Baltimore’s police department is a technological disaster

Enlarge (credit: MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images) As part of the consent decree reached in the Justice Department investigation that followed the death of Freddie Gray and the ensuing unrest, an assessment team from the National Police Foundation recently completed a study taking inventory of the Baltimore Police Department’s technology infrastructure. The study meant to determine what […]

Baltimore’s 911 system, Boeing join Atlanta in week of crypto-malware outbreaks

Enlarge / Ransomware took Baltimore’s 911 system offline on March 24 and 25 as the city’s IT department worked to isolate and restore the computer-assisted dispatch network. (credit: Kim Hairston/Baltimore Sun/TNS via Getty Images) Last Friday, the City of Atlanta was struck by a ransomware attack that took much of the city’s internal and external […]

Baltimore’s ‘Nobody kill anybody’ ceasefire marred by 2 homicides

Published time: 6 Aug, 2017 16:50 An inaugural event to curb murders in one of America’s most violent cities was interrupted by the killings of two men on Saturday, though organisers insist that the ‘Baltimore ceasefire’ has not ended. Community leaders had called for a 72-hour ceasefire in the crime ravaged Maryland city, hoping to […]

A federal judge has approved Baltimore’s plans to overhaul its police department, despite DOJ objections

Associated Press/Patrick Semansky BALTIMORE (AP) — A federal judge on Friday approved an agreement negotiated under the Obama administration to overhaul the troubled Baltimore police force, sweeping aside objections from the Trump Justice Department. President Donald Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, promptly warned that the agreement may result in “a less safe city.” U.S. District […]