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Three killed, one critically wounded in Northeast Baltimore quadruple shooting
Mayor Brandon Scott called the scene “one of the most disgusting things I’ve seen in my time in elected office.”
Is Safe Streets working? Hopkins study finds significant impacts to gun violence, despite other challenges
Safe Streets outposts reduced nearby homicides and nonfatal shootings by an average of 16% to 23%, with larger reductions in homicides during the first four years of the longer-running sites.
In state prisons and Baltimore jails, trans people choose between harassment or confinement
Trans prisoners in Maryland facilities can spend entire days locked in cells and without programming or other ways to occupy their time, an environment the United Nations compared to torture.
Less than half of Maryland jails comply with opioid-addiction treatment law meant to save lives
The first-in-the-nation law required all Maryland jails to have opioid treatment programs in place by January.
Local control advocates reject new compromise limiting Baltimore City Council authority over police department
A coalition of police reform advocated rejected a last-minute effort to shield some of the powers held by Baltimore’s police commissioner.
Nearly one in three people shot in 2023 were 18 or under as gun violence flares near schools
A spike in youth gunshot victims is worsening even as nonfatal shootings and homicides are down.
City Council, activists push mayor to complete local takeover of police department this year
The need for additional state legislation means local control might not be completed until 2024.
Police charge 16-year-old with murder in mass shooting at Edmondson Village Shopping Center
The Jan. 4 shooting also wounded two 17-year-old males and two 18-year-old males.
Internal emails detail pressure state police troopers faced to drive up traffic ticket numbers
Communications also raise questions about the agency’s contention that the “expectations” system doesn’t function as a quota.
Leaked docs: State police use quota-like system to reward arrests, issue new vehicles
“I just pulled the last 6 months of stats to help determine who is getting a new car,” an internal state police email read.
Another man died in Baltimore’s sprawling jail system. Did he get the care he needed?
Days after suffering a medical emergency, Deandre Whitehead reported that he had still not seen a doctor, according to his attorney.
Woman arrested in connection to fatal shooting of 15-year-old NyKayla Strawder
The woman is charged with reckless endangerment, and two charges related to a minor gaining access to a firearm.
Is the Baltimore Police Department de-escalating too much? Consent decree judge wants to know
The judge described it as a "very awkward, even ugly question."
What caused a 33% drop in gun violence in West Baltimore last year? We analyzed it
A Banner analysis of a revived Group Violence Reduction Strategy in the Western District suggests remarkable impacts.
Another death tied to Baltimore Central Booking as troubles mount at state-run jail
Family members of 37-year-old Chase Williams said he was found unresponsive somewhere in the facility on Tuesday, about two hours after he was booked into it.
He spent a decade on death row. Now John Huffington’s name is cleared, thanks to a pardon.
Republican Gov. Larry Hogan pardoned Huffington, who was wrongfully convicted of the 1981 double murder of Diana Becker and Joe Hudson in Harford County.
Complaints against Baltimore police officers grow as new accountability board takes shape
Baltimore will be one of the last police accountability boards in the state to get up and running.
Two students shot near Benjamin Franklin High School
Two people were shot near Benjamin Franklin High School in Curtis Bay
Changes needed at Edmondson Village shopping strip, says family of 16-year-old killed there
Baltimore Police on Thursday identified the teen who was fatally shot Wednesday as Deanta Dorsey.