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The staggering costs of the Gun Trace Task Force case will include more shattered trust.

While many Baltimore lawmakers said they were encouraged that Darryl De Sousa could help turn back a surge of violence, some said they were dissatisfied with what they heard from De Sousa and Mayor Catherine Pugh on the issue of police corruption.

The Baltimore City Council will formally begin the confirmation process for the new police commissioner at its meeting Monday.

Jurors are supposed to be able to trust police when they testify in court. But with each day, the reasons to disbelieve Baltimore police grow deeper and deeper.

The Baltimore Police Department is procuring a biometric system that will require officers to scan their fingerprints at the start and end of shifts in order to prove they’ve worked the hours claimed on their payslips, officials confirmed to The Baltimore Sun on Wednesday.

A man found dead inside a well in Leakin Park in Southwest Baltimore Tuesday died of trauma to his body, and his death was ruled a homicide after an autopsy, police said Wednesday.

A parade of drug dealers have taken the stand to testify against officers in the Gun Trace Task Force trial

Overcoming the inherent conflict in having police officers investigate themselves requires outside supervision.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has recruited the architect of predictive policing in Los Angeles and Chicago. “His work has greatly changed how things are done in Chicago, and the early signs are encouraging."

Baltimore plainclothes units have been a constant source of community complaints and corruption, putting officers and civilians in danger. Why on earth would the city's new police commissioner consider bringing them back?

A second former Baltimore Police officer took the stand Monday at the federal racketeering trial of two fellow officers, detailing widespread overtime pay abuse and saying his supervisor told him to carry a BB gun to plant on people.

Baltimore elected eight new lawmakers to the 15-member council in November 2016, a historic turnover that offered the hope of a new day in a city long beset by poverty and crime. They soon found out how hard it is to bring about sweeping change.

A look back at the two shooting incidents Acting Commissioner Darryl De Sousa was involved in back in the 1990s.

After he was named Baltimore’s acting police commissioner by Mayor Catherine Pugh, Darryl De Sousa gave an order for an unspecified command-level office to have its access to department files and communication systems cut off immediately for fear that sensitive information would be leaked, he said.

The Carroll County Sheriff's Office and other law enforcement agencies are still searching for Emmilee Hamby, a 15-year-old who has been missing from her Westminster home since early Wednesday morning.

Former Det. Maurice Ward will be cross-examined after his explosive testimony Tuesday outlining various crimes and misconduct as a member of the Baltimore Police Department's Gun Trace Task Force.

The trial of two former members of the Baltimore Police Department's elite Gun Trace Task Force got underway Tuesday with opening statements.

Jury selection underway in federal trial of two Baltimore Police officers charged with taking part in crimes of Gun Trace Task Force

Every few years — usually when violent crime is rising — the mayor of Baltimore fires the police commissioner.

Confusion was rampant inside Baltimore Police headquarters on Friday following Mayor Catherine Pugh’s announcement that she had fired Police Commissioner Kevin Davis, as other top commanders had their access to the building and their cell phone service cut off, according to sources.

Press conferences are a good place to start in changing the narrative, as Mayor Catherine Pugh says she wants to do in Baltimore. But her event to announce the firing of Kevin Davis and promotion of Darryl De Sousa to police commissioner Friday didn't generate much feeling of change at all.

The period following the death of Freddie Gray was supposed to be a time when Baltimore restored the community’s faith in the police department. Yet in 2017, the Baltimore Police Department found itself mired in scandal after scandal.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh fired police commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday. Here's a rundown of what we know.

As a media critic, I couldn't help noticing how much effort Police Commissioner Kevin Davis was putting into optics and image without much success. As a 27-year resident of Baltimore City, I also wondered if that was where our top cop's focus should be while crime tore up the city.

On Friday, Baltimore mayor Catherine Pugh announced the firing of police commissioner Kevin Davis and the hiring of new commissioner Darryl De Sousa. This is the transcript of the press conference.

It's about time Mayor Catherine Pugh fired Kevin Davis as police commissioner. But can Darryl De Sousa lead the Baltimore Police Department where it needs to go?

Reaction to the firing of Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday.

Federal prosecutors have agreed to free a former Safe Streets anti-violence worker who was sentenced to eight years in prison and claims he was wrongly arrested by members of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force.

Anthony McCarthy, the former spokesman for Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh, has taken a position leading the city's NAACP chapter.

Baltimore police are investigating a shooting Monday in the 2500 block of E. Monument St.

Baltimore police are investigating a nonfatal shooting Saturday night in East Baltimore.

"They are like the terminator. They just never stop coming." A look at Derek Hines and Leo Wise, the two assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting the corrupt squad of Baltimore police.

The team overseeing police reforms in Baltimore released a plan Monday outlining dates and goals for the year.

Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force might set a Maryland record for public harm from public corruption.

Sgt. Wayne Jenkins, the leader of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force pleaded guilty Friday morning, expressing remorse for his actions while also distancing himself from a case in which he is accused of planting drugs that involved a now-slain officer.

The improbable friendship between a former Baltimore police officer and the man who shot up his squad in the 1976 "Good Friday Shooting."

Federal prosecutors in the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption case say they have “additional targets” in their sights, according to a filing in which they ask for tight restrictions on evidence shared with the current defendants.

The former supervisor of the corrupt Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force is set to plead guilty, according to court records and his attorney.

More than 1,000 people have been killed in Baltimore in the last three years. More than 1,000 people were shot in 2017 alone. As another historic year of violence blurs into history, and the page is turned to 2018, this is the reality: Baltimore is not just losing blood, it is hemorrhaging it.

BPD commissioner: In an effort to report information that speaks to our organizational health but is rarely the subject of a local newspaper story, I want to share some things you just don’t hear about as often as I think you should.

Baltimore prosecutors continue to bring forward cases involving a police officer who they acknowledge has "credibility issues" by working around him.

For Carroll County Public Schools, the past year has been filled with numerous incidents, many leaving the school system in the spotlight, sometimes statewide and nationally.

Police brass didn't want to know what was going on in the Gun Trace Task Force so long as its statistics looked good.

Text messages from several of the officers charged in the arrest and death of Freddie Gray reveal something about their mindset in the days after Gray's death, amid the rioting and as prosecutors zeroed in on them.

Sgt. Wayne Jenkins and Detectives Daniel Hersl and Marcus Taylor will appear in U.S. District Court Tuesday afternoon for a motions hearing

Perhaps 2,000 cases will be affected by the Baltimore Police Gun Trace Task Force corruption scandal, and that may not be the end of the department's problems.

Three people were shot in Baltimore on Saturday and Sunday, according to Baltimore police. 

Baltimore Det. Jemell Rayam has pleaded guilty in federal court to years of robbing suspects as a member of the department’s Gun Trace Task Force. But years before the crimes for which he has pleaded guilty, Rayam was caught in an internal affairs investigation of the same sort of allegations.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland on Thursday requested police body camera footage from the initial, days-long investigation into Det. Sean Suiter’s fatal shooting in Harlem Park last month, calling the police response there "unprecedented."

Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that the FBI would “probably” be able to act on Baltimore’s request for that agency to take over the investigation of a police detective killed in West Baltimore last month.