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Baltimore City Council Committee Summons Police Commissioner

Following a weekend where eight people were killed in Baltimore, the City Council would like to know what the police department intends to do about the violence.

Councilman Brandon Scott, vice chair of the Public Safety Committee, asked for a hearing and requested Police Commissioner Anthony Batts appear at the meeting scheduled for 6 p.m., Wednesday at City Hall.

"The City of Baltimore has made great progress … [addressing] gun violence and other crime in the last five years, and it’s this council’s duty to make sure, as much as possible, that we don’t regress, and that’s why we’re having this hearing on Wednesday,” Scott said during Monday’s regular council meeting.

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Councilman Carl Stokes, who represents parts of Remington and Charles Village, was critical of the police’s response, especially a statement made by spokesman Anthony Gulielmi in The Baltimore Sun.

He told the newspaper: “…we’re pretty satisfied with the way the city is headed, violence-wise.”  

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Although recent violent crime in the city is garnering a good deal of news media attention, some of the most serious crime in North Baltimore is happening at a slower pace than a year ago.

According to the most recent Comstat figures, there has been one less murder, one less shooting and 19 fewer robberies in the Northern District compared to the same time last year. Although there have been two more street robberies reported in the same time period.  


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