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Outside his apartment window, Samuel Savoy heard gunshots and saw a man standing with a large gun facing officers, telling the man to put the gun down.

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I need only look to Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to understand why there will never be a dirt bike park in Baltimore. Announcing the creation of a task force to address illegal dirt bike riding in the city, he recently called dirt bike riders, many of them kids, "gun-toting criminals."

The Baltimore Police Department's "new" use-of-force policy is largely a repackaging of existing policies that have been haphazardly followed at best, says a former sergeant.

Gun control rally brought protesters and media but where were ordinary citizens?

It may not be perfect, but the Baltimore Police Department's new use of force policy is a huge step forward.

Police have yet to identify a suspect in the fatal shooting of the popular Baltimore rapper Lor Scoota, according to a spokesman.

On Pennsylvania Avenue last night, silver balloons that spell out "Scoota" reflect the flashing light of police cars. A long line of about 30 police officers

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis issued a statement Saturday denouncing the city's police union for a series of posts on social media overnight.

The Baltimore Police Department forced a West Baltimore gas station to close this week using a controversial city law — not used in years — that allows the "padlocking" of businesses deemed complicit in crime.

A 25-year-old Baltimore man arrested last week after exchanging gunfire with police officers has since been charged in the fatal shooting the day prior of 13-year-old DiAndre Barnes, Baltimore Police officials said Monday.

Baltimore emergency officials scrambled for more than an hour to come up with a way to tell the public that the city's 911 system was out of service Tuesday night, internal emails obtained by the Baltimore Sun show.

Baltimore police have an arrest warrant for an 18-year-old wanted in the robbery of a Frederick Douglass High School student who was on his way to pick up his cap and gown earlier this month.

Police Commissioner Kevin Davis announced Monday night the department was offering security assessments to the city's gay bars and nightclubs after the massacre early Sunday in Orlando, Florida.

Hundreds of people attend a vigil Monday night in Station North for the 49 people killed and dozens injured when a gunman opened fire in an Orlando gay club Sunday.

CSX crews began uncoupling and removing train cars from the Howard Street Tunnel in Baltimore Monday evening, starting the process of clearing the derailment that shut down freight traffic through the city earlier in the day.

Even after one of the deadliest year in Baltimore's history, violent crime is up this year. And in recent weeks, Baltimoreans have seen a spate of particularly frightening crimes that have risen above the usual drumbeat of daily crime in the city.

Soon after the Orlando nightclub gunman opened fire early Sunday, Hippodrome Theatre President Ron Legler began receiving text messages from friends and former

David Warren, the man charged with the attempted murder of five people during a Memorial Day cookout, has a criminal record that spans the service of three Baltimore mayors, four Baltimore police commissioners and three Baltimore state's attorneys. And Warren won't turn 24 until Wednesday.

City would see fewer attacks on elderly if they were allowed to carry a gun

Mosby overcharged officers in Freddie Gray case

David Warren, 23, is charged with five counts of attempted murder in the North Baltimore shooting that occurred during a Memorial Day cookout.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake held a meeting Tuesday night and urged neighbors to come forward with information about recent crimes against three women in Northwest Baltimore.

Police talked with residents on Tuesday afternoon, hoping to gather more info on a Saturday morning robbery and sexual assault of a 71-year-old woman.

New software being rolled out by the Baltimore Police Department this summer will streamline its dissemination of policies and training and track receipt of such information by rank-and-file officers, the department said Tuesday.

Area politicians, civic leaders and others weigh in on the not guilty verdict handed down Monday morning in the case against Officer Edward Nero

Mental health screenings for many prospective Baltimore police officers were far shorter than required by a city contract with the psychology firm hired to conduct the exams, an investigation by the city's inspector general has found.

Six Baltimore teenagers have been arrested in a recent spree of "bump and run" style car thefts throughout the city, police said.

The rollout of an $11.6 million program to equip 2,500 Baltimore police officers with body cameras to help bring transparency to the department which has struggled with community relations has been delayed.

At the very moment that Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and Police Commissioner Kevin Davis were gathered in west Baltimore, near Mondawmin Mall speaking about healingon the anniversary of the riots, police in east Baltimore were chasing a 14-year-old with a realistic-looking BB gun who, after refusing to drop it, was shot in the shoulder and leg.

A young police officer followed his training when he shot through the window of his patrol car at a suspect who was pointing a gun at him Sunday morning, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said Monday.

Cops need to see black kids as kids. We grownup civilians need to see black kids as kids and exercise our adult privilege to drop some wisdom on them before they put themselves in harm's way. A kid with a basketball in one hand and a BB gun in the other should end up at the recreation center — not hospital or, worse, the grave.

Chief Davis asks the right question: What if Dedric Colvin had been white?

A Baltimore police officer sitting in his patrol car shot and critically wounded a man who came up to him pointing a 9mm handgun, police said Sunday.

The boy shot by a plainclothes Baltimore police officer this week after the officer mistook a BB gun he had for a real firearm will not be charged with any crime, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis said during a panel discussion at Morgan State University on Saturday. Dedric Colvin's mother, Volanda Young, also will not be charged with any crime, Davis said.

Rep. Elijah Cummings called Donald Trump "dangerous" and said during a journalism conference in Baltimore on Saturday that the leading Republican candidate "turns us as Americans against each other."

Baltimore police have charged a 25-year-old Elkridge man with arson and reckless endangerment after he strode into a Baltimore television station Thursday afternoon dressed in an animal costume and wearing what police suspected at the time was an explosive device.

Two days after a Baltimore police officer shot a teenager who was carrying a BB gun, two dozen activists gathered at the spot where he was wounded.

A man dressed in an animal costume and wearing what police suspected was an explosive device strode into a Baltimore television station Thursday afternoon and,

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis defended Thursday the actions of the officer who shot a 14-year-old boy as he ran with a BB gun, saying officers

"This is a police response to a person seen in broad daylight with a gun in his hand in the middle of the street."

Catherine Pugh, the Democratic nominee for mayor in Baltimore, says she would retain Kevin Davis as the city's police commissioner. Is that a good move?

State Sen. Catherine E. Pugh wants Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Health Commissioner Leana Wen to join her administration, the Democratic nominee for mayor said Wednesday.

This was supposed to be the Day of Reconciliation.

A high-ranking Baltimore police union official who was reassigned to an overnight security detail in January after engaging in a series of arguments with local activists on Twitter has filed a federal lawsuit against the Baltimore Police Department and Commissioner Kevin Davis, alleging his reassignment and the department's social media policy governing officers' activities online are unconstitutional.

On the one-year anniversary of Freddie Gray's death, Police Commissioner Kevin Davis sat in his southeast corner office at Baltimore Police Department

One tumultuous year has passed since anger over the death of Freddie Gray from spinal injuries suffered in police custody erupted into rioting. During that time, a virtual microscope has been trained on Baltimore in search of the larger meaning of that day: April 27, 2015.

Dozens of residents, protesters, rioters, officials, members of the clergy and city leaders landed in the national spotlight.

Baltimore police on Saturday identified a man shot to death by an off-duty police officer during an attempted robbery inside a West Baltimore liquor store.

Last August, a 25-minute police chase touched off across three jurisdictions when patrol officers saw a distressed woman inside a car whose driver fled when they attempted to pull it over. The pursuit was carried live by broadcast networks, and ended dramatically when the vehicle crashed into a Southwest Baltimore home and a detective, clad in an all-white suit, placed the driver under arrest. But the court case for the two men in the vehicle, Robert Bethea and Mark Jackson, concluded a whimper.