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History Repeats: How the Laken Riley Act Revives Failed Crime Policies
Baltimore City knows all too well the consequences of zero-tolerance crime policies. Mass stop-and-frisks, discriminatory arrests, and a complete breakdown in trust between law enforcement and the Black community defined Maryland’s previous approach to crime.
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Joint Republican Caucus Public Safety Agenda
Maryland’s budget deficit looms large as the major issue of the 2025 Legislative Session, and rightly so. While the members of the Joint Republican Caucus are ready to offer solutions to our budget challenges and fight back against tax and fee increases, this will not be our sole focus this session. As we have done in the past, the members of the House and Senate Minority Caucuses will offer common-sense legislation that will make our communities safer.
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Democratic lawmakers plan to crack down on youth crime in the coming weeks
Children as young as 10 could potentially go to court for auto thefts and handgun violations, under one proposal key Democratic lawmakers detailed on Wednesday and plan to push for in coming weeks.
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Problems persist in juvenile services schooling 2 years after transfer from Education Department
The graduate’s mom, peers and teachers knew he was going to reach his goal, though his principal, Todd Rasher, said the other students incarcerated at the Victor Cullen Center in rural northern Frederick County didn’t see “all the footwork” it took to earn his GED.
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House Republican Caucus introduces legislative package to reduce crime, improve education and restore the state’s economy
The House Republican Caucus has introduced a legislative package of reasonable, common-sense solutions to help address these challenges. Our legislative package focuses on topics that matter most to Marylanders: reducing crime, improving education, and restoring our economy.
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Moore budget release begins new governor’s focus on equity
Gov. Wes Moore highlighted significant investments in education, transportation, economic development, public safety and health in releasing his administration’s first budget on Friday.
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Is Baltimore’s Murder Rate a Sign that We Stopped Caring?
The names on The Baltimore Sun homicide webpage are listed chronologically but have no features that stand out. Beside each name is an age, a gender, an address, and a race. Most of the names are those of young men in their 20s, Black, and dying somewhere in Baltimore’s Black butterfly.
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Fast Cars and Bad Policies: How Game Changer Programs Hurt Working-Class Baltimoreans
The new talk of the town is governor-elect Wes Moore’s baby bonds program. Throughout his campaign, Moore pitched the baby bonds program as a way to ensure that infants born in poverty arrive at adulthood in a more equal economic situation as their wealthier peers. With this program, every child born in Medicaid—largely Black and Latino–could get $3,200.
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Schulz, Franchot, Gansler tackle violent crime, and how to prevent mass shootings
Violent crime is on the rise throughout Maryland.
Last week saw a gunman open fire in a Smithsburg factory killing three and injuring four others.
The year is not yet even half over and already there have been more than 150 homicides in Baltimore, mostly by shooting, according to the Baltimore Police Department. That trend puts Baltimore on pace to surpass more than 300 homicides by the end of the year, which has been the case since at least 2017.
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Hogan: ‘Enough is enough. We cannot defund the police.’
The governor added: “Thinking that you can improve law enforcement by defunding the police is like saying that you want to improve education by defunding the schools. It is absurd. It is ridiculous.”
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Hogan announces $150 million initiative to increase support for police, victims services
Gov. Larry Hogan Friday unveiled an $150 million initiative aimed at providing additional support for the state’s law enforcement agencies and victims of violent crime.
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The Nearsightedness of Baltimore City Government
If you’re like me, you watch one of the local Baltimore news stations when you’re putting on your jammies at the end of a long day. With luck and cool sheets, you’ll be asleep before you hear the lead stories about murder and mayhem in the big city.
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