Criminal justice

Baltimore is seeing fewer murders than in recent years, but many residents say the city doesn’t feel any safer, and they express a lack of confidence in the ability of city leaders to reduce violent crime, Goucher College political scientist Mileah Kromer says.

Since stepping down as police commissioner this summer, Michael Harrison has consulted in Memphis and New Orleans, and may soon be in Chicago and Minneapolis.

A jury is deliberating whether to convict Joseph Black for accelerating his car during a 2022 traffic stop, dragging Det. Sgt. Kenneth Ramberg and seriously injuring him.

A Dunbar High School student was arrested for a handgun violation on Wednesday, school officials say.

Tristan Jackson, an 18-year-old charged in last summer’s Brooklyn Day mass shooting, has been ordered to be transferred from an adult jail to a juvenile facility.

A federal judge on Wednesday turned away an initial attack on the use of race as a factor in admissions at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, saying it is unclear if the policy is illegal under a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision.

A man has been charged with the fatal shooting of his two-year-old daughter Sunday in Northwest Baltimore.

The lawsuit seeks five years of ATF “trace data,” which shows where a gun recovered by police or other officers was manufactured to where it was sold at retail.

The Maryland Attorney General’s Office is investigating the circumstances of the 21-year-old man’s encounter with police.

The young girl was taken to a local hospital where, despite medical efforts, she died, according to police.

Multiple threats prompted the U.S. Naval Academy to close its gates to the public for several hours Saturday, a situation cleared by midafternoon, authorities said.

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office had taken a “two-faced position” that is “at odds with justice” in its efforts to preserve the conviction of a man arrested by a member of the Gun Trace Task Force.

A crash involving a fire truck sent multiple people to the emergency room around 8 p.m. Friday.

Keith Luckey, 40, of Baltimore County, stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges including second-degree murder in the killing of Kevin Torres, which happened outside ChrisT bar, on East Lombard Street near South Haven Street in Highlandtown, on Nov. 7, 2022. He was 35.

“I think of what she could have done with her life,” said Joyce Malecki’s brother, Darryl, as he discussed the FBI exhuming her body Thursday. He hopes there will soon be a break in the 1969 killing, which was investigated in the Netflix series, “The Keepers.”

Michael Tates, a security guard at ChrisT, a club on East Lombard Street near South Haven Street in Highlandtown, testified on Thursday in Baltimore Circuit Court about what led up to the deadly shooting of Kevin Torres on Nov. 7, 2022.

A former teacher remembers what it was like being in the classroom a week after 26 people were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary in Connecticut on Dec. 14, 2012.

The FBI announced Thursday that it had completed the exhumation of Joyce Malecki from Loudon Park Cemetery. The Netflix documentary “The Keepers” explored whether Malecki’s murder was connected to the killing of Sister Cathy Cesnik in the early 1970s.

Police arrested a man in connection to the August crash that took the life of Robert Horne, who had pulled over on the elevated highway to assist with a disabled vehicle.

More than three dozen men, identified only by their initials, filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the state and the Department of Juvenile Services, alleging they were sexually abused as young boys while in the custody of the Charles H. Hickey Jr. School in Parkville.