Timeline: baltimore

2015-08-25 23:49:34sentencessite
  • (AP) - Maryland moved the last inmates out of the dangerously decrepit men's section of the Baltimore City Detention Center on Tuesday, state officials said, completing the closure of the notorious facility.
  • Soon after the announcement, officials began moving about 1,100 inmates and detainees to other Baltimore-area detention centers, keeping them in proximity to local courts.
2015-08-25 22:05:59sentencessite
  • Maryland Moves Last Inmates From Decrepit Baltimore Jail
2015-08-20 22:10:28sentencessite
  • Amid particularly bloody summer, Baltimore surpasses New York City in homicides for the year
  • BALTIMORE - Baltimore has had more killings than New York City this year, and its homicide rate per 100,000 people is greater than New York's and Chicago's.
  • New York has 8.2 million residents, while Baltimore has 622,000.
  • The Baltimore Sun reported Thursday (http://bsun.md/1gYUgmw ) that Baltimore's homicide rate is 34 killings per 100,000 people, while New York's is 2.5 per 100,000.
2015-08-20 04:30:58sentencessite
  • Gray's death prompted near-daily protests in Baltimore, and served as a catalyst for the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into whether the department's officers routinely use excessive force and participate in illegal arrests.
2015-08-19 22:39:09sentencessite
  • Homicide total in Baltimore matches killings in all of 2014
  • With Baltimore's 211th homicide on Wednesday, the city has matched the number of killings committed all of last year.
2015-08-19 22:29:00sentencessite
  • Baltimore officer charged in shooting of burglary suspect
  • A Baltimore police officer who authorities say shot a burglary suspect at close range after he'd been subdued is being charged with attempted first- and second-degree murder.
2015-08-19 18:38:56sentencessite
  • The U.S. military has launched the second of two helium-filled airships near Baltimore to test an East Coast missile defense system.
2015-08-14 12:32:42sentencessite
  • Police: 3 Killed in Baltimore Shooting; No Motive Released
2015-08-06 08:22:05sentencessite
  • Baltimore Police declined to answer any questions about PCA, referring all queries to City Hall.
2015-08-06 08:22:05sentencessite
  • Psych firm that screens Baltimore cops under review
  • FILE - This May 1, 2015, file photo provided by the Baltimore Police Department shows Lt. Brian Rice, one of the police officers charged with felonies in the death of Freddie Gray.
  • The psychological firm paid to evaluate Baltimore police, including Rice, Psychology Consultants Associated, has been reprimanded by the state police for cutting corners in its mental health screenings of officers.
  • Baltimore's law department and inspector general are also investigating the firm's assessments of city police officers, said Kevin Harris, a spokesman for the city.
  • As part of his contract with the Baltimore City Police Department, Sachs assessed the mental health and fitness for duty of officers who were removed from active duty due to psychological problems.
  • Michael A. Wood, a retired Baltimore police sergeant who said he wrote the department's medical policy, said Rice "absolutely would have had a fitness for duty evaluation, and would have been referred to PCA. It would have been required."
2015-08-04 02:02:10sentencessite
  • U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, front center, and other elected officials announce the start of the Baltimore Federal Homicide Task Force, Monday, Aug. 3, 2015, in Baltimore.
  • The homicide rate in Baltimore began to skyrocket in May, when the city saw 42 homicides in a single month.
2015-07-31 00:43:15sentencessite
  • The ACLU and the Baltimore-based Public Justice Center last month called on a federal judge to reopen a lawsuit against the state of Maryland over what the agencies described as substandard conditions.
2015-07-31 00:41:06sentencessite
  • Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, right, poses at Baltimore City Detention Center, Thursday, July 30, 2015, in Baltimore, at the end of a news conference to announce his plan to immediately shut down the jail.
2015-07-31 00:41:06sentencessite
  • Maryland governor to close Baltimore detention center
2015-07-28 22:04:16sentencessite
  • Baltimore boy has first bilateral hand transplant on child
2015-07-28 12:39:04sentencessite
  • Police: Officer shoots, wounds man in Baltimore
  • Police say an officer shot a man in the face in southwest Baltimore after the man ran his car into a cruiser.
2015-07-28 01:35:29sentencessite
  • BALTIMORE - Baltimore officials have released thousands of pages of documents related to unrest following Freddie Gray's death.
2015-07-27 21:54:08sentencessite
  • He thought he would spend his entire career in Baltimore, but the Orioles opted not to match Atlanta's contract offer of $44 million over four years.
  • His association with Baltimore extended well beyond Camden Yards.
2015-07-27 19:10:05sentencessite
  • Police: Man shot, gravely hurt near site of Baltimore unrest
  • Police say an 18-year-old man has been shot in the chest near the epicenter of April unrest in west Baltimore.
2015-07-27 17:39:20sentencessite
  • A man sleeps on a stoop as police guard the perimeter of the scene of a shooting on Monday, July 27, 2015, in Baltimore.
2015-07-27 17:39:20sentencessite
  • A member of the Baltimore Police Department stands near evidence at the scene of a shooting on Monday, July 27, 2015, in Baltimore.
2015-07-27 15:44:06sentencessite
  • Police: Male shot near epicenter of Baltimore unrest