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Created: 14 March 2023

Residents want to support legislation that makes their communities safer, while others will mount opposition based on their own agendas. Illegal possession of a firearm is a gravely serious offense and should be treated as such, and this bill allows us to do that. As a public servant elected by the people of Baltimore, I am compelled to stand on the side of the community, which is why I strongly support HB481/SB889. Read more. 

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Created: 03 March 2023

“When it comes to public safety, progress can and should be measured. The Public Safety Accountability Dashboard provides a look at the numbers that inform our data-driven efforts in ways that directly address Baltimore’s latest public safety trends,” Scott said. Read more.

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Created: 03 March 2023

Many of them gathered Tuesday in Washington D.C. to discuss that and 11 News spoke with U.S. Rep. Kweisi Mfume about those talks and next steps to come. Mfume said they had a great discussion in Washington, and there was a realization among everyone there that moving back to the model of prosecuting low-level crimes was the right thing to do. Read more. 

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Created: 03 March 2023

Carmen Rodriguez operated the cash register that day. One of her employees stocked shelves. A woman bought a candy bar. Rodriguez’s small children played, her five-month-old resting in a baby carrier on the counter behind her, as customers came and went. Read more.

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Created: 22 February 2023

Police then responded a short time later to two walk-in shooting victims at a nearby hospital, where they found a 16-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man shot. Both were treated for non-life-threatening injuries. Read more.

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Created: 22 February 2023

Charging documents allege Davis drove his Lamborghini through a red light at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. and Washington Boulevards, striking a Toyota. Read more.

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Created: 22 February 2023

The House Judiciary Committee took testimony from Bates, and several other people in support of the plan that would raise the maximum penalty from three years to five years for people convicted of illegal gun possession, or transport, across the board. Read more.

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Created: 14 February 2023

The Maryland U.S. attorney’s office is thinly structured and details much of its  limited resources  to  help the Baltimore City State’s Attorney’s Office and the Baltimore Police Department. This needs to slow considerably, and Bates, if given the monetary resources by the city, should be able to quickly attract skilled and seasoned professionals and retain existing staff, to prosecute the criminal docket and staff programs designed to intervene before violence occurs. This can all happen without extensive help from the U.S. attorney’s office.  We do not expect that all help from that office will be withdrawn, and we still expect there will be  federal prosecutions for 922(g) violations, but it is critical to the efficient functioning of the U.S. attorney’s office, and the independence of the city state’s attorney’s office, that Bates be given the resources he says he  needs and be allowed to create his office in the image for which the taxpayers of this city elected him. Read more. 

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Created: 14 February 2023

Jason Johnson, associate professor in multimedia journalism, asked questions that weighed heavily on Morgan’s faculty and students‘ minds to Scott, Governor Wes Moore, Attorney General Anthony Brown, and City of Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates. Read more. 

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Baltimore State's Attorney Ivan Bates spoke exclusively with FOX45's Mikenzie Frost about his first 30 days in office. Read more.