Maryland Public Defender Natasha Dartigue on Wednesday discussed with Baltimore residents ways to keep decreasing violent ...

Murders have steeply declined and the mayor calls Baltimore “the model for violence reduction,” but what does it mean that arrests for murder have largely stayed the same for two decades?

Baltimore City State’s Attorney Ivan Bates is asking the city to fund its division that reviews body camera footage, which he ...

Erricka Bridgeford of Baltimore Peace Movement ... adding that media stories about crime outweigh the statistics. “It immediately undermines any effect those crime numbers have and reinforces ...

Baltimore has recorded more than 300 homicides and more than 600 non-fatal shootings so far this year, according to statistics released ... comes to fighting violent crime."I will be the first ...

BALTIMORE (WBFF) — 2023 started out with 26 people killed in the city of Baltimore. That number matches the number of people killed in January of 2019. For eight straight years, the city of ...

The overall violent crime rate, which includes murder ... NPR spoke to three local reporters — from Baltimore, San Francisco and Minneapolis — to better understand what is happening in ...

As I meet people from around the state, it’s clear that everyone is aware of our city’s depressingly high murder rate. Indeed, most seem to feel that between crime and population decline, the ...

By the 2024 election, for the first time in awhile, violent crime was a major political issue in the US. A Pew survey that year found that 58 percent of Americans believed crime should be a top ...

“A renaissance” is what Baltimore’s mayor says is underway in the city, yet troubling crime rates, fleeing residents, and thousands of vacant homes are leading observers to wonder where he purchased ...

Crime in Baltimore and beyond has become a top issue ... the country as cities face upticks in gun violence and homicide rates, squeezing Democrats caught between promises of advancing social ...