Six years after the Baltimore Police Department entered a federal consent decree, courtroom relationships have gotten closer, while community input remains sparse.

Nearly every burger in Baltimore is a smashburger. One reporter is pushing back against the trend.

Cedric Elleby has been with the Baltimore Police Department since June 2019.

Wednesday’s discussion touched on unsolved homicides, staffing issues, youth gun violence, the Group Violence Reduction Strategy and a newly proposed arsonist registry.

Six out of every 100 prisoners in Maryland were sentenced when they were under 18 — and 80% of them are Black.

Baltimore’s jails remain deeply broken, especially when it comes to medical and mental health care.

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.

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.