTON, DC - OCTOBER 12: Sheriff Chuck Jenkins (L), of Frederick County, MD., and Sheriff Graham Atkinson (R), of Surry County, NC., participate in a discussion on immigration October 12, 2011 in Washington, DC. The Center for Immigration Studies and the House Immigration Reform Caucus hosted the discussion with law enforcement agencies from local municipalities dealing with crime problems that are direct result from failure to control the border, and from lax enforcement of immigration laws.
After federal indictment, Frederick County sheriff has no plans to step down
Sheriff Chuck Jenkins has gained notoriety for casting himself as part of the “constitutional sheriff” movement that resisted federal authority on COVID-19, election results, and gun policy.
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.
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.
Friends and family of boxer Ernie "Lightening Bug" Hall attend a candlelight vigil at his gym, Lightning Quick Fit in Mount Vernon.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
A Safe Streets sticker on a lamp post outside of the Douglass Homes.
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.
Illustration of two sets of prison bars and door to solitary cell overlapped by silhouette of trans woman with a ponytail.
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.
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.
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.
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