Latest travel costs for Baltimore Police top $100,000 — Baltimore Brew Maryland Fleet Week Wrapping Up After Seeing Record Crowds This Year — CBS Baltimore Stuck with crumbling old homes near gleaming new school, Baltimore housing tries something new: DIY — The Sun Officers charged in Freddie Gray’s death take case against Mosby to Supreme […]
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Harrison backs plan for JHU police force if MOU gives oversight to the city
Acting Police Commissioner Michael Harrison feels a police force at Johns Hopkins University would help Baltimore, so long as a memorandum of understanding between the college and the city makes the school’s force accountable to local officials. This information comes from an op-ed by Mayor Catherine Pugh published yesterday in The Afro. Matthew Jablow, chief […]
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State bill requiring police commanders to live in city limits has Pugh’s, Harrison’s support
Legislation sponsored by Sen. Cory McCray that would require all Baltimore Police Department officials ranking at captain and up to live in Baltimore City has Mayor Catherine Pugh’s backing, as well as that of the city’s incoming police commissioner.
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Premiere: Watch the video for local noise musician Jeff Carey’s ‘EXT’
For his fourth album, “Zero Player Game,” local noise musician Jeff Carey used custom software and manipulated it with a joystick and video game controller to “an intensely artificial sound world where beats and bass lines are replaced with an elastic structure of synthetic texture, feedback and bit crushed noise blasts,” per a release.
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Former BPD sergeant indicted for alleged witness tampering, planting of gun to help ex-GTTF ringleader
Just as the last of the Gun Trace Task Force officers is set to be sentenced this Friday, another former Baltimore cop has been indicted for allegedly planting a BB gun on someone to help out the GTTF’s former ringleader, Wayne Jenkins, in 2014, and for trying to keep a fellow officer from telling the […]
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T.J. Smith, former chief spokesman for Baltimore police, joining Olszewski administration
T.J. Smith’s retirement from government press relations didn’t last long. Today, roughly three months after he announced his resignation from the Baltimore Police Department with an open letter to the city, Baltimore County Executive John Olszewski Jr.’s office announced Smith as its new press secretary.
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Q&A: Brandon Scott on his Park Heights roots, his vision for ‘transformational and generational change’ and more
The third in a series of interviews with the top-polling contenders for the Democratic nomination for mayor. At 36 years old, City Council President Brandon Scott is the youngest contender in the race for mayor. But he also ranks behind only Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young and former Mayor Sheila Dixon in the number of […]
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Weekend Events Calendar: Easter Celebrations, Earth Day, Smoke Fest and more
Spring is in full bloom, so get out to enjoy Easter, Earth Day a special green date. Festivals abound, from Patterson Park to Station North to Herring Run Nursery. Check out the lineup:
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New top cop Michael Harrison introduces himself to Baltimore
The Michael Harrison era for the Baltimore Police Department has begun.
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Advocates, city senators punt to 2020 on push to bring BPD under city control
For 159 years, the Baltimore Police Department has remained uniquely under the State of Maryland’s control, subject almost entirely to local laws set by state legislators rather than the Baltimore City Council. And that’ll now remain true for at least one more year.
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Trump no longer coming to Baltimore this week
After considerable hype over the weekend about a forthcoming visit from President Donald Trump to East Baltimore, it turns out 45 isn’t actually coming.
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Friday Morning Headlines: Officer Charged in Freddie Gray’s Death to Work in Internal Affairs; Baltimore Metro Shut Down for Weekend; and More
After JHU helped create buzz, the mosquito emoji is coming this summer — Technical.ly Officer charged in Freddie Gray case moved to Baltimore police Internal Affairs — Baltimore Sun Cardin Introduces Bill That Would Ban Military Parades — WBAL Local Teen Owen Pereira Wins $50,000 Grand Prize on Top Chef Junior — Baltimore magazine Baltimore […]
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In interviews, New Orleans officials, citizens (mostly) sing Harrison’s praises
Asked for an example of when Michael Harrison’s leadership failed the city of New Orleans, Councilman Jason Rogers Williams settled on one of the now-former police superintendent’s most recent actions. “There was that one time he took that job in Baltimore.”
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Elected officials, advocates remember late Baltimore Rep. Elijah Cummings
Elijah Cummings, the son of former sharecroppers who rose to serve in the halls of the Maryland State House and Congress, totaling 36 years in elected office, has died. He was 68.
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Wednesday Afternoon Headlines: Outpouring of Support for Dog Abandoned at Patterson Park; Freddie Gray Protesters Sue City Cops; and More
Hogan budget proposal cuts school programs — WYPR Abandoned dog left with note receives outpouring of love, adoption requests — WBAL-TV Freddie Gray protesters take police to court—officers involved in civil suit are associated with the corruption probe of the Gun Trace Task Force — Baltimore Beat/The Real News Brewery in the works on Under […]
