Baltimore, MD — January 20, 2026 Baltimore entered 2026 with cautious optimism. City leaders and community organizers had just celebrated a remarkable milestone: 133 homicides in 2025, the fewest in nearly half a century and a 31 percent decline compared with the year before — the latest in a multi-year downward trend hailed as historic. But in the first 16 days of January, that progress has already been called into question. Baltimore recorded seven homicides in the early we

Officer Robert Parks faces up to 65 years in prison as city leaders vow accountability amid renewed scrutiny of policing practices. Updated November 2025 BALTIMORE — The Baltimore Police officer seen in a viral video allegedly using his patrol car to chase down a man in Park Heights has been formally indicted  on multiple felony charges, including attempted second-degree murder , in a case that has reignited debate over police conduct and accountability in the city. According

Chasing Trust: A Viral Baltimore Police Video and the Hard Question of Reform Baltimore Police cruiser at dusk near an alley in Park Heights The clip is barely a minute long. It begins in the fading light of an early-evening Tuesday in the Park Heights neighborhood of Baltimore. A marked patrol car edges into an alleyway. A man runs. The police vehicle follows. Then it crashes through a fence into a yard. There are no gunshots. No screams. But the scene’s urgency — captured o