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Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa has resigned and a national search has been launched to find his replacement, Mayor Catherine Pugh’s office announced Tuesday.

Outgoing Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa, who resigned Tuesday, will not receive the same large severance package received by his two predecessors, who were fired “without cause” by the last two mayors, according to his contract.  But he will get other benefits.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa resigned Tuesday after being charged with failing to file federal income tax returns — ending a term that lasted just 116 days. But he doesn’t own the title of shortest tenure as Baltimore’s top cop.

Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh has placed Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa on paid leave pending the resolution of three federal criminal tax charges against him, she announced Friday.

Federal prosecutors say they have charged Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa with three misdemeanor counts of failing to file federal taxes.

Baltimore should point a finger at mayor and City Council, not police officers, for continuing crime wave.

A special team within the Baltimore Police Department designed to investigate cases in which officers use force or discharge their weapons has “shadowed” homicide detectives from the beginning of their investigation into the fatal shooting of Det. Sean Suiter, the department confirmed Wednesday.

Within weeks of taking over the Baltimore Police Department in January, Commissioner Darryl De Sousa had promised investigations or reviews into a slate of pressing issues. Months later, none of the investigations has been resolved, according to a police spokesman.

Bickering five months after the fact about who wanted to call in the FBI to investigate Sean Suiter's death is indicative of the degree to which politics and emotion have clouded this case.

Former Baltimore police commissioner Kevin Davis disputed Mayor Catherine Pugh’s assertion on Wednesday that she asked for the FBI to take over the homicide investigation of Det. Sean Suiter.

In Baltimore’s most crime-ridden zones, there’s an experiment in government going on. Under a plan instituted last year, city officials have targeted four areas — first called “Transformation Zones,” then rebranded as “Violence Reduction Zones’ — to be flooded with both police and city services.

Crime in Baltimore through the end of March was below that seen during the same period last year, continuing a downward trend in violence in recent months. Still, crime remains above five-year averages and bursts of gunfire marred the holiday weekend in the city.

The death of Baltimore Police Detective Sean Suiter is one of the only unsolved killings of a police officer in the department’s history. Now, new details emerge in the investigation of his death.

Gov. Larry Hogan attended an afternoon roll call for Baltimore police officers on Thursday to voice his support for them and the department, saying, “We’re going to have your back.”

Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa announced the integrity tests Wednesday during filming of the WJZ special “Baltimore Standing Together.” The hour-long panel highlighted work by community leaders, police and the mayor’s office to tamp down Baltimore’s persistent street violence.

The Baltimore City Council is expected to vote overwhelmingly to confirm new Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa at Monday night's meeting.

Mayor Catherine Pugh's office won't say whether she reviewed the internal affairs records of Darryl De Sousa, the veteran police officer she had picked to lead the Baltimore Police Department.

For months, company officials and community members have been pushing to build support around Baltimore to bring back the police surveillance plane, which has been grounded for months.

Acting Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa apologized Wednesday for the crimes of a corrupt police squad and promised members of the City Council the scandal won’t happen under his watch.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa has decided to bring in an outside consultant to review the killing last year of Det. Sean Suiter, police officials confirmed Thursday.

With the federal prosecution of the Gun Trace Task Force in Baltimore concluding, an obvious question remains: What is being done to prevent more police corruption in the future? The answer is a lot, though the efficacy of the efforts is still to be seen.

Acting Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa has filled his top command staff with veteran Baltimore cops — including a handful of retirees he recruited to return — who he said will restore lost pride in the troubled department while also steering it to a better future.

The independent team monitoring Baltimore’s compliance with a federal consent decree mandating sweeping police reforms is “closely following” the Gun Trace Task Force trial and other recent events riling the police department, according to Kenneth Thompson, the team’s leader.

The unsolved homicide of a Baltimore Police homicide detective in our long season of dreadful developments.

At least a dozen other Baltimore police officers and an assistant state’s attorney also participated in crimes or helped cover them up as they floated in and out of the Gun Trace Task Force unit's orbit, according to GTTF members' testimony and comments from federal prosecutors in the ongoing case.

The Baltimore City Council will hold a televised confirmation hearing for new Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa on Feb. 21.

Deputy Baltimore Police Commissioner Dean Palmere is retiring, he said Monday, the same day as testimony in the Gun Trace Task Force trial alleging he coached an officer on what to say to avoid punishment after a 2009 shooting. Palmere denied the allegation, and said his retirement is unrelated.

Baltimore police Detective Sean Suiter died after being shot while on duty in November — one day before he was set to testify before a federal grand jury in the corruption case involving the department’s Gun Trace Task Force.

A significant number of Baltimore Police academy recruits set to graduate and become cops on Saturday lack a basic understanding of the laws governing constitutional policing and are being pushed through by the department anyway, according to the academy’s head of legal instruction.

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

Was Mayor Catherine Pugh correct when she said in December that things were “trending in the right direction” in Baltimore crime-wise?

The Sun was wrong to call attention to shooting over which new police commissioner was held blameless.

Acting Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa is considering putting plainclothes officers back onto the streets of Baltimore to search for guns and drugs, he said.

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.

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.

An accounting of public statements by then-Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis following the release last year of several police body camera videos that defense attorneys said showed officers planting drugs.

A grand jury has indicted a Baltimore Police officer on charges of misconduct and tampering with evidence in connection with a body camera video that surfaced last year that the public defender’s office said showed him planting drugs.

Mayor's decision to fire Kevin Davis wasn't overdue, it was out of the blue - and ineffective.

Two top-ranking Baltimore police officials in charge of implementing reforms and the city’s consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice have both resigned following the mayor’s firing of the police commissioner last week.

One day before he was fired, Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis told reporters that departments around the country must partner to share methods, embrace technology and focus efforts on repeat offenders.

Two Baltimore Police officers charged in perhaps the biggest corruption scandal in the agency’s history go on trial Monday in U.S. District Court, The Gun Trace Task Force trial is likely to add new details — and raise new questions.

The new police commissioner's job will be impossible, too, but this time failure is not an option.

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

Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis was let go this morning by Mayor Catherine Pugh. It was the right call.

Davis' tenure with the Baltimore Police Department included several notable events, from the death of Freddie Gray to the federal indictment of officers involved in the Gun Trace Task Force.

Mayor Catherine Pugh replaced police commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday, citing the need to get a handle on Baltimore’s record levels of violence.

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.

Defense attorney and former prosecutor Ivan Bates is among those challenging Marilyn Mosby in the June Democratic primary for Baltimore state's attorney.

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.