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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?

Darryl D. De Sousa will be Baltimore's 8th police commissioner since 2000.

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

Commissioner Davis was given a five-year term back in 2015, with a $150,000 severance package should he be fired without cause.

A Baltimore detective’s testimony, to which he repeatedly held firm under oath, went to the core of the state’s case, helping to establish the defendant's link to the heroin stash house. It just wasn’t true.

A new study of Baltimore police strategies to combat gun violence from 2003 to 2017 has concluded the most effective was the so-called “hot spots” program that sent plainclothes detectives into violent neighborhoods to focus on illegal gun possession and individuals with a history of gun offenses.

Baltimore has a crime problem - but there's much more to our story than that.

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

There has been a lot of talk about narratives coming out of City Hall lately. And with it, some criticism of the media. "Happy New Year! Change the Narrative ... Goodness Is On the Rise!" Mayor Catherine Pugh wrote in her first tweet of the new year. So, let's have a real talk about narratives.

The Gun Trace Task Force case, the bribery trial of state Sen. Nathaniel Oaks, and the killings of Phylicia Barnes and McKenzie Elliott are among the trials to watch in Baltimore in 2018

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.

The FBI has rejected calls for it to take over the investigation into the fatal shooting of a Baltimore homicide detective who was set to testify in a federal police corruption case, saying it has no evidence to suggest Det. Sean Suiter’s death was connected to the corruption probe.

Three weeks after Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis asked the FBI to take over the investigation into the fatal shooting of Det. Sean Suiter in West Baltimore in November, he still didn’t have an answer.

A program that employs independent, street-wise mediators to interrupt and prevent violence in at-risk and dangerous Baltimore neighborhoods — without involving police — will be expanded from four to 10 neighborhoods and shifted from the health department to the mayor’s criminal justice office.

A rundown of information made available by police in the killing of Baltimore Police Det. Sean Suiter

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.

The driver who led police on a dramatic, high-speed car chase through West Baltimore was arrested at noon Friday on the 1800 block of Gwynns Falls Parkway near Mondawmin Mall.

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."

The family of slain Baltimore police Det. Sean Suiter “deserve to find out the truth” and welcome an independent investigation by the FBI, according to his 82-year-old uncle Sherman “Pops” Basil.

Police commissioner Kevin Davis raised the possibility last week that Det. Sean Suiter death could be a suicide rather than a murder. If that proves to be the case, the detective's family would likely lose out on hundreds of thousands of dollars in benefits.

It’s now been a week since Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis wrote a public letter asking the FBI to take over his department’s investigation into the shooting death of Det. Sean Suiter, and still no answer.

Mayor Catherine Pugh and Gov. Larry Hogan have very different conceptions about how to fight crime in Baltimore. We need both.

Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday announced initiatives aimed at curbing violent crime in Baltimore. The following is a transcript of the announcement.

Hogan announces initiatives to fight violent crime in Baltimore

The FBI had yet to respond Monday morning to a request from Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday that it take over the police department’s investigation into the killing last month of Det. Sean Suiter.

The issue is not whether Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Mayor Catherine Pugh decided to put the Suiter investigation in the FBI's hands before or after two councilmen demanded it. The question is whether the public is getting the whole story about what's going on.

A full transcript of a Friday Baltimore Police Department press conference, in which Commissioner Kevin Davis details his decision to hand the investigation of Det. Sean Suiter's death to the FBI.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday asked the FBI to take over the investigation into the death of Det. Sean Suiter.

There is enough uncertainty and suspicion swirling around the investigation of Det. Sean Suiter to make the FBI, not the city police, the lead investigating agency.

Here's a prescription for what ails Baltimore's criminal justice system.

A look at Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's first year in office. Pugh came into office last December promising a series of initiatives, but the first year has been hampered by the city's crime rate.

A man fatally shot in Baltimore on Thursday was the city's 319th homicide victim of 2017, tipping the count beyond the 318 killings in Baltimore in all of 2016 with a month left to go in the year.

Baltimore Police on Thursday released body-camera footage showing a struggle between an officer and a suspect in South Baltimore that ended late Wednesday with the officer being shot in the hand and the suspect being subdued with a Taser.

Two Baltimore City leaders are calling for federal officials to take over the investigation into the killing of Det. Sean Suiter.

New charges have been filed by an indicted member of the Baltimore Police gun task force, alleging that in 2010 he planted drugs after a high-speed chase that ended with a death and told Det. Sean Suiter to search the car.

A Baltimore Police officer was shot in the hand in Cherry Hill Wednesday evening.

Rep. Elijah E. Cummings pressed the director of the FBI on Wednesday to make the investigation into slain Baltimore homicide detective Sean Suiter “a top priority” and called on the federal agency to “do everything” in its power to help.

Sean Suiter, the 43-year-old Baltimore homicide detective who was killed two weeks ago while investigating a triple-murder on the city’s west side, was remembered Wednesday at a funeral attended by thousands.

Crime stubbornly continued to rise in Baltimore, and major corruption scandals only served to increase the dismay of citizens who see police, city officials as helpless to do anything about it.

View a live stream of the funeral services for Baltimore Police Det. Sean Suiter.

Amid record violence in Baltimore, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan was asked whether he was confident in Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh's crime-fighting plan. He said that was a "tough question" because he didn't know there was a plan.

A viewing for slain Baltimore homicide Detective Sean Suiter was held Monday as the investigation into his death neared the two-week mark with no answers.

The effort to hold police officers accountable for Freddie Gray's death is over, but the quest to find justice for him has just begun.

Why does Maryland try so many juvenile offenders in adult court?

A closer look at the case of Umar Burley, who was arrested by indicted Sgt. Wayne Jenkins in a case that involved slain Det. Sean Suiter. Federal prosecutors have recently entered their appearance in the closed case.