The Baltimore City Council recently demanded that Police Commissioner Michael Harrison present a hasty plan detailing how the police will make the city safer. The commissioner complied in short order and told the council there would be, in essence, a ...

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She hears her son calling. “Mom, I’m coming. I’m coming, mom.” He is not, and she knows it. Cynthia Bruce speaks of her son, Marcus, 23, shot to death July 26, 2016. Shot to death on the block where his ...

Tagged with: Baltimore Baltimore violence C. Fraser Smith

"We're going to provide all of the things that the city requested us to do and we're going to try and go even further than that."

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As I read a headline in one of the local newspapers this past weekend, I had a sense of déjà vu. It read: “Amid record violence, worried Baltimoreans see a city in crisis.” This view is shared widely in the ...

Tagged with: Baltimore violence Donald C. Fry