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Is Baltimore seeing a 'soft return' to zero tolerance policing?

Arrests increased in 2022 in Baltimore City for the first time since 2010.
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Arrests increased in 2022 in Baltimore City for the first time since 2010.

Conversations about police reform in Baltimore often include the phrase “community policing,” a model aimed at building relationships with residents, or call for a focus on “repeat violent offenders” instead of low-level offenses. How did we get here? What approaches came before?

Guest host Ashley Sterner speaks with journalist Brandon Soderberg, who co-authored, “I Got A Monster,” about Baltimore’s disgraced Gun Trace Task Force.

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Here We Go Again

Baltimore’s record police spending isn’t reducing crime

WYPR's Morning Edition news anchor Ashley Sterner serves up the latest Maryland news and weather every weekday morning, delightfully interspersed with the occasional snarky comment.
Maureen Harvie is Senior Supervising Producer for On the Record. She is a graduate of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and joined WYPR in 2014 as an intern for the newsroom. Whether coordinating live election night coverage, capturing the sounds of a roller derby scrimmage, interviewing veterans, or booking local authors, she is always on the lookout for the next story.