Baltimore's Board of Estimates will vote on a six-figure settlement to end a civil rights lawsuit stemming from allegations that members of the corrupt Gun Trace Task Force planted a gun on a man.

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Baltimore is facing two new federal lawsuits alleging evidence planting by discredited police officers, including a former detective who is serving 18 years in prison for crimes committed on the job. The suits illustrate the continuing fallout from the widespread ...

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A former Baltimore Police detective was sentenced after he lied to a grand jury and conspired to violate the civil rights of city residents.

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Maryland’s top court will weigh whether a Black man’s speedy departure upon seeing Baltimore police in a high-crime area gives officers reasonable suspicion of criminal activity to stop him.

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A court settlement calls for the city of Baltimore to pay $300,000 to resolve claims that police officers planted drugs on a rapper known as Young Moose.

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A Baltimore police detective faces a possible prison sentence after jurors convicted him of conspiring to deprive civil rights, falsifying records and lying to a grand jury.

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A former Baltimore police sergeant admitted to on-the-job misconduct and crime stretching back decades Tuesday as he testified in federal court against an ex-colleague on trial for conspiracy and falsifying records. This week’s trial against the defendant, Detective Robert Hankard, ...

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A victim of the Baltimore Police Department's corrupt Gun Trace Task Force unit has filed a multimillion-dollar federal civil rights lawsuit.

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The University of Baltimore Center for Criminal Justice Reform's first event will examine a recently released investigation into the disgraced Gun Trace Task Force unit of the Baltimore Police Department.

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Baltimore’s spending board approved $525,000 for a man who served four years behind bars after two members of a rogue police unit arrested him.

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