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Alex Mann
Alex Mann covers public safety in Baltimore for The Banner. Before joining The Banner, Alex was a reporter at The Baltimore Sun for more than four years, most recently covering criminal justice. He was a 2023 finalist for the Livingston Awards in local reporting. Earlier in his career, Alex wrote about cops and courts for The Capital in Annapolis and local government for the Carroll County Times. He is a graduate of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland.
Baltimore Police on Friday released body camera footage of an officer shooting and critically wounding a man after the man struck the officer with his car.
A Baltimore youth correctional officer admitted Thursday to slamming a child to the ground at the Baltimore City Juvenile Justice Center in 2025 and then lying about it.
A North Carolina man who was accused of urinating on a family, including an 8-year-old girl, at a Morgan Wallen concert in Baltimore last month has been extradited to Maryland, online court records show.
Violence in Maryland prisons, which have experienced amongst the highest homicide rates in America correctional facilities, has dropped precipitously since guards were equipped with body cameras for the first time, officials said.
Harrison Brandon, 28, of Baltimore, pleaded guilty to misconduct in office and received two years of probation. He was also ordered to perform 120 hours of community service.
While the city is experiencing historic declines in homicides and shootings, some residents say other low-level offenses persist at unacceptable levels and erode their quality of life.
Two Baltimore Police officers who fatally shot an apparently suicidal man who opened fire on them in May will not face criminal charges, Maryland Attorney General Anthony Brown announced.
Baltimore officials are hoping that a deploying a new, state-of-the-art police tool to officers across the city will result in them reaching for their guns and shooting people less often.
Baltimore’s growing approach to battling crime leverages group intervention and services to cut down on shootings and homicides, as new research shows significant declines.
Six Baltimore Police officers fired 70 shots at a man who appeared to lower his hand in the direction of what officers believed was a gun following an 18-minute police pursuit, officials said Friday.
The partner of the man shot by ICE in Glen Burnie on Christmas Eve spoke to The Banner about the anguish she and her sons feel as one of tens of thousands of families who have been separated under President Donald Trump’s sweeping immigration enforcement initiative.
Homicides were down 23% as of June 20, the most recent data Baltimore Police submitted to the FBI, with violence overall having decreased over the same timeframe.
Officials said a carjacking crew linked to a homicide was also responsible for a brazen string of crimes that stretched across the city for the better part of two months. The eight arrested so far are charged in connection to 39 crimes.