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New data shows that African Americans are still disproportionately being arrested for minor marijuana offenses.

Baltimore County Executive Johnny Olszewski announced on Wednesday several new members of his leadership team — including naming former Baltimore police spokesman T.J. Smith as press secretary.

A former Baltimore officer says the police department retaliated against him when he reported an alleged misuse of resources during a marine unit salvage

Mayor Catherine Pugh will hold two community “meet and greet” meetings next month with her nominee to become Baltimore’s next police commissioner. Fitzgerald is the chief in Fort Worth, Texas. He needs to win a majority of 15 votes on the Baltimore City Council to get the new job.

A 216-page Baltimore City Council report released Tuesday offers conflicting views from Fort Worth civic leaders and others on Joel Fitzgerald, Mayor Catherine Pugh's choice to become the next police commissioner.

After a year of largely rewriting polices, the Baltimore Police Department will begin retraining officers next year, which some observers hope will result in noticeable reforms.

The Central District Baltimore Police Station downtown was temporarily closed Thursday “to ensure there were no environmental hazards” after a sewage pipe burst, causing an officer to fall ill, a police spokesman said.

Police believe the man was shot in the 2300 block of Liberty Heights Ave., just outside the mall, and then ran to the mall’s parking lot, which was taped off as a crime scene.

Maryland's Commission to Restore Trust in Policing, which has subpoena power and is underway after initially being opposed by Baltimore City leaders, is focusing on providing as much clarity as possible about how orchestrated police corruption went undetected for years.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh is considering hiring a former acting Baltimore Police commissioner - a recent critic of the agency and an advocate for tougher policing tactics - for a role in City Hall where he would advise her on crime policy. Anthony Barksdale was acting commissioner in 2012.

The Baltimore Police Department had a widespread practice of wrongly expunging internal affairs files of officers accused of misconduct, the public defender’s office alleges, and it’s calling for an investigation into the department’s practices.

Baltimore police are investigating the August killing of a 49-year-old man whose death in Northwest Baltimore was ruled a homicide last weekend, according to the Baltimore Police Department.

Multiple calls were set on fire overnight in Mount Vernon, Baltimore fire officials said Friday.

Three people were shot Friday evening in Baltimore — one of them fatally — the latest shooting victims in a year that has crossed the thresholds of 300 homicides and more than 900 shootings overall.

The incident happened just after midnight at the Blarney Stone Pub on the 700 block of S. Broadway, while Thursday’s crowds lingered in the bars and restaurants of the Baltimore neighborhood known in part for its colorful nightlife.

Police are looking for a man they say stole a cellphone at gunpoint and fled on a Bird scooter in the Belair-Edison neighborhood Monday.

The monitoring team overseeing the Baltimore Police Department consent decree released a draft Friday of its plan for the second year, which largely calls for the training of officers on new polices.

A Baltimore police detective has been found guilty of assaulting a man who he put in a choke hold and punched earlier this year at a Charles Village restaurant.

Police are searching for a white vehicle after a hit-and-run killed a woman in Northeast Baltimore Friday morning.

A former employee was arrested and charged Wednesday in the shooting of a Restaurant Depot employee during a pre-dawn robbery attempt at the restaurant supply warehouse in South Baltimore earlier this month, police said Thursday.

The Baltimore Police Department faced an unprecedented number of challenges in 2018 that included leadership turnover, cases of officer misconduct, continued high levels of violence and the final convictions in one of the biggest police corruption scandals in city history.

A man had been involved in a physical altercation inside a McDonald's in Baltimore when he collapsed, became unconscious and never recovered, police said.

What's criminal behavior for an ex-police commissioner just means a billionaire president can't serve on charitable boards.

Maryland Senate President Mike Miller says he'll push in the 2019 General Assembly session for several law enforcement initiatives in Baltimore, including approving a police force at Johns Hopkins University. Miller says he also wants to help the city hire 500 new police officers.

The state commission exploring the Baltimore Police Department’s Gun Trace Task Force scandal heard contrasting testimony in its first meeting held in Baltimore.

Baltimore City Council President Bernard C. “Jack” Young says it appeared the police department was “stonewalling” auditors looking into the agency’s performance at attracting recruits. Comptroller Joan Pratt says she talked with the interim police commissioner to resolve some of the issues.

De Sousa was charged in May with three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal tax returns. He resigned one week later.

The Baltimore Police Department has recalled all of its officers detailed to a special ATF task force, the department confirmed Monday. It would not immediately provide a reason. 

A man was fatally shot Thursday night and another was killed in a double shooting Friday morning, Baltimore police said, inching the city closer to the 300th homicide of the year.

A 14-year-old autistic student from Montgomery County ended up in Baltimore on Wednesday when his afternoon school bus drop-off did not go as planned, authorities said.

Joel Fitzgerald, named as Baltimore Police Department commissioner, needs to win a majority of 15 City Council votes to secure the job. Where do council members stand on Mayor Catherine Pugh's choice to lead the department? The mayor started the nomination process on Dec. 6.

How long is long enough for Joel Fitzgerald, the Baltimore mayor's nominee to head the police department, to make changes that reduce violence and carry out a court-ordered consent decree to reform law enforcement? Fitzgerald hasn’t been specific, beyond saying he’s committed to the job.

Baltimore Police said they continue to investigate a shooting that left a 13-year-old girl and an adult relative injured in a shooting Sunday evening.

A 58-year-old man was killed and a woman and another man were injured in three separate shootings Friday, Baltimore Police said.

Baltimore police continue to ask for information that will lead to an arrest in the death of Jacquelyn Smith, who was stabbed by a man in her car after giving money to a panhandler.

A former Baltimore police officer has admitted to the FBI that he stole money, lied in police reports, and improperly used electronic surveillance devices, federal prosecutors in California said — widening the scope of police misconduct unearthed by the Gun Trace Task Force scandal.

The Civilian Review Board, a panel of volunteers that reviews Baltimore police misconduct complaints, is withdrawing its lawsuit filed last month after the city refused to release police internal affairs records amid a dispute over confidentiality agreements.

The confirmation process for Baltimore police commissioner nominee Joel Fitzgerald officially begins on Thursday, as the City Council takes up his nomination at its final meeting of the year.

Two suspects shot a man who works at the Restaurant Depot in a robbery attempt at the warehouse just before 5 a.m., Baltimore Police spokesman Jeremy Silbert said.

A Baltimore police helicopter has helped ground units swiftly arrest a carjacking suspect.

Police were still searching Monday for a man who stabbed an Aberdeen woman to death  early Saturday morning in Baltimore.

cember 3, 2018, 11:35 PM Two men were shot, one fatally, in the Oliver neighborhood Monday night, according to Baltimore police.

A noose was found in Patterson Park near the Pagoda on Sunday morning, police said. Officers were called to the 2300 block of East Baltimore Street about 11:21 a.m., police spokeswoman Chakia Fennoy said.

Joel Fitzgerald needs to gain the trust of the community if he wants to be Baltimore Police Commissioner.

The Baltimore Police Department is still struggling to hire new officers, as a new report shows.

Instead of repeatedly throwing our eggs into the proverbial commissioner basket and then axing them like failed big-time college football coaches, we need to change the Baltimore Police Departments’s structure from the top down.

Leaked video shows Baltimore Police homicide detectives interviewed an informant who described the death of Det. Sean Suiter as a homicide and identified a lead on a possible suspect.

Former Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa is scheduled to appear in court for a rearraignment hearing next month, court records show.

Two police officers and two civilians suffered minor injuries in a crash Thursday in Northwest Baltimore, city police said.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh said she expects the city's new police commissioner could be paid about $260,000 — a 25 percent increase compared with what previous commissioners have made. The salary would make Joel Fitzgerald among the best paid city employees.