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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’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.
Police temporarily deactivated a South Baltimore plainclothes crime unit amid supervisory changes and an ongoing internal investigation, a move that has sparked concerns among some community leaders.
A member of Safe Streets, Baltimore’s flagship antiviolence program, has been arrested in connection with a nonfatal shooting Sunday in North Baltimore, officials said.
Police in Maryland can no longer stop and search someone solely based on their suspicion that the person is carrying a gun, the state’s full appeals court ruled in a sweeping opinion that law enforcement agencies worry could curtail police practices statewide.
The Baltimore Police Department is betting on a unique concept to better serve residents with intellectual and developmental disabilities: a voluntary database for that population.
A new study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University found that Baltimore’s flagship violence intervention program, Safe Streets, was associated with a decrease in youth violence.
An 11-year-old was shot while playing on a playground in West Baltimore Wednesday night during an apparent drive-by shooting targeting a man who was also struck by gunfire, officials said.
Prosecutors will not charge a Baltimore SWAT sniper who in March fatally shot a man who fired at officers, hitting one, while holding women hostage in Northwest Baltimore.
Baltimore Police on Friday released body camera footage from last week’s fatal police shooting. The video showed a man running toward and shooting at officers before police returned fire.
A Navy veteran with post-traumatic stress disorder pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor on Thursday after she approached Baltimore Police officers with a knife before they shot her during a mental crisis in January.