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Crime Briefing
April 24, 2015
Sources: Watch Center Report, current as of 0600
BPD Murders and NFS, current as of 0600
Commanders Exsum* for Comstat Week 9, data ending 2/28/2015 at 0600
*Exsum not received since 3/2/15. Daily Report not received.
Homicides and Shootings

Homicides
Non-Fatal Shootings

Year to Date
14
15
54
64
75
100

Differential
+/10
25

%
18.5%
33.3%

Violent Crime and Property Crime*

Year to Date
14
15
Violent Crime
1,178
1,067
Property Crime
3,980
3,607
*Exsum not received since 3/2/15, data current as of 2/28/2015.

Differential
%
-9%
-9%

Significant Events
Homicides:
Daily Report not received, incident information unavailable
Shootings:
Daily Report not received, incident information unavailable
Significant Events
The president of the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance of Baltimore on Friday
called for the resignation of Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts in the
wake of the death of Freddie Gray, saying the city's police department is "in
disarray." Rev. Alvin Gwynn Sr., head of the coalition of Baltimore ministers, said
Batts has shown a "lack of viable leadership capabilities," and said the alliance
believes Batts should "tender his resignation immediately." "We can no longer
distinguish who is in charge of the police department's day-to-day operations," said
Gwynn, who called Gray's death "untimely an unnecessary." "It seems that no one
in the police department can explain what happened," he said. Gwynn also had
criticism for Fraternal Order of Police Lodge No. 3 President Gene Ryan, who earlier
this week issued a statement comparing the rhetoric of protests as sounding "much
like a lynch mob." Gwynn expressed "shock and dismay" at those comments, and
said they warranted a written and public apology. (Baltimore Sun)

Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday he will send Maryland State Police troopers to
Baltimore City as protests intensify over Freddie Gray's death while in police
custody. "There's raw emotions. People legitimately have concerns, and the
community is out in force protesting," Hogan said. "I want to thank the folks
involved in that. So far it has been peaceful. We want to try to keep things under
control. The last thing we need is more violence in Baltimore City." Hogan said city
police will remain on the front lines as the demonstrations, which began Saturday
and have been mostly peaceful, continue in city streets. The governor said the city
has asked for help, and that he would continue to grant it whenever asked. "We
don't want to interfere," he said. Thirty-two troopers with expertise in crowd control
arrived in Baltimore early Thursday afternoon, Maryland State Police spokesman
Sgt. Marc Black said. The team will be in place for help whenever the Baltimore City
Police department asks, he said. Aides to Hogan said that the state police will play a
secondary, support role in Baltimore as the city police handle ongoing protests.
(Baltimore Sun)
Two people were reportedly shot near a popular shopping center in Canton,
Baltimore police said. A man and a woman were found dead in a parked car near a
popular Canton shopping center in what police say is a possible murder/suicide.
Officers were called to the 3600 block of Boston St. around noon Thursday for a
report of a shooting, police said. When officers arrived they found two shooting
victims inside a parked car. The Baltimore City Fire Department pronounced them
dead at the scene, police said. City Councilman Jim Kraft, whose district includes the
shopping center, said on his Facebook page that police informed him the incident
appeared to be a domestic incident. "The shooting occurred within the automobile.
This was not a random act," he wrote. This story will be updated as more
information becomes available. (Baltimore Sun)
Kevin Moore was asleep in his home the morning of April 12, when his uncle yelled
to him: "The police are tazing Freddie." Moore said he found his friend handcuffed,
"screaming for his life," and planted face down on the ground with one Baltimore
bicycle police officer's knee on his neck and the other bicycle officer bending his
legs backward so that Gray's heels were in his back . "They had him folded up like
he was a crab or a piece of origami. He was all bent up," Moore said. "He said 'I can't
breathe. I need a pump,' and they ignored him," Moore said. Gray had asthma and
Deputy Police Commissioner Jerry Rodriguez confirmed at a press conference on
Monday that Gray asked for an inhaler, but police did not have one at the scene.
Moore said, "The police yelled 'stop resisting,' but there was no resistance. He
couldn't move." When police went to pick Gray off the ground, Moore said his friend
had limp legs. His cell phone video shows police carrying Gray to the van, his legs
dragging behind him. Gray appears to briefly stand on one leg just before entering
the van. (Baltimore Sun)
Gray is not the first person to come out of a Baltimore police wagon with serious
injuries. Relatives of Dondi Johnson Sr., who was left a paraplegic after a 2005 police
van ride, won a $7.4 million verdict against police officers. A year earlier, Jeffrey
Alston was awarded $39 million by a jury after he became paralyzed from the neck
down as the result of a van ride. Others have also received payouts after filing
lawsuits. For some, such injuries have been inflicted by what is known as a "rough
ride" an "unsanctioned technique" in which police vans are driven to cause
"injury or pain" to unbuckled, handcuffed detainees. As daily protests continue in
the streets of Baltimore, authorities are trying to determine how Gray was injured,
and their focus is on the 30-minute van ride that followed his arrest. "It's clear what
happened, happened inside the van," Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Monday
at a news conference. The most sensational case in Baltimore involved Johnson, a
43-year-old plumber who was arrested for public urination. He was handcuffed and
placed in a transport van in good health. He emerged a quadriplegic. Before he
died, he complained to his doctor that he was not buckled into his seat when the
police van "made a sharp turn," sending him "face first" into the interior of the van,
court records state. He was "violently thrown around the back of the vehicle as

[police officers] drove in an aggressive fashion, taking turns so as to injure

[Johnson] who was helplessly cuffed," the lawsuit stated. Johnson, who suffered a
fractured neck, died two weeks later of pneumonia caused by his paralysis. His
family sued, and a jury agreed that three officers were negligent in the way they
treated Johnson. Department policy governing "persons in police custody" now
requires officers to use seat belts to "prevent the detainee from maneuvering out of
the restraint and possibly causing injury to himself/herself or others." It also says
officers are required to take detainees to the nearest medical facility upon request.
(Baltimore Sun)
Citing the death of Freddie Gray from injuries sustained while in police custody,
Gov. Larry Hogan said Thursday that he will sign into law a bill making it legal for
police to wear body cameras. Hogan called the incident a tragedy and said video of
the arrest and its aftermath could have helped with the investigation. The bill
provides law enforcement officers with a specific exemption from state wiretapping
laws. Some police agencies have expressed concerns that officers would need to
seek permission from persons captured on devices that record video and audio or
be subject to legal sanctions. The governor also authorized the Maryland State
Police to be an additional presence in Baltimore City during ongoing protests related
to Grays death. Hogan later added that the Maryland State Police will be used to
assist Baltimore City Police during public demonstrations against the police related
to the death of Gray. (The Daily Record)
Gov. Larry Hogan committed Thursday to spending $2 million to fight heroin
addiction, the first time he has agreed to spend any of a $200 million pot of cash
that has stirred discord in Annapolis. The governor campaigned on addressing
Maryland's growing crisis of heroin deaths. In a wide-ranging interview with a
regional press association Thursday, he said he would spend the sum set aside by
lawmakers for heroin treatment. His comments follow two weeks of calls by
Democrats and others for the governor to commit to spending $200 million the
legislature cordoned off for its priorities: defraying expenses of public schools,
preventing a pay cut for state workers and funding a variety of health initiatives,
including for heroin treatment. (Baltimore Sun)

Shannon Cosgrove
Deputy Director, Mayors Office on
Criminal Justice

Office of
Mayor Stephanie
Rawlings-Blake

336 City Hall, 100 N. Holliday Street

Baltimore, MD 21202
Shannon.Cosgrove@baltimorecity.gov
410-916-9632 (Mobile)

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