President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve accountability in policing — a meaningful but limited action on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.
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Read More »May 25, 2022 Comments Off on Biden signs policing order on anniversary of George Floyd’s death
President Joe Biden signed an executive order Wednesday to improve accountability in policing — a meaningful but limited action on the second anniversary of George Floyd's death.
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Read More »June 29, 2021 Comments Off on Maryland deputy justified in shooting attacker, prosecutors find
A Maryland sheriff’s deputy was justified in using deadly force on a man who caused two traffic accidents and attacked the deputy with a piece of wood, according to prosecutors.
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Videos showing Ocean City police officers kneeing one Black teen and using a stun gun on another on the Boardwalk in separate confrontations that began over vaping are stirring criticism of the department’s use of force.
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Read More »April 21, 2021 Comments Off on Chauvin’s conviction removes pro-police presumption, Md. lawyers say
The murder conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the recorded and widely disseminated slaying of George Floyd has removed the long and wrongly held courtroom presumption that an officer’s use of deadly force was appropriate, Maryland prosecuting ...
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Read More »April 10, 2021 Comments Off on General Assembly overrides Hogan’s veto, enacts police reforms
The Maryland General Assembly on Saturday overrode Gov. Larry Hogan’s veto and enacted police reform proposals intended to curtail deadly and excessive force, limit the use of no-knock warrants and make the police disciplinary process subject to greater civilian oversight. ...
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Read More »April 9, 2021 Comments Off on Hogan vetoes police reform proposals; legislative leaders seek to override
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan Friday evening vetoed police reform proposals intended to curtail deadly and excessive force, limit the use of no-knock warrants and make the police disciplinary process subject to greater civilian oversight. The measures, however, passed both the ...
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Read More »April 8, 2021 Comments Off on Police reform’s passage draws Dems’ cheers, GOP jeers
Democratic legislators on Thursday basked in the General Assembly’s passage of police reform legislation to curtail deadly and excessive force and make the police disciplinary process uniform across the state and with greater civilian oversight. But their Republican colleagues – ...
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Read More »April 7, 2021 Comments Off on General Assembly sends sweeping police reform legislation to Hogan
Maryland’s Democratic-led General Assembly on Wednesday gave final approval to a raft of police reform proposals to curtail deadly and excessive force, limit no-knock warrants and make the police disciplinary process uniform across the state and with greater civilian oversight. ...
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Read More »December 13, 2020 Comments Off on Floyd’s death, protests spur Md. police reform efforts
The Memorial Day death of an unarmed Black man at the knee of a Minneapolis police officer caught on video sparked not only nationwide protests this year but calls from Maryland legislators for law enforcement reform in their state when ...
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Read More »November 26, 2019 Comments Off on First consent decree-mandated BPD policies rolled out in practice
The first consent decree-mandated policy changes are in practice on the streets of Baltimore this week, nearly three years after the city and federal government agreed to a lengthy reform process. The Baltimore Police Department announced Tuesday that a group ...
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