Baltimore — In the shadow of a summer block-party massacre that left two dead and nearly two-dozen wounded, a quiet but determined effort has taken root in one of the city’s most embattled neighborhoods. The program, known as Safe Streets Baltimore, seeks to treat gun violence not merely as a crime problem but as a public-health emergency — one that can be interrupted, redirected and healed. Launched in 2007, Safe Streets was modeled on the Chicago-based Cure Violence interve

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

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