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What Maryland can do to reduce gun violence
When President Barack Obama talked about the violence in Newtown, Conn., in his weekly radio address on Saturday, he urged the nation to act not only to stop mass killings like that one but also those that occur on "countless street corners in places like...
Tags: Personal Weapon Control, Barack Obama, Criminals, Murder, Justice System
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Mayor's top lobbyist to leave City Hall
Kim Washington, a top aide to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Baltimore's chief lobbyist, will leave her post early in the coming General Assembly session, city officials announced Monday. Washington, a friend of Rawlings-Blake's since childhood, will...Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Public Officials, Local Government, Government, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Bealefeld on the 'failed' drug war, 'The Wire,' and Coldplay
Over the weekend, Baltimore Sun magazine published excerpts from a Q&A with Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. After five years of talking to bad guys with guns, features editor Sam Sessa got him to dish on some more light-hearted topics such...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Murder, Appalachian National Scenic Trail, Federal Hill, Conservation
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Man arrested in 2011 murder believed linked to recent killing
More than a year ago, police suspected that James Berry III had killed a man during a triple shooting in Bolton Hill, and they presented their evidence to prosecutors. At the time, the case was not deemed strong enough to merit arresting Berry, once a...
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Criminals, Murder, Awards and Prizes, Shootings
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Signs that U.S. gun violence on rise don't bear out in Baltimore
The Wall Street Journal over the weekend used Baltimore and the world-renowned Maryland Shock Trauma Center as the setting for a story saying hospital statistics show gun violence nationwide was “soaring,” and that a continuing national...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Murder, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Shootings, Clarence Thomas
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Some city leaders question pick of outsider as commissioner
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's pick of a Californian to head Baltimore's Police Department prompted questions Monday from City Council members and other city leaders who had been hoping the new commissioner would come from the department's ranks....
Tags: Edward L. Reisinger III, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Bernard C. Young
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Taking command
Whoever Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake had chosen to replace retired Baltimore City Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III would have had a tough act to follow. But in Anthony Batts, who comes to Baltimore after a 30-year career in California that...
Tags: Photography Supplies and Services, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Washington, DC, Photography and Video
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Batts to get Council President Young's support as police commissioner
Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. "Jack" Young met briefly Wednesday morning with Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's pick for police commissioner and pledged to support him. Young had backed an internal candidate for the post, and he declined...
Tags: Elections, Local Elections, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Bernard C. Young, Federal Hill
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Batts, new Baltimore police chief pick, says he's committed
Baltimore's next police commissioner believes the drug trade is at the core of crime problems from car break-ins to gang killings. And it's an issue that Anthony W. Batts says he's seen up close. "I have relatives who have had addiction problems, and...
Tags: Bob Cherry, Public Officials, Government, Laura Richardson, Washington, DC
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New police commissioner expected to be former Oakland chief
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has selected former Oakland, Calif., Police Chief Anthony Batts as Baltimore's next police commissioner, bringing in a leader who has been hailed as an innovator but who struggled to push his agenda at his last job. Batts,...
Tags: Protest, Los Angeles Police Department, Port Discovery Children's Museum, Steve James, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake
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Robbery is latest in a string of shootings on Greenmount Ave.
Once a place to wind down during retirement, Johnston Square Apartments, a gray, fairly new multistory apartment complex for seniors along Greenmount Avenue in East Baltimore, has become a safe house. "The majority of people in here stay in here," said...
Tags: Halloween, Anthony W. Batts, Murder, Rentals, Michael Allen
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Rawlings-Blake names new Rec and Parks director
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has hired a new director of recreation and parks, choosing an experienced manager who has headed similar agencies in three cities. Ernest W. Burkeen Jr., 64, who previously ran recreation and parks departments in Miami,...Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Tampa, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Michigan State University, Fort Lauderdale
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