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To reduce homicides, offer cash for tips about illegal handguns
Firearms, particularly handguns, drive violent crime in Baltimore, yet nowhere does the word handgun appear in your recent editorial on this year's uptick in Baltimore homicides ("Troubling homicide rise," Dec. 28). Obviously, whatever the Baltimore...Tags: Firearms, Murder
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Drugs, metal thefts plague Washington County in 2012
Editor’s note: As we usher out 2012 and welcome 2013, The Herald-Mail has prepared a package of year-end stories that provide short recaps of some of the top stories of the year past. These stories will be published each day through New Year’s...
Tags: Wildlife, Industrial Production, Punishment, Drug Trafficking, Trials
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State troopers helping city police patrol high-crime areas
Baltimore police have enlisted state troopers to help with patrols as the city confronts a spike in crime, a move that puts to an end years of disagreement between the two agencies over the state force's role in local law enforcement. With the Maryland...
Tags: Robert L. Ehrlich Jr., Justice System, Executive Branch, Bars and Clubs, Elections
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Bealefeld: What we must do about gun violence
After 31 years in local law enforcement, I'd often tell myself that I had seen and experienced every act of cruelty man can inflict. In light of the despicable act of violence this month in Newtown, Conn., I was clearly wrong. We are learning more,...Tags: Interior Policy, Behavioral Conditions, Separation of Church and State, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Politics
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City adds more crime cameras, this time in Midtown
Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced that 12 new surveillance cameras will be installed along Charles Street in Midtown. "The CitiWatch program is a vital part of Baltimore's effort to reduce violent crime in our neighborhoods. The cameras serve...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Charles Street, Executive Branch, Washington Monument, Abell Foundation
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Defense claims man saw Phylicia Barnes alive in Cecil Co.
Defense attorneys for the man accused of murdering Phylicia Barnes have filed motions claiming to have a witness who saw the teen alive in Cecil County and attacking the credibility of the lead police detective who investigated the case. In a motion...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Justice System, Witnesses, Kevin Johnson, Phylicia Barnes
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Shut off Baltimore's speed cameras
It's time for Baltimore to shut its speed cameras down. On Friday, the vendor that runs the city's program reported that several cameras have error rates as high as 5 percent, and it doesn't know exactly why. Those cameras are no longer issuing tickets....
Tags: Anthony W. Batts, Safety of Citizens, Science and Technology, Local Government, Human Mishaps
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Baltimore buyback takes in 461 guns in wake of Conn. shooting
With the violent attack on a Connecticut elementary school weighing on many minds, hundreds of people turned in 461 guns to Baltimore police at a buyback Saturday. Sonia White, a 65-year-old Baltimore County grandmother, was turning in her husband's old...
Tags: ShopRite, Bernard C. Young, Shootings
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Two top Baltimore Police commanders signal intent to retire
Two of the Baltimore Police Department's top commanders have notified the department that they intend to retire, moves that come as Police Commissioner Anthony W. Batts prepares to reshape the agency in coming weeks. The commanders are Col. Jesse Oden,...Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Anthony W. Batts, Anthony Barksdale, John Hess
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Report: Former Baltimore Police commander to be named chief of Indianapolis
Rick Hite, who retired from the Baltimore Police Department in 2010, will be named the chief of the Indianapolis Police Department, the Indianapolis Star is reporting. Hite left Baltimore while holding a position of a community and youth liaison, and... -
Blogger who live-streamed police standoff is denied bail
At a lively Central Booking hearing, a Baltimore judge denied bail to Frank James MacArthur, the local blogger who live-streamed a standoff with police on the Internet, two days after a different judge ordered him to be released. MacArthur, 47,...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Interior Policy, Justice System, Personal Weapon Control, Court Preliminary
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Police search for suspect in November fatal shooting in Northeast
Baltimore police named a 19-year-old man Tuesday as the suspect in an early-November killing in Northeast Baltimore, warning the public that he remains on the loose, "armed and extremely dangerous." Police detectives and the U.S. Marshals Service are...
Tags: Pimlico Race Course, Entertainment, Brooklyn (New York City), Walmart, Radio Industry
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