Brandon Soderberg

Baltimore

Operations Director at Baltimore Beat

I report on cops, guns, & drugs / I cowrote “I Got A Monster" (it's also a documentary) / Soderberg v. Carrion / [email protected]

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Articles

Dirty Cops, Dirty Data

Oct 3, 2024 | truthdig.com | Megan Kenny |Brandon Soderberg

This is the third and final part in a series of stories from The Real News examining the past 30-plus years of police and crime in Baltimore City.
Dirty Cops, Dirty Data

Sep 30, 2024 | therealnews.com | Megan Kenny |Brandon Soderberg

On the heels of 2023, a year when Baltimore’s annual homicide number significantly declined for the first time in nearly a decade, the Baltimore Police held a press conference to celebrate what public officials and the Department of Justice called “a significant milestone.” That early 2024 “milestone”: two of the many reforms required by the federal consent decree—the result of a civil rights investigation following the 2015 police killing of Freddie Gray—were recently completed to the...
Dirty Cops, Dirty Data

Sep 30, 2024 | flipboard.com | Megan Kenny |Brandon Soderberg

13 hours agoThe former president's call for "one really violent day" has critics shuddering. Critics are calling out Donald Trump after the former president on Sunday advocated for police to be allowed “one really violent day” in which they could be “extraordinarily rough” with anyone they suspect of a …
Controversial Arrest and Body-Cam Footage Raise Familiar Concerns About BPD’s Plainclothes Unit

Sep 16, 2024 | baltimoremagazine.com | Brandon Soderberg

[Editor’s Note: This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing.
Taking a Hard Look at Brandon Scott’s Gun Violence Reduction Strategy

Jul 22, 2024 | citybiz.co | Brandon Soderberg |Baltimore Brew |Kevin Parker

Last Thursday, seven people were indicted for allegedly operating a drug trafficking organization in East Baltimore. Police said there had been an increase in shootings in the area where the group operated, though no one was charged with shootings or homicides. “Sending young men and women to prison is not our goal. It is the absolute last resort and a necessary balance with the positive opportunities that we are providing,” Mayor Brandon Scott said.
Baltimore’s “Spy Plane” Was Ruled Unconstitutional in 2021. So Why Did One Murder Case Go to Trial Years Later?

Mar 19, 2024 | baltimoremagazine.com | Benjamin Snyder |Brandon Soderberg

This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. Explore more of the project’s coverage, here. Around 10:30 a.m. on May 22, 2020, 60-year-old Steven Lamont Clark Sr. was shot and killed in front of his home in West Baltimore’s generally quiet Forest Park neighborhood.
Here We Go Again

Dec 23, 2023 | popularresistance.org | Brandon Soderberg |Andrew Friedman |Evangeline Gallagher

Above photo: Illustrations by Evangeline Gallagher. The short history and long tail of Baltimore’s “zero tolerance” policing. Content warning: This story contains descriptions of police violence and the use of a homophobic slur. It was about to get dark. In the summer of 2003, Devin was 19 years old and living in West Baltimore with his mom and two brothers, just a few blocks away from the Western District Baltimore Police station.
Here We Go Again

Dec 22, 2023 | therealnews.com | Brandon Soderberg |Andrew Friedman |Megan Kenny |Vida Fye

Content warning: This story contains descriptions of police violence and the use of a homophobic slur. It was about to get dark. In the summer of 2003, Devin was 19 years old and living in West Baltimore with his mom and two brothers, just a few blocks away from the Western District Baltimore Police station. Every night around 9 or 10 p.m., Baltimore cops patrolled the area heavily.
Baltimore Police Unit Under Fire for Deadly Shootings, Questionable Stops

Nov 12, 2023 | citybiz.co | Brandon Soderberg |Kevin Parker

When Shogun Dowling noticed the unmarked car full of cops in tactical vests in his rearview mirror, he got nervous. It was January 1 of this year, and Dowling and his wife Julie were heading to the Ravens-Steelers game. The three officers were members of a Baltimore Police Department District Action Team (DAT), one of the city’s specialized units tasked with seizing guns and drugs.
In Louisiana, police reform led directly to a “torture warehouse.”

Oct 13, 2023 | slate.com | Brandon Soderberg

Jurisprudence This story was produced in partnership with the Garrison Project, an independent, nonpartisan organization addressing the crisis of mass incarceration and policing. A new lawsuit filed in federal court last month alleges that the Baton Rouge Police Department ran a “torture warehouse” where members of its Street Crimes Unit strip searched, beat, and otherwise humiliated people and then released them, often without their being charged with a crime.