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Saturday, Jan 20 Every few years â usually when violent crime is rising â the mayor of Baltimore fires the police commissioner. |
| Darryl De Sousa, a 30-year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, has been tapped by Mayor Catherine E. Pugh to become the agencyâs 40th police commissioner, replacing Kevin Davis. |
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| Mayor Catherine Pugh replaced police commissioner Kevin Davis on Friday, citing the need to get a handle on Baltimoreâs record levels of violence. |
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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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| Two Baltimore Police officers charged in perhaps the biggest corruption scandal in the agencyâs history go on trial Monday in U.S. District Court, The Gun Trace Task Force trial is likely to add new details â and raise new questions. |
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| Timeline following the federal racketeering case of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force. |
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| The period following the death of Freddie Gray was supposed to be a time when Baltimore restored the communityâs faith in the police department. Yet in 2017, the Baltimore Police Department found itself mired in scandal after scandal. |
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