Ben Conarck
Criminal Justice and Public Safety Reporter at The Baltimore Banner
covering prisons, jails and police @BaltimoreBanner • tips to bconarck @ thebaltimorebanner dot com • former @MiamiHerald @jaxdotcom 🦉
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck
In recent months, the Baltimore Police Department has made considerable progress bolstering its recruitment class sizes and reversing the steady attrition of sworn officers that has plagued the agency for years. But it’s now facing delays in getting trainees out on the streets due to its reliance on a state-owned firing range. U.S. Judge James K.
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1 week ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck
After Freddie Gray died nearly a decade ago from injuries sustained in police custody, sparking unrest throughout Baltimore, Officer Rashad Hamond was assigned to a foot patrol near the Penn-North Metro station. A native of Northeast Baltimore, Hamond was in his 20s back in 2015. The young officerwasn’t surprised by the protests sweeping through the city. That pent-up frustration, he said, represented the start of a conversation that was long overdue.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration has taken rare enforcement actions against Maryland correctional officials, not just at the Baltimore jail, but also at the state’s women’s prison in Jessup, public records revealed.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck
Black people make up 30% of Maryland’s population, but 51% of its adult arrests, 59% of the state’s jail detainees, 71% of its prisoners, 71% of its parolees and 53% of people under supervised probation in the state. Despite Maryland’s progressive reputation, those disparities — particularly its prison population — are among the worst in the country.
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1 month ago |
thebaltimorebanner.com | Ben Conarck
Baltimore’s approach to fighting a burgeoning illicit drug trade in the city has shifted remarkably over the last decade, abandoning the aggressive and potentially unconstitutional practice of “clearing corners” in favor of the more targeted approach police use now.
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