Baltimore police Lt. Brian Rice, one of six city police officers charged and later cleared in the in-custody death of Freddie Gray, is headed to a policing conference in Nashville next week. The $1,905.58 trip will be funded not by local, state or federal funds or grants, but by assets seized by Baltimore police, according […]
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Coalition of journalists, watchdogs sue for right to broadcast court recordings
A coalition of local journalists, watchdogs and legal groups filed a federal lawsuit today arguing for the right to broadcast recordings of criminal trials in Maryland. Under a section of Maryland’s Code of Criminal Procedure, the publication of audio and visual records from a trial, hearing, motion or argument during a criminal proceeding is forbidden, […]
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Keith Davis Jr. convicted on second-degree murder, gun charges
A Baltimore jury on Friday convicted Keith Davis Jr. in the 2015 murder of Pimlico security guard Kevin Jones, bringing to an end the fourth trial of the case that previously resulted in two mistrials and a conviction that was thrown out. Davis was charged with counts of second-degree and use of a firearm in […]
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Event Pick: Rise Bmore, a spoken and musical commemoration of Freddie Gray’s death
On this day three years ago, doctors pronounced Freddie Gray dead at University of Maryland Shock Trauma, a week after Baltimore police officers dragged him into a van for a fateful ride leading to his death. Tonight, local poets, writers, musicians and others will honor the 25-year-old whose death at the hands of police set […]
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Q&A: Mary Miller on investing in Baltimore businesses, working with police commissioner to reduce crime and more
The second in a series of interviews with the top-polling contenders for the Democratic nomination for mayor. Despite never holding elected office before–and in large part because of that fact–former U.S. Treasury official Mary Miller hopes to be the political outsider who can help “right the ship” in Baltimore City. “I think that someone who […]
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Tuesday Morning Headlines: BPD spends more than $100,000 on travel over last two months; A DIY effort to fix up houses near new city school; and more
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.
