Baltimore City Police Department

The five indictments announced Tuesday range from assault, misconduct, excessive force and theft.

The audit released Monday from the Office of Legislative Audits, a nonpartisan state financial watchdog agency, reflects an 18-month time period from December 2020 through June 2022. In a statement, a BPD spokesperson said the department “has made much progress over the last three years to create a system of accountability and oversight.”

“Right now, we're not able to know if there's one gun store responsible for a disproportionate number of the guns flowing into our city, or if there's one area where trafficking guns is more common than others.”

“This is actually a pretty boring and straightforward and obvious structure for the police department. We were trying to avoid as many of the landmines as possible.”

“We have overwhelmingly proven that we can lead ourselves.”

The new Baltimore City Police Commissioner Richard Worley joins Tom to discuss his plans for the police department including his goals for group violence reduction strategies and youth crime.

Commissioner Worley said they did recover a handgun with an extended magazine at the scene but they do not know yet if the weapon was fired.

The families of two people killed and two people injured in the July shooting in the Brooklyn Homes community are planning to sue the city and state over the incident.

The results of the second community survey, mandated by the Baltimore Police Department’s federal court oversight, suggest that residents’ attitudes toward local law enforcement remain dismal, despite widespread reforms.

Alfred Chestnut, Andrew Stewart and Ransom Watkins were exonerated of murder in 2019 after each spending 36 years in prison. Each individual will receive $14.9 million with $3.3 million of that going to the attorneys.