a Black student at Bowie State University, visited friends at the University of Maryland College Park in 2017. A white student stabbed Collins to death at a bus stop.During the trial, prosecutors said the student singled out Collins, calling...
John McCarthy: We need tougher laws. As early as 2015, McCarthy began pushing to streamline Maryland law so state prosecutors can more easily convict dealers and distributors who supply the drugs that lead to overdose deaths. But it hasn't been easy. John McCarthy: We're not at a plac...
Through the new system, called Track-Kit, unique bar codes will be added to all sexual assault evidence kits collected in the state. Once a forensic exam is completed at a hospital, the victim will be given a bar code number and password. Law enforcement will...
Law enforcement is rooted in slave patrols of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and police enforcement of Jim Crow laws in the late nineteenth to mid twentieth centuries. Can a system rooted in slavery be reformed? Probably not. Rather than policing the effects of crime, a public safety ...
One study out of Chicago actually found that increasing the brightness of alleyways corresponded with a significant increase in crime. Jump to Comments Discuss in Forums Headline News Index So. Md. Police News So. Md. Government News So. Md Education News Md. State Gov. News Other Law ...
I went to the website of the Southern Poverty Law Center, which is known—or so I thought—for tracking hate groups. They even do a good job of defining hate crime as crimes where bias is the primary motive for committing the crime. So I was quite surprised to see that, according to...
Trump has repeatedly expressed hatred and disdain for those in American media who challenge him, and he has said that he will change libel law to allow the free press to be dragged into court if they write unflattering articles about him. While we all assume that such court cases would ...
Vice-Chair, Maryland 250 Commission, 2023-. Member, Commission on Hate Crime Response and Prevention, 2024-. Assistant State's Attorney, Baltimore County, 1991-2001 (law clerk, Investigation Division, 1988-91; prosecutor, District Court, 1991-94; prosecutor, Juvenile Court, 1994-95; prosecutor...
national security and safety in every neighborhood.We’ll provide the resources needed to ensure that our nation is strong and secure against foreign threats, while also providing our communities with the support needed to reduce crime with community-based and community-involved law enforcement ...
He said he heard the gunman shoot through a glass door on the first floor. Davis, a crime and courts reporter, said he wondered if they were all going to die when he heard the gunman reload. He said The Capital’s employees were just doing their jobs and had no motive to hate the ...