Michael S. Harrison

The city's top cop talks about how his department is battling Baltimore's relentless crime problem, and confronting the legacy of corruption in the BPD's recent past.

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.

In barely 24 hours, Baltimore lost its lead on one new police commissioner, but gained another. Joel Fitzgerald, the chief of police in Fort Worth, Texas,…