Baltimore’s Policing Dilemma: Ghost Gun Scenarios, The Wire, and a Violence Prevention Program that Fosters Violence

Baltimore experiences its worst mass shooting while city funded ‘violence interrupters’ withhold shooter info from cops. A cautionary tale for cities facing consent decrees.

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In 2019, my homicide sergeant, speaking to reporters, spoke the truth of our unsolved murders. The few unsolved cases for the year had plenty of witnesses but no one will do the right thing and come forward, even reporting anonymously to our Crime Stoppers program.

These were hardly ‘whodunits.’ They were unsolved becaus…