2015–2021 Term Report
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FEBRUARY 2017<br />
JANUARY 2017<br />
The City of Baltimore and the<br />
Justice Department announced<br />
that they agreed on a court<br />
enforceable consent decree to<br />
institute sweeping reforms in<br />
Baltimore's police department.<br />
The SAO launched a new, online<br />
tool to engage the community in<br />
the fight against crime called<br />
Community Court Watch, a<br />
citywide database that enables<br />
the public to track the trajectory<br />
of arrests that have occurred in<br />
their neighborhoods.<br />
MARCH 2017<br />
Governor Larry Hogan signed an<br />
Executive Order declaring a<br />
State of Emergency in response<br />
to the heroin, opioid, and<br />
fentanyl crisis ravaging<br />
communities in Maryland and<br />
across the country as Maryland’s<br />
rate of overdose deaths climbed<br />
to new heights, with Baltimore<br />
City being the most impacted.<br />
APRIL 2017<br />
The City of Baltimore and the<br />
DOJ entered into a Consent<br />
Decree, which is a court<br />
enforceable agreement to<br />
resolve DOJ's findings that it<br />
believed BPD had engaged in a<br />
pattern and practice of conduct<br />
that violates the First, Fourth,<br />
and Fourteenth Amendments to<br />
the United States Constitution,<br />
and certain provisions of federal<br />
statutory law.<br />
YEAR<br />
THREE<br />
THE GUN VIOLENCE<br />
ENFORCEMENT DIVISION<br />
(GVED), on September, the SAO<br />
announced a collaborative<br />
division devoted to<br />
investigating and prosecuting<br />
gun crime in Baltimore. GVED<br />
uses intelligence gathered by<br />
BPD detectives and CSU in the<br />
State’s Attorney’s Office to<br />
apprehend, charge and convict<br />
specific gun offenders who have<br />
been identified as top drivers<br />
of crime in Baltimore.<br />
MARCH 2017<br />
Seven Baltimore police officers<br />
who served in a high-profile gun<br />
unit, The Gun Trace Task Force<br />
(GTTF), were indicted on federal<br />
racketeering charges —the<br />
officers were accused of shaking<br />
down citizens, filing false court<br />
paperwork and making<br />
fraudulent overtime claims. This<br />
would ultimately later be found<br />
to be one of the largest police<br />
corruption scandals in the<br />
history of the Nation.<br />
MARCH 2017<br />
The SAO announced a new<br />
policy, requiring it to post all<br />
“use of force” investigation case<br />
summaries to its website any<br />
time a Baltimore police officer is<br />
suspected of criminally<br />
assaulting or fatally wounding a<br />
person in Baltimore City. The<br />
case summaries explain the<br />
Office’s and/or an independent<br />
investigator’s decision not to<br />
press charges against the<br />
accused officer(s), as well as<br />
provide supporting evidence<br />
and documentation for the<br />
declination to charge.<br />
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17ANGLE-RI Sao at a glance 2017
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