Baltimore City Police Department

Baltimore's top cop takes our questions about the city's latest anti-crime initiatives, a new crime-data reporting system, and the outlook for BPD funding increases.

A city councilman, a prominent businessman and a strip-club owner discuss a state measure to fight crime in the city by imposing a 10pm curfew on strip clubs on a stretch of E. Baltimore Street.

The Baltimore Banner investigative reporter discusses the new report on the BPD Gun Trace Task Force, and the latest on State's Attorney Mosby's federal indictment.

Cases of domestic violence have gone up during the pandemic.

Filmmaker Sonja Sohn discusses her decision to spotlight the case of Detective Sean Suiter and the culture of corruption in the Baltimore Police Department.

As city homicides top 300 for the 7th straight year, Baltimore's top cop discusses bold new strategies to curb the violence.

The director of the Citizens Policing Project reflects on city plans to gain full control of its state-run police department.

The city's top prosecutor discusses BPD trust issues and her work with the Mid-Atlantic Innocence Project freeing the wrongfully imprisoned.

Mayor Brandon Scott pledged to lower gun violence in Baltimore by 15% every year for the next five years in a crime plan released Friday morning. He says the city can get there by expanding violence intervention programs such as Safe Streets, bolstering gun trafficking investigations and improving collaboration among city agencies.

Baltimore’s spending board unanimously approved Wednesday a $525,000 settlement for a man who spent years in prison after an encounter with the Gun Trace Force, the infamous rogue Baltimore City Police Department unit.