Safe Streets

Officials are making big changes to its Safe Streets initiative but a hearing to discuss it was halted after a public spat over communication.

We’ll go On the Record with Freedom Jones of the Center for Hope at LifeBridge Health. We talk about the Center’s connection to Safe Streets--a gun violence interruption program in Baltimore--and how to heal the trauma of the frontline work of stopping violence.

A MD lawmaker discusses her new "gun court" bill, and a city official describes plans to expand the Mayor's "Community Violence Intervention Ecosystem."

City leaders also went over the results of an internal evaluation of Safe Streets.

Baltimore, DC and other cities are investing heavily in V-I programs. But do they actually reduce violent crime?

We talk with a Safe Streets violence interruptor and leaders of MONSE about new efforts to curb the city's epidemic of violence.

Dante Barksdale, a leader of the violence-prevention program Safe Streets, was shot to death on Sunday in East Baltimore. Barksdale, who was also known as…

The state Senate on Friday voted along party lines to override 16 of Gov. Larry Hogan’s vetoes. The list of bills includes three intended to reduce crime…

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh unveiled her $2.8 billion budget for the coming fiscal year yesterday at a meeting of the Board of Estimates. The budget…

343 people were killed in Baltimore last year, most of them, shot. In the wake of record homicides, two individuals are among those working on the street…