When it comes to sentencing guidelines for a person who kills someone while driving under the influence of alcohol, attorneys on both sides of the courtroom agree there is a balancing act judges have to handle According to Maryland code, homicide by motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol...
In touting its technology, the private Ohio-based company that has conducted hundreds of hours of aerial surveillance on behalf of the Baltimore Police Department since January often pointed to a privacy policy that includes restrictions on footage retention. "All media will be stored in a secure...More
When an Ohio company pitched its aerial surveillance technology to the Baltimore Police Department in the summer of 2014, department officials weren't interested, according to internal emails obtained by The Baltimore Sun through a public records request. Persistent Surveillance Systems said it...
Before the first plane left the ground, the company operating an aerial surveillance program for the Baltimore Police Department recommended that the department conduct focus groups and other outreach efforts to gauge community acceptance and concerns. But the department did not hold any such meetings....
Baltimore Police are investigating after a man was found dead in Charles Village Wednesday night. At about 11:15 p.m., officers found a man suffering from “trauma to the neck” in the 100 block of West 25th Street after being called for a report of a “questionable death,” police said. The man’s...
Police and prosecutors in Baltimore have launched investigations after being alerted to body camera footage that the public defender’s office says shows an officer planting drugs. One officer has been suspended and two others have been placed on administrative duty, police said. Police said they...
Half of the mothers who lived in the neighborhoods wracked by the civil unrest that followed the death of Freddie Gray in 2015 became so stressed by the circumstances that they suffered from insomnia, loss of appetite and other depressive symptoms, according to new research by the University of...
Dozens of Baltimore business owners are suing city officials, including the police department and former Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, saying they mishandled the city's response to the rioting in 2015. In a nearly 700-page complaint filed in federal court this week, more than 60 plaintiffs say...
In one of her first acts on the job in 2015, U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch called for an end to rioting in Baltimore by promising an independent civil rights investigation into the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old black man whose fatal injuries in police custody had provoked the unrest....
Prosecutors dropped all charges Wednesday against three Baltimore police officers accused in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray, bringing to an end one of the highest-profile criminal cases in the city's history with zero convictions. Baltimore State's Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby acknowledged the...
Six Baltimore police officers cleared of criminal charges in Freddie Gray's arrest and death will be investigated by Montgomery County police, who are leading the internal affairs reviews that could determine whether the officers can return to policing city streets. Officers from the Washington...