The Baltimore Police Department is having a tough time restoring public confidence in the troubled agency. The city is on pace to break its decades-old murder record and the body camera program that was rolled out to increase transparency has ...

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An attorney says concerns raised by Baltimore police body camera footage led to prosecutors dropping charges against his client. The Baltimore Sun reports attorney Josh Insley released footage Tuesday that he believes shows officers “engage in what appears to be a staged ...

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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby said Friday her office is in the process of dismissing 34 cases in which officers who appear in a controversial body camera video are material witnesses. “We are dismissing those cases which rely exclusively ...

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The apparent failure of the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office to flag a body camera video that allegedly showed an officer manipulating the footage highlights the downside to having hours of recordings of arrests as the cameras become more prevalent: ...

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Baltimore City State’s Attorney Marilyn J. Mosby on Thursday defended her office’s response to controversial police body-camera footage as prosecutors, defense lawyers and legal observers continued to assess the fallout from a video that appears to show an officer planting ...

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Baltimore city prosecutors on Wednesday dismissed some of the cases involving an officer apparently caught on his own body camera planting drugs that resulted in a criminal arrest as the public defender’s office asked for an accounting of more than ...

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The impact of the widespread use of police body cameras is still uncertain, but as larger departments continue to put more cameras on the street, prosecutors and defense attorneys have a more immediate concern: how to find time to review ...

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Hundreds of Baltimore police officers will start wearing body cameras while on patrol in May. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis and Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake announced at a news conference Thursday that the city is finalizing a $11.6 million contract with Taser ...

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Officials are considering outfitting Baltimore City school police with body cameras. The Baltimore Sun reports that Karl Perry, who oversees the school police, said Saturday that Superintendent Gregory Thornton has asked him to look into the issue. Perry said the request ...

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As the Baltimore Police Department prepares to equip 3,000 officers with body-worn cameras amid increasing scrutiny of police interactions with the public, questions remain about how the footage will be handled and who will have access to it. Baltimore Mayor ...

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