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In a reversal, city to keep newly purchased police helicopter
Eighteen months after Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake voted to approve the purchase of four new helicopters for the Police Department, her proposed budget called for grounding one of them in a cost-saving move. But within days, the administration reversed...
Tags: Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Budgets and Budgeting
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City police planning new suspect identification process
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts said Thursday that he is planning to change the way police get eyewitnesses to pick out suspects, citing research that shows current techniques can lead to cases of mistaken identity. Batts said he wants...
Tags: Lawyers, Justice System, Witnesses, Prosecution, Crime, Law and Justice
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Baltimore officer indicted in police academy training shooting
The Baltimore police training supervisor who shot a recruit during an unauthorized training exercise last month will face criminal charges after being indicted Wednesday by a Baltimore County grand jury. William Scott Kern, 46, faces counts of second-...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Baltimore County, R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, Trials
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Maryland domestic violence killings expose cracks in system
Melissa Davis' husband had six domestic-violence arrests in less than a year of marriage, and was released by a judge on his own recognizance. Katie Hadel's ex-boyfriend was let out of jail early on good behavior. And Candace Hurt's husband had...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Crimes, Annapolis, Cofield
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Supporters mount campaign to preserve assault weapons ban
Gov. Martin O'Malley and gun-control advocates launched an offensive Thursday to protect his proposed ban on assault-type weapons from a House committee's efforts to scale it back. "Military-style assault weapons belong on the battlefield, NOT on the...
Tags: Shootings, Kevin C. Kelly, Firearms, Allegany County, Personal Weapon Control
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City police training academy director, appointed this week, to retire
Just three days after being touted as the commander who would oversee reforms in the wake of a training shooting, the new head of the Baltimore Police academy informed top brass Friday that he intends to leave the agency. Maj. Joseph E. Smith III, a 25-...Tags: Shootings, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Baltimore County, Montgomery County (Maryland)
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Batts: Police will rein in budget
The Baltimore Police Department has already gone over its overtime budget for the fiscal year, which ends in June, but Police Commissioner Anthony Batts says he will rein in the agency's spending. "We will be in budget at the end of the fiscal year....Tags: Budgets and Budgeting, Baltimore Police Department
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Three dead in West Baltimore shooting
A spate of violence in the city continued with a daylight shooting that left three people dead inside a West Baltimore apartment, as members of the City Council on Tuesday pressed police commanders to address a rise in killings and robberies. The Fulton...
Tags: Gang Activity, Crime, Law and Justice, Cherry Hill (Baltimore, Maryland), Murder, Druid Hill
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Oliver neighborhood flooded with emergency resources
Under heavy rain on a beat-up street in East Baltimore Tuesday, the heads of city government kicked off an intensive, weeklong program designed to address violence, drug trafficking and other stubborn problems that have plagued the Oliver neighborhood....
Tags: Safety of Citizens, Public Officials, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Home Improvement
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Community policing can help mend city
Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts has myriad issues to tackle as we delve deeper into 2013. Some priorities are the open air drug markets on our streets, the vacant housing issue (which has devoured many a city rowhouse), gangs,...
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Baltimore officer pleads guilty to armed drug conspiracy
To rack up arrests and look good for his bosses, Officer Kendell Richburg decided to ensure that his confidential informant could continue dealing drugs and funneling him information. He paid the unnamed informant with city funds, a standard procedure,...
Tags: FBI, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice, Firearms, Rod J. Rosenstein
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Six killings over weekend continue spike in city violence
Baltimore police moved Monday to increase foot patrols over the next month and conduct street sweeps of violent fugitives after a weekend that saw six people killed and continued a violent start to 2013. Baltimore has recorded 35 homicides this year, a...
Tags: Shootings, Crime, Law and Justice, Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Baltimore County, Murder
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