Violence Reduction Plan

The city held its annual Vigil of Remembrance to speak the names of the dead and honor those lost to homicide, overdose, and suicide. This year was the first time it had been held fully in-person since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

That work will continue after the 45-day response through the help of community partnerships.

Baltimore City Mayor Brandon Scott's Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, or MONSE, leaders say the dashboard will help tailor an evidence-based approach to tackle violence mostly against women.

Panelists during The Baltimore Curriculum Project-led symposium said that both students and staff need conflict resolution training and de-escalation strategies to curb violence in schools.

The concept encourages students to use nonviolent conflict resolution methods and was already piloted in Baltimore, officials said.

The city's former interim police commissioner discusses his recent appointment by Mayor Scott as Deputy Mayor for Public Safety, and the crime-fighting priorities in his new role.

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.

About 75 of Baltimore’s Group Violence Reduction Strategy partners, a critical component of Mayor Brandon Scott’s crime plan, are to meet for the first time on Monday.

We talk with a Safe Streets violence interruptor and leaders of MONSE about new efforts to curb the city's epidemic of violence.

The Baltimore native and former CEO of EVOLVE to Lead describes her urgent new mission leading the Mayor's city-wide violence reduction campaign.