De-policing is an outcome — it is the direct result of protesters, politicians, and the press applying enormous pressure on police to do less policing — in which the obvious end state is an increase in violent crime.
Read More →A police spokesman said Sergeant Larry Worsley was off duty when his department-issued Dodge Charger struck several unoccupied parked vehicles in Northeast Baltimore.
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Police are investigating an officer who reportedly failed to respond to a man-with-a-gun call.
Read More →A Maryland teenager will be held without bail after allegedly driving a stolen Jeep over a police cruiser's hood in an attempt to evade officers.
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In the weeks after the death of 25-year-old Freddie Gray — who fell into a coma after being transported in a police van, handcuffed but not seat-belted — the number of "on-view" incidents and street contacts reported by police plummeted.
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The accused gunman in the mass shooting at a Maryland newspaper sent three threatening letters before the attack.
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The 38-year-old suspected shooter had a history with the paper, filing a defamation suit against it in 2012.
Read More →Phil Davis, a Capital Gazette crime reporter who was there at the time of the shooting, said that multiple people had been shot, as others — himself included — hid under their desks. He said there was a lone male gunman.
Read More →The National Law Enforcement Museum at the Motorola Solutions Foundation Building, in partnership with the Charleston, S.C.- based Illumination Project, launched the Affinity Project—a nationwide program designed to strengthen the relationships between law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Read More →Maryland prosecutors have asked police to not release body camera video footage that shows 41-year-old Robert White knock Officer Anand Badgujar to the ground and stand over him as the officer fatally shot the assailant.
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