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Baltimore Police Department’s Misconduct Scandals Result in Hundreds of Dismissals and Indictment of Eight Officers
Loaded on Dec. 19, 2017
by Derek Gilna
published in Criminal Legal News
January, 2018, page 21
Filed under:
Police Misconduct.
Location:
Maryland.
by Derek Gilna
A federal racketeering investigation into Baltimore Police Department misconduct has resulted in the dismissal of approximately 300 pending prosecutions and investigations into an additional 850, including some that were already closed. News reports revealed that body camera footage from three separate incidents during the summer …
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