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 Tuesday, Apr 24 Baltimore police counted 17 killings last month, but 29 within the three weeks before April 23. For Baltimoreans and for the officials charged with keeping them safe, a familiar dread is returning. |
| The independent monitoring team overseeing the Baltimore Police consent decree is seeking proposals for a survey to gauge public perceptions of the police department. |
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| Baltimore County Police have arrested the remaining two suspects — both girls — in the carjacking of a pregnant Baltimore County school teacher last week. |
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| Queen Anne’s County sheriffs deputies are investigating the sexual assault of a student by several other students inside a locker room at Kent Island High School. |
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| Baltimore Police Commissioner Darryl De Sousa told the panel created to review the investigation of Det. Sean Suiter’s killing to “go where the evidence leads you,” before the group was scheduled to spend hours discussing the unsolved case in private. |
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| A substitute teacher who was arrested last month on charges of child sexual abuse in Montgomery County had worked at 70 Howard County public schools — nearly every school in the district — in the last six years, the Howard County school officials said. |
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| A special team within the Baltimore Police Department designed to investigate cases in which officers use force or discharge their weapons has “shadowed” homicide detectives from the beginning of their investigation into the fatal shooting of Det. Sean Suiter, the department confirmed Wednesday. |
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| Baltimore Police Sgt. Thomas Allers, who pleaded guilty to racketeering conspiracy charges, will be sentenced May 11. |
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