A quartet of Baltimore teens faces decades of prison for a string of 26 alleged carjackings and attacks on drivers from last fall, including more than a dozen carried out with firearms and several that left victims with broken bones and other injuries.
Per The Sun, there’s a new “experiment” afoot in parts of the city that have for years experienced violence.
“The idea is simple: flood them with services,” the paper of record said on Twitter.
This would seemingly be good news in a city where the mayor is focused on changing the narrative–here are communities in need getting help. But many on social media saw it as something else: A municipal government patting itself on the back for jumping over the very low bar of using tax dollars to provide things that citizens need and want.
Mayor Catherine Pugh said the recent spell of zero homicides for 12 days—broken on Tuesday by two murders in Northeast Baltimore—can be attributed to the efforts of the Baltimore Ceasefire campaign and crime-fighting initiatives from Police Commissioner-Designate Darryl De Sousa.
After roughly two and a half years at the helm of the Baltimore Police Department, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis has been let go.
Two longtime Patterson Park dwellers still have their wheels, but they’re missing some doors.
Baltimore police say a local woman used one weird trick to stock her online store for free.
With no signs of violence slowing in Baltimore at the end of 2017, Maryland’s governor plans to send in U.S. Marshals, state troopers and probation and parole officers to assist city law enforcement, and to ramp up demolition of vacant properties in crime-riddled areas, among other strategies.
Carroll County Public Schools has suspended all student field trips to the city due to concerns about crime.
Several stolen autos, including two nearly brand new ones, almost made their way to the Ivory Coast and Nigeria this month by way of Baltimore.
For the second time in two years, the Baltimore Police Department has forcibly shut down a convenience store due to concerns about crime.
This was going to be a column about my new kitchen counters, and about how you shouldn’t live with things you hate, and then we heard the news from Las Vegas. We were coming home from a college tour in upstate New York, from eating delicious Italian food in Syracuse, from spending time with our dear friend who teaches up there. We were sleepy, sated, a little stressed out about this and that. An ordinary Monday, awash in blessings.
New figures from Johns Hopkins University reveal upticks in sexual assault reports and certain types of violent crime in and around the Homewood campus in 2016.
The Maryland Senate Judicial Proceedings Committee convened yesterday to listen to testimony from city officials, community leaders, and experts from Johns Hopkins, among others, to address Baltimore’s spike in violence.
Gov. Larry Hogan called a meeting in the city today about what can be done to address Baltimore’s ballooning violent crime problem. Unfortunately, he appears to have excluded two prominent local elected officials, both of whom have major stakes in addressing the issue.
