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- The Baltimore Police Department’s nine districts are expected to take new shapes in 2021 following the 2020 U.S. Census.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison announced five major staff changes Thursday, including moving the major in charge of homicide to oversee the “high priority” recruitment section.
- Nearly three months since Baltimore Police launched a new marketing campaign seeking men and women to “Be a Part of the Greatest Comeback Story in America,” the early results are promising.
- An African American female Baltimore Police sergeant said she was sexually harassed and retaliated against because of her race and gender.
- When Jennifer C. Boone was a teenager growing up in Maryland, it was on the bucolic Eastern Shore. Her return to the state is a bit grittier, as head of the FBI's Baltimore Field Office
- Baltimore County Police Wednesday identified the man accused of fraudulently misusing credit cards to fill “two large tanks” with diesel fuel — hours after Baltimore City’s Inner Harbor was paralyzed by a suspicious van containing 80 gallons of the fuel in a separate incident.
- An 18-year-old man facing a prison sentence after Baltimore police found a gun was dismissed by a judge who found police did not have probable cause to search.
- In a blink, Ray Maier went from bystander waiting for the light to change on Fayette Street to injured casualty caught in a clash between Baltimore Police and a man they say took a shot at a police officer early Tuesday and tried to run down another.
- Tyrone Banks led police on a 100 mph chase through four districts in 2015
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Harrison said the suspect is believed to be the man who tried to run over a police officer and fired at another early Tuesday.
- A Waverly gang member was sentenced to 25 years in prison Wednesday in federal court for opening fire on a carload of rivals and mistakenly hitting 3-year-old McKenzie Elliott.
- Nearly two weeks after one of their own was seriously injured in a shooting, Baltimore Police said their investigation is continuing.
- Anytime one of their own is injured—and whenever any shooting victim is transported to the hospital by ambulance—at least one Baltimore police car travels with the ambulance to help the journey
- Baltimore Police Sgt. Isaac Carrington, who was shot multiple times during an apparent robbery while off duty, left the hospital Wednesday afternoon but still has a long road of recovery ahead, officials said.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison on Monday is expected to meet with the founder of a surveillance plane program who said the technology can help deter violence, but the initiative has also elicited privacy concerns.
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‘Ready to throw officers under the bus’: Baltimore police feel angst over leadership, consent decree
Baltimore officers surveyed as part of the consent decree reform process expressed low morale due to excessive overtime, fears of losing their jobs if the must use force, and the belief that city and department leaders don't support them. - The 126-year-old, historically African-American fraternity’s week-long gathering includes volunteering, a school supplies giveaway and a parade.
- Sgt. Isaac Carrington’s neighbor recalls moments before Carrington was shot in their Northeast Baltimore neighborhood last week.
- The son of Coppin State University’s baseball coach was killed in a shooting Thursday night in Southwest Baltimore.
- Maryland District Court Judge Joan B. Gordon took a rare step holding Durriyyah Rose, an assistant public defender, held in contempt this month.
- Maryland highest court ruled this week that the smell of marijuana alone is not enough justification for law enforcement to search a person.
- The officer's testimony is at the center of the trial of Keon Gray, who is charged with shooting 7-year-old Taylor as she drove in a car with a young friend last summer.
- Baltimore police continued Friday to investigate Thursday’s shooting of an off-duty sergeant, who remained in critical condition.
- Baltimore police officer Michael Gentil was convicted by a judge this week.
- A Baltimore police sergeant is on life support after being shot multiple times by a masked gunman who tried to rob him while he was off duty and standing on his front lawn talking to a neighbor, police and hospital officials said Thursday night.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison on Thursday is expected to name a new deputy commissioner of the Public Integrity Bureau that oversees officer misconduct investigations.
- The Baltimore mother who reported her 4-year-old son missing and the woman’s partner were arrested in connection with the death of young Malachi Lawson after the child was found in a trash bin.
- U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings provided details Friday of a break-in at his Baltimore home last weekend, saying he scared the intruder away by yelling.
- Kahree A. Fowlkes, 16, was under GPS monitoring when police said he and Kamal Godwin, also 16, were part of a group who held up Deputy Commissioner Daniel Murphy and his wife.
- Baltimore Police Lt. Robert Quick Jr. is suspended amid an internal investigation, a police department spokesman said Thursday.
- Federal prosecutors in Baltimore say 90 defendants have been indicted in a series of federal gun and drug cases brought in the city in the last several weeks, exemplifying their efforts to stem the horrid pace of violence.
- Only two months have been deadlier in Baltimore than July 2019 — July 2015 when 45 were killed and May 2015 when there were 42 homicides.
- Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 3 President Sgt. Mike Mancuso said the plan is written for a department “flush with resources” --- which the Baltimore department is not he said --- because it lacks technology and is short by 500 officers, among other things.
- Police have made an arrest in connection with last week’s armed robbery of a deputy police commissioner and his wife, a Baltimore Police spokesman confirmed Friday.
- The federal judge enforcing Baltimore’s consent decree noted ongoing challenges, such as the city’s “torrid, unrelenting pace" of violence, but says he sees “some evidence of progress."
- Baltimore attorneys are fighting in federal court to protect a non-disparagement clause policy that the city hasn’t used in two years and elected officials say they don’t want to keep.
- Richard S. Barnes, 50, was previously charged with first and second-degree rape in June, after a woman told police she had been raped in the Charles Village area by man she believed was a police officer.
- he Baltimore Police Department is close to completing internal investigations related to officers implicated in the sweeping Gun Trace Task Force scandal, but the department still struggles to fully investigate its own,
- Sgt. Bill Shiflett and Officer Christopher Miller repeatedly and calmly tried to coax an armed man at a methadone clinic into giving up his gun just before he shot at them, triggering an exchange that left Shiflett shot and the gunman dead.
- Major Martin Bartness, who joined the department in 1997, will oversee the Baltimore Police Department's training academy.
- Daniel Murphy, the Baltimore Police deputy commissioner who was robbed at gunpoint while out with his wife Friday night, is a civilian employ who doesn’t carry a gun or badge, a police spokesman said Monday.
- The police commissioner’s new crime plan unveiled Thursday sets a “new performance goal” of responding to serious calls within 10 minutes and said officers will be asked to spend a third of their time on proactive efforts to curb violent crime in the city.
- Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison released a sweeping crime plan Thursday that includes new deployment strategies, plans for improved technology and other initiatives to help reduce violence. Here are the major points that you need to know.
- Sgt. Billy Shiflett led a group of Baltimore Police officers into the Man Alive clinic Monday when they were met with gunfire and Shiflett was injured, police say. The officer remains in serious condition Tuesday.
- When Dominique Foster was just 7-months-old, her father threw her through a glass door.Now, more than four decades later, Baltimore Police have again arrested her father, Lawrence Banks, and this time they’ve charged him with her murder.
- Two people were killed and two others — including a Baltimore police sergeant — were injured Monday morning when an armed man entered a drug treatment center on Maryland Avenue in Charles North demanding access to methadone, police said.
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Man indicted after 2018 shootout, pursuit near Hopkins faces additional contraband smuggling charges
A man who was indicted on drug-related charges following a shootout and pursuit that led of law enforcement officers to the entrance of Johns Hopkins Hospital in 2018 now faces additional federal charges, according to court records. - A 16-year-old boy and two women are injured after police say the group were shot Thursday night at the Alameda Marketplace.
- Lawrence Banks has been charged in the death of his adult daughter whose body was found dismembered outside a Northwest Baltimore dumpster, Baltimore Police said Thursday.
- The Baltimore Police Department’s marine unit wasted more than $30,000 in 2016 to salvage a damaged boat in the Inner Harbor, putting officers' safety and city property at risk when a no-cost state program was available, the city’s Office of the Inspector General found.