The co-owner of a nonprofit urban farm filed suit against two Baltimore Police Department officers last week alleging they arrested him for theft without probable cause and damaged his reputation and business interests. Nkemakonam Obineme was arrested in August 2015 ...

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The Baltimore City Council plans to summon Baltimore police to a hearing to explain its use of a manned plane with cameras to record movements all across the city. The Baltimore Sun reports that council members will ask the department ...

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Baltimore police, using money provided by a wealthy, anonymous donor, have been surveilling the city with a manned plane loaded with cameras that can view 30 square miles. The existence of the program was made public Tuesday in a lengthy ...

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 “Our investigation found that Baltimore is a city where the bonds of trust have been broken and that the Baltimore Police Department engaged in a pattern or practice of unlawful and unconstitutional conduct, ranging from the use of excessive force ...

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Zero tolerance: I’m betting it sounded good to crime-weary Baltimoreans when Martin O’Malley was mayor. It had worked in New York. Surely Baltimore would be easy. Much smaller. Life did get a bit calmer. But something less definitive came with ...

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If for some reason you missed the recent release of the U.S. Department of Justice’s report from a 15-month investigation of the Baltimore Police Department, it can be summed up this way: The findings are damning and, in more than ...

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With introspection and self-blame, Maryland’s Legislative Black Caucus pledged Friday to ensure the success of the U.S. Justice Department’s call for the Baltimore Police Department to end what has been decades of unconstitutional, discriminatory treatment of black city residents in the name of reducing crime.

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Anyone who cares about the future of Baltimore should read the U.S. Justice Department investigative report on the city’s police practices, released Wednesday. The 163-page report, in addition to being a clear-eyed, detailed and sweeping indictment of what’s wrong in ...

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The Justice Department’s blistering report on the Baltimore Police Department’s practices has brought national attention to the ways officers systematically violated the rights of citizens. But for attorneys representing those citizens in civil lawsuits against police, the conclusions were not ...

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The task of trying to reform Baltimore’s police department in the aftermath of a damning U.S. Department of Justice report will largely fall to the police commissioner, mayor and state legislature. The report, officially released Wednesday, accuses the department of ...

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