Safe Streets

Mayor Brandon Scott and leaders from three major health systems marked Gun Violence Awareness month with a resource fair at Mondawmin Mall’s parking lot, Monday.

Violence is falling in Baltimore. City officials say anti-violence initiatives like Safe Streets are making a difference. But can they survive federal funding cuts and a tightening state budget?

Among Baltimore's efforts to reduce homicides is Safe Streets, a violence interruption program that emphasizes conflict mediation. We speak with Greg Marshburn, who directs four Safe Streets sites in the city.

“It showed that they had already made some efforts at self improvement, and more importantly, they were completely open to all of the audit department's recommendations about further improvements they could make to their own controls,” said Comptroller Bill Henry.

“Off the record, neither MONSE nor the audits team will verify the individual, so we really just need a name that doesn’t sound fictional.”

The Brooklyn Safe Streets office will join Park Heights, Franklin Square and the Belvedere sites who have all celebrated a similar milestone recently.

The sites join Penn-North which celebrated the same milestone earlier this year.

We’ll go On the Record with Democrat John Sarbanes to ask why he’s quitting Congress, and what he plans to do. Then we catch up with Baltimore Banner reporter Adam Willis on plans for the Inner Harbor, city-council districts, and Safe Streets.

A spokesperson for the FBI said the agency “conducted court authorized law enforcement activity this morning.”

“We are setting a path forward with the goal of ensuring every mistake outlined in these reports is never repeated,” said Mayor Brandon Scott.