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.

Lester DeShazor said he was doused with so much pepper spray that it looked like “whipped cream” on his face.

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.

Hall had been preparing for a junior featherweight bout scheduled for April 1 when he was killed on March 23.

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.

Mayor Brandon Scott called the scene “one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in my time in elected office.”

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.

The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.

A coalition of police reform advocated rejected a last-minute effort to shield some of the powers held by Baltimore’s police commissioner.

A spike in youth gunshot victims is worsening even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down.

The need for additional state legislation means local control might not be completed until 2024.

The Jan. 4 shooting also wounded two 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old males.

Communications also raise questions about the agency’s contention that the “expectations” system doesn’t function as a quota.

“I just pulled the last 6 months of stats to help determine who is getting a new car,” an internal state police email read.

Days after suffering a medical emergency, Deandre Whitehead reported that he had still not seen a doctor, according to his attorney.

The woman is charged with reckless endangerment, and two charges related to a minor gaining access to a firearm.

The judge described it as a "very awkward, even ugly question."

A Banner analysis of a revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy in the Western District suggests remarkable impacts.