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1 Dec 2017, 9:36 am by CJLF Staff
  Unfortunately her agreement last April to a federal consent decree restricting pro-active policing in the city means that any new officers will be joining a hobbled department. [read post]
6 Mar 2012, 1:27 pm
Police officers focus a large portion of their time and effort making arrests for possession of cocaine, heroin, and prescription medication throughout Maryland, and especially in Baltimore City. [read post]
26 Sep 2017, 12:16 pm by CJLF Staff
  It does not matter that the Obama Justice Department did not find racial bias in Michael Brown's shooting, or with Freddie Gray (Baltimore) or Eric Garner (New York). [read post]
24 May 2016, 7:26 am by Bill Otis
Compared with the first four and half months of 2014, homicides in Chicago are up 95%, according to the police department. [read post]
6 Jul 2012, 1:20 pm
In 2010, the Police Department consisted of 6 full-time law enforcement employees, all of them police officers. [read post]
24 May 2017, 10:00 am
Under previous administrations of both parties, the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division has responded to reports of systemic police abuse in cities like Los Angeles, Cincinnati, New Orleans, Chicago, Baltimore, and Ferguson by investigating, reporting, and entering “consent decrees” — court-enforceable agreements with local police departments — designed to reduce or eliminate abuse. [read post]
15 Nov 2016, 3:43 pm by Shahid Buttar
Louis, and New York, grassroots groups in the EFA have advocated in coalition with local allies for legal protections at the municipal level to ensure that police departments can no longer buy or use military surveillance equipment in secret. [read post]
25 Jan 2013, 12:07 pm by Rahul Bhagnari, ACLU
“The O'Malley administration's decision to scrap its plans to build a $70 million youth jail in Baltimore is a major win for the city and its youth. [read post]
16 Apr 2017, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
The decree with the Baltimore Police Department, for instance, came after a stinging report by the Department of Justice that found a “legacy of zero tolerance enforcement,” which led to a chronic pattern of unconstitutional stops, searches, and arrests. [read post]
9 Feb 2017, 10:29 am by CJLF Staff
  John Jay College of Criminal Justice professor Peter Moskos, a former Baltimore police officer, noted that a Justice Department report on policing in Baltimore released last Summer contained nothing about preventing crime. [read post]
11 Aug 2016, 4:27 pm by Shahid Buttar
Citing the constraint of a corporate non-disclosure agreement, a police officer in Baltimore even risked contempt charges by refusing to answer judicial inquiries about how police used the devices. [read post]
8 May 2015, 5:34 am by SHG
  As happened in Ferguson, Missouri, Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has called for the federal cavalry to sweep into the city and right the pattern and practice of unconstitutional abuse and discrimination. [read post]
17 May 2015, 9:01 pm by Joseph Margulies
I took a look at the “zero tolerance” policy implemented by the Baltimore Police Department from 1999-2007, which led Baltimore’s finest to stop and arrest hundreds of thousands of residents for the most trivial violations. [read post]
10 Mar 2024, 7:42 am by Dave Maass
Air Force The Scrubbed Scrubs Award: Ontario Ministry of Health, Canada The Judicial Blindfold Award: Mississippi Justice Courts It’s My Party and I Can Hide Records If I Want to Award: Wyoming Department of Education The Fee-l the Burn Award: Baltimore Police Department The Continuing Failure Award: United States Citizenship and Immigration Services The Creative Invoicing Award: Richmond, Va., Police Department The Not-So-Magic Word… [read post]
1 May 2015, 3:49 am by SHG
Invoking his own past as a liberal organizer, Mr. de Blasio urged reporters “not to exaggerate what happened” at the Union Square rally on Wednesday night, saying the Police Department had acted appropriately in arresting 143 people marching to protest the death of a Baltimore black man, Freddie Gray, in police custody. [read post]
24 Dec 2018, 8:54 am by Shahid Buttar
Meanwhile, groups in other major cities mobilized to challenge local police surveillance. [read post]
1 Sep 2015, 12:00 pm by CJLF Staff
  The Baltimore Police Department as well as the Baltimore Sheriff's Office "canceled leave to maximize availability of city officers" in anticipation of possible conflict. [read post]
5 Oct 2015, 1:53 pm by CJLF Staff
  University of Maryland law professor Michael Greenberger and other experts add that Baltimore's "less assertive" police force, stemming from either resentment, their treatment by city leaders or fear that they too can face arrest for doing their jobs, is reflecting unfavorably in the city's crime statistics. [read post]