Baltimore Police Department

The Police Department’s Public Integrity Bureau investigated 15 individuals for policy and misconduct violations, including one captain, two lieutenants, four sergeants, three officers and five civilian staff members.

We’ll go On the Record with a look at alternative responses to 911 calls. Instead of police, health care workers are dispatched to behavioral health incidents. Can this improve community trust? How is this approach working in Baltimore?

“This bill repeals that exemption from the city charter, giving the council the power to implement much needed reforms within the BPD,” wrote Senator Jill Carter, a Democrat from Baltimore City, at the bill’s introduction.

Dixon’s main message is that she is going to get the city back on track, like how she says it was under her administration in the 2000s.

“The old way was broken” says Scott on crime and city services.

In the coming weeks, Baltimore City police will announce plans to enhance traffic patrol and increase traffic stops for violations, a department spokesperson confirmed.

Investigators still do not know who fired the fatal shots that night. None of the defendants are charged with murder outright.

Baltimore City spends half a billion dollars a year on policing. Does that spending translate to results? Journalist Brandon Soderberg examined three decades of spending and crunched the numbers. We talk about this, and his reporting on the history of zero-tolerance policing.

“The fact that this milestone is occurring at a time when the city is achieving a recent and historic reduction in violent crime… is a testament to the effectiveness of constitutional and community focused policing.”

A court filing shows that the U.S. Department of Justice agrees that BPD is now fully compliant on two sections of its consent decree with the federal government.