The Baltimore City Council's Ongoing Fight for a Comprehensive, Coordinated Gun Violence Reduction Strategy for Baltimore
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Updated: 26 Nov 2019
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Public Safety Committee,
chaired by Councilman Brandon
Scott, releases "Live To Be More:
A Comprehensive Gun Violence
Reduction Strategy"Councilman Scott introduces 17-0002R,
requesting a Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy between
BPD, the Health Department, DPW,
DOT, Rec and Parks, MOED, Housing,
CitiStat, and BDC.Councilman Scott holds first public
hearing on a Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy (17-0002R).City Council adopts Resolution
17-0002R: Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy.Councilman Scott introduces 17-0059R
to begin regular discussions on BPD
staffing, recruitment, and retention
and its impact on curtailing the rise
in violence crime.Councilman Scott holds second public
hearing on a Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy (17-0002R).
The hearing is started, but then abruptly
ended by Councilman Scott because of
dissatisfaction with a lack of a crime-fighting
plan by the Mayor's Office.Councilman Scott holds third public
hearing on a Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy (17-0002R).Councilman Scott introduces 18-0060R:
Multi-Year Coordinated Comprehensive
Multi-Agency Violence Reduction Strategy,
to request MOCJ coordinates with all
city agencies to produce a comprehensive
crime plan for Baltimore.Councilman Scott holds first public
hearing on the Multi-Year Coordinated
Comprehensive Multi-Agency Violence
Reduction Strategy (18-0060R).Councilman Scott holds second public
hearing on the Multi-Year Coordinated
Comprehensive Multi-Agency Violence
Reduction Strategy (18-0060R).Councilman Scott holds third public
hearing on the Multi-Year Coordinated
Comprehensive Multi-Agency Violence
Reduction Strategy (18-0060R).Councilman Scott holds fourth public
hearing on the Multi-Year Coordinated
Comprehensive Multi-Agency Violence
Reduction Strategy (18-0060R).Council President Scott introduces
an ordinance requiring the creation
of a Biennial Comprehensive Crime
Reduction Plan (19-0451).Council President participates in
hearing on a bill he introduced,
19-0451: Biennial Comprehensive
Crime Reduction Plan.
The Mayor's Office presents no
progress on a comprehensive plan
and says the only plan that will exist
is the Police Commissioner's.Councilman Scott holds a worksession
on a Coordinated Agency Violence
Reduction Strategy (17-0002R).Councilman Scott holds a voting
session on a Coordinated Agency
Violence Reduction Strategy (17-0002R).Council President Scott and Councilman
Eric Costello call on Police Commissioner
Harrison to present a crime plan by
Friday's budget hearing on BPD.
“BPD must prepare a crime reduction plan
to be included in the City’s comprehensive
violence reduction plan, and BPD must
make that plan available to the City Council.”Commissioner Harrison announces BPD's
Crime Plan at Police Headquarters.
Mayor Young remarks that a compliment
to the Commissioner's plan, detailing the
role city agencies can play in the crime fight,
will be released in the coming weeks.
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