âIt hurts us more when kids are the ones perpetrating or falling victim, because we feel like we failed them,â 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 âearly intervention systemâ that will track its officers.
The project received renewed attention this week when a top Police Department official described it as a âtactical village,â drawing comparisons to the so-called âCop Cityâ project in Atlanta.
Judge Bredarâs 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 â a roadblock to regaining community trust, report finds.
In the past, the cityâs policing strategies hinged on sweeping searches of Black residents. Data that would show whether that has changed has yet to be released.
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 âafter-action report.â
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.
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.
Four Safe Streets workers from Baltimoreâs leading violence intervention program monitored the block party Saturday at Brooklyn Homes, but clocked out and left about an hour before gunfire erupted.
The Baltimore Police Department is asking for community feedback on a policy that would guide its use of small unmanned aircrafts, or drones, for aerial surveillance.
Radio communications from the Southern District indicated that police were well aware of a massive crowd nearing 1,000 people gathered at Brooklyn Homes.