Tag: police
Is Baltimore’s Murder Rate a Sign that We St...
By Chris Anderson | December 31, 2022 | Commentary | 1 |
Hogan: ‘Enough is enough. We cannot defund t...
By Bryan Renbaum | October 18, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
Hogan announces $150 million initiative to increas...
By Bryan Renbaum | October 15, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
The Nearsightedness of Baltimore City Government
By Les Cohen | July 7, 2021 | Commentary | 0 |
Bill could make Maryland police discipline records...
By Capital News Service | February 4, 2021 | General Assembly | 0 |
Family of teen killed in police custody in 2018 awarded $200,000 settlement
by Capital News Service | November 8, 2023 | News | 0 |
The Board of Public Works on Wednesday approved a $235,000 settlement to resolve a lawsuit brought by the family of Anton Black, the Eastern Shore teenager who died in 2018 after being restrained by police, against the Office of the Chief Medical Examiner.
Read MoreIs Baltimore’s Murder Rate a Sign that We Stopped Caring?
by Chris Anderson | December 31, 2022 | Commentary | 1 |
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.
Read MoreHogan: ‘Enough is enough. We cannot defund the police.’
by Bryan Renbaum | October 18, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
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.”
Read MoreHogan announces $150 million initiative to increase support for police, victims services
by Bryan Renbaum | October 15, 2021 | Governor, News | 0 |
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.
Read MoreThe Nearsightedness of Baltimore City Government
by Les Cohen | July 7, 2021 | Commentary | 0 |
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.
Read MoreBill could make Maryland police discipline records public
by Capital News Service | February 4, 2021 | General Assembly | 0 |
Maryland legislators have introduced a bill that could allow public access to police officers’ disciplinary records.
HB0120, the reintroduction of Anton’s Law, sponsored by Del. Gabriel Acevero, D-Montgomery and Del. Erek L. Barron, D-Prince George’s, aims to increase the transparency associated with police misconduct investigations, allowing the public to better understand how complaints against police are carried out.
Read MoreProtecting the mental health of Maryland police officers
by Capital News Service | January 21, 2021 | General Assembly | 0 |
Maryland police officers who are dealing with stressors — such as family issues, substance abuse or mass protests — will have access to confidential mental health aid under a bill progressing in the state Legislature.
Read MoreState Roundup: Sides may be uniting on some possible police reform; 100 arrested in O.C.
by Cynthia Prairie | September 28, 2020 | State Roundup | 0 |
Despite state senators’ disagreement, sides may be uniting on some possible police reform,
Read MoreLet’s ensure police are accountable to communities
by Joe Perez | March 10, 2020 | Commentary | 0 |
The public should have the right to know whether all complaints of misconduct are adequately investigated, and police departments should be transparent in their investigations.
Read MoreBill seeks to extend racial reporting of traffic stops
by Len Lazarick | January 21, 2011 | News | 1 |
Sen. Lisa Gladden wants to renew race-based reporting on Maryland’s traffic stops, but Sen. Nancy Jacobs, a fellow member of the Judicial Proceedings Committee, said it would create more work for law enforcement for no reason.
The bill would continue the reporting statute that went into effect nine years ago, “when race-based traffic stops was a major issue across the state,” Gladden, a Democrat from Baltimore City, told the committee Thursday. The statute expired last year.
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