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BPD could move central district to former Baltimore Sun building by July, Young says

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Before moving to Port Covington, the Baltimore Sun was headquartered at N. Calvert Street. That building will become the new home of the Baltimore Police Department’s central district. Image via Wikimedia Commons.

The Baltimore Police Department’s central district is planning to move into the Baltimore Sun’s former building in downtown and could open there by July, Mayor Bernard C. “Jack” Young said today during a press conference inside the building.

Earlier today, the Board of Estimates approved a three-year lease to rent the nearly 122,000-square-foot property at 401/501 N. Calvert Street. Atapco Properties, the owner of the building, will charge between $1.7 million and $2.6 million per year for rent in addition to other charges.

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Survey finds majority of Baltimoreans are dissatisfied with Baltimore Police Department and don’t trust officers

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A majority of Baltimoreans are dissatisfied with the Baltimore Police Department and do not trust the department’s officers, according to a recent survey from Morgan State University’s Institute for Urban Research.

The survey found that only 12 percent of participants agreed or strongly agreed that BPD is doing a good job of serving their neighborhood or community. Meanwhile, 63 percent of participants disagreed or strongly disagreed with that view.

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Baltimore to Consider Giving Police and Firefighters a Break

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Robert OBrien
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Can a piece of legislation mend the broken relationships between residents, public safety officials, and the city?

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#SoBoGives – A Donation Celebration! Local Businesses Team Up for a Great Cause

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sobogivesflierTogether with the Baltimore Police Department- Community Collaboration Division, 2 East Wells & 1901 South Charles Apartments will be collecting non-perishable food items with NOW- 11/19 at both apartment communities.

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#SoBoGives – A Donation Celebration! NOW Accepting Non-Perishable Foods and Children’s PJs

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sobogivesflierTogether with the Baltimore Police Department- Community Collaboration Division, 2 East Wells & 1901 South Charles Apartments will be collecting non-perishable food items with NOW- 11/19 at both apartment communities.

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#SoBoGives – A Donation Celebration November 19th

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sobogivesflierTogether with the Baltimore Police Department- Community Collaboration Division, 2 East Wells & 1901 South Charles Apartments will be collecting non-perishable food items with NOW- 11/19 at both apartment communities.

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Baltimore Police Department Amends “Use of Force” Policy in Favor of De-Escalation

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Patrick Woolley is an experienced criminal and DUI defense attorney in Virginia, practicing primarily in Fairfax, Prince William, Fauquier, and Culpeper Counties.

Following the death of Freddie Gray from injuries suffered in Baltimore Police custody in 2015, it seems that federal and local authorities have begun to heed the call for the fight against police brutality.

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Baltimore Police Say It’s Okay for the Public to Film Them, for Real This Time

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Robert OBrien
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For more than two years now, Baltimore police have had a standing order to allow the public to videotape them as they go about their business. But according to the American Civil Liberties Union, the order wasn’t good enough. And the proof is in the pudding! Just last month officers demanded a college student cease filming an arrest in Towson and “pushed away” a Baltimore Sun photographer at a crime scene.

Now, after coughing up $250,000 over a complaint from a man who claims Baltimore police erased his cell phone video of an arrest at Preakness in 2010, the department is definitively changing its policy.

As reported in the Baltimore Sun, the new rule states: “Members of the general public have a First Amendment right to video record, photograph, and/or audio record BPD members while BPD members are conducting official business … unless such recordings interfere with police activity.”

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Baltimore’s Police Force May Soon Grow by 300 Officers

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The Baltimore Police Department has announced that they are looking to remedy the city’s extreme cop shortage by going on a massive hiring binge of 300 new officers. The department hopes to complete hiring by the end of the summer. Assuming they meet that goal, we should notice a huge boost in patrol officers by August or September.

Acording to Lt. Eric Kowalczyk, “community after community” has been voicing its desire for a larger police presence. Despite Sgt. Sarah Connolly’s previous assurances that our overworked and understaffed police force in no way impacts “the safety of our citizens,” Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has conceded that there are simply too few officers to handle the level of crime we’ve been seeing.

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Did a Baltimore Homicide Detective Shoot Himself to Get Worker’s Compensation?

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Here’s a weird one. In 2011, a Baltimore city homicide detective  was shot in a parking garage downtown. And state prosecutors believe the assailant may have been himself. Now Anthony Fata is on trial for “perjury, misconduct in office, and making false claims to obtain worker’s compensation.”

Fata claimed that he was confronted by an armed man (who was black, just like Karla Porter’s imaginary gunman) in the parking garage stairwell. The man shot at him, after which Fata returned fire. The gunman ran up the stairs, and for a moment Fata followed, but eventually hung back, believing he was out of bullets.

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