Mayor Brandon Scott will nominate Richard Worley, the deputy commissioner for operations, as interim commissioner and intends to nominate him to the position permanently.
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.
Six years after the Baltimore Police Department entered a federal consent decree, courtroom relationships have gotten closer, while community input remains sparse.
Wednesday’s discussion touched on unsolved homicides, staffing issues, youth gun violence, the Group Violence Reduction Strategy and a newly proposed arsonist registry.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.