Officials predict the costs of reforming the Baltimore Police Department department will be steep. “While we understand Baltimore doesn’t have a blank check, in order for those reforms to happen there has to be a commitment to the dollars,” said Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake on Wednesday. Her remarks came after the U.S. Justice Department announced the […]
According to an investigation by the U.S. Department of Justice, the Baltimore Police Department has engaged in a multi-year pattern of making unconstitutional stops, searches and seizures of residents and using disparate enforcement strategies that targeted African-Americans. In a copy of the report summarizing the Justice Department’s findings, which was originally obtained by The New […]
