Jessica Anderson started at The Baltimore Sun 2010 and currently covers the Baltimore Police Department. She's mostly covered crime and breaking news. She graduated from Indiana University in Bloomington, Ind. and grew up in Baltimore County.
Officials with the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement said they aim to reach 75 program participants through this fiscal year and plan to expand the program to other districts in the future.
A Baltimore Sun analysis of hospital data found 1 in 8 gun violence victims was a child, a grim picture of gun culture made far worse by the coronavirus pandemic.
Tyree Moorehead, who went by the name Tyree Colion, was widely known for spray-painting the phrase “No Shoot Zone” at the locations of Baltimore shootings.
A former Baltimore Police officer previously sentenced to 60 days of incarceration for failing to stop an assault will not have to serve any time behind bars.
A former Baltimore Police officer was sentenced to two months of incarceration for failing to stop an assault by the owner of a used car lot who accused the victim of stealing a truck.
Baltimore remains on track to implement one of the nation’s most complex policing consent decrees, but persistent struggles continue in several reform areas, according to the judge overseeing the process.
A federal judge overseeing Baltimore Police’s reform efforts called officers Sunday and reported that a pair of squeegee workers gave him the middle finger, spat on his car and wrote “racist” in suds on the windows.