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Foot patrols aren't a strategy for reducing gun crime
Rounding up the usual suspects and putting officers on foot patrol for a few weeks are desperate moves by the Baltimore Police Department to temporarily shut down gun homicides before the nice weather arrives and street crime picks up with a vengeance ("6...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice
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Baltimore firefighters free victim from burning car
A man fled from police and crashed his car blocks away Thursday, leaving him trapped in the burning vehicle after it rolled over, Baltimore police said. The man, whom police did not identify, was in "very critical" condition a few hours after the crash,...
Tags: R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center
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MdTA's acting police chief gets permanent assignment
Michael Kundrat, a Carroll County native and 26-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, has been named chief of the Maryland Transportation Authority Police. Kundrat, 53, who has been acting MdTA chief for 18 months, was selected from a field of...
Tags: Harford County, Port of Baltimore, BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport, Carroll County (Maryland)
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Baltimore man arrested in December stabbings outside Dark Horse in Bel Air
Bel Air police have arrested a man wanted in connection with a stabbing that wounded two people in a parking lot outside the Dark Horse Saloon Dec. 1. Tyron Lee Fuqua, 33, of the 1800 block of North Wolfe Street in Baltimore, was picked up Friday in...Tags: Bel Air (Allegany, Maryland), Harford County, Bel Air (Harford, Maryland), Prosecution
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Injured campus officer identified, has limited communication
A police recruit wounded in a training exercise can respond through hand signals but remains hospitalized with an unclear path to recovery, said a Baltimore attorney representing the officer. State police identified the injured officer candidate on...
Tags: University of Maryland, College Park, Colleges and Universities, Injuries and Wounds, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Anthony W. Batts
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Police didn't have approval to use Rosewood for training
Baltimore police did not have permission to conduct training exercises at the shuttered state facility for the developmentally disabled where an officer was shot and critically wounded, according to Maryland health officials. "As far as we can tell,...
Tags: Injuries and Wounds, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Anthony W. Batts, Baltimore County, Health
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Batts to address police recruits; selects new training academy director
Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts replaced the head of the department’s training academy Monday, as the agency seeks to address safety lapses and restore public confidence following the accidental shooting last week of a trainee. Batts...
Tags: Johns Hopkins University, Injuries and Wounds, Montgomery County (Maryland), Frederick H. Bealefeld, III, Anthony W. Batts
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Missteps in trainee shooting ran afoul of standards, experts say
The director of Baltimore's police training academy didn't know that instructors were holding exercises at an abandoned psychiatric hospital in Owings Mills. There were no supervisors on site. A police service weapon somehow got mixed up with a practice...
Tags: Physical Fitness and Exercise, Montgomery County (Maryland), Weaponry, Science and Technology, Law Enforcement
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Police refuse to release training policies after shooting
The Baltimore Police Department said it will not release policies and procedures related to training exercises, even after being told by a federal judge last week that its policies are not protected from public disclosure. In response to a request from...
Tags: Judges, American Civil Liberties Union, Justice System, Crime, Law and Justice
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Maryland police seek federal help to take ill-gotten gains
Gay Lynn Diffenderffer had no idea that her husband was growing marijuana at their Baltimore County home, her attorney says, until state police investigating his mysterious disappearance discovered about 100 plants in a locked basement. Two weeks later,...
Tags: U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Environmental Issues, Law Enforcement, Baltimore County, Maryland State Police
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Prepared text of Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake's State of the City Address 2013
Mr. President, Madam Comptroller, Senators and Delegates, members of the City Council, clergy, colleagues in public service, committed people of Baltimore—thank you for the opportunity to report on the progress of our city and to renew our...
Tags: Lobbying, Highway Transportation, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Environmental Issues, Charm City Circulator
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Hammer-wielding man arrested outside City Hall, police say
A man holding a hammer was arrested Friday outside City Hall after he made a series of threats against police officers, a Baltimore Police Department spokesman said. Shortly after noon, officers arrested the 28-year-old man, who is from Flint Hill, Va.,...
Tags: Politics, Lobbying
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