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 Tuesday, Jan 16 Two armed suspects are at large after robbing a downtown Baltimore convenience store and exchanging fire with Baltimore police officers early Tuesday, police said. |
| A statue in Baltimore's Patterson Park honoring the Star Spangled Banner was defaced with red paint. And the words "Racist Anthem" were sprayed on a sidewalk nearby. |
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| "They are like the terminator. They just never stop coming." A look at Derek Hines and Leo Wise, the two assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting the corrupt squad of Baltimore police. |
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| Security specialists urged people to be vigilant about hidden cameras after Baltimore County Police on Thursday arrested a man they say secretly filmed people in a family bathroom at White Marsh Mall. |
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| The Baltimore police consent decree requires city to develop a plan to divert youth to the criminal justice system. |
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| A new study of Baltimore police strategies to combat gun violence from 2003 to 2017 has concluded the most effective was the so-called âhot spotsâ program that sent plainclothes detectives into violent neighborhoods to focus on illegal gun possession and individuals with a history of gun offenses. |
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