City of Baltimore - File #: 07-0288R

• File #: 07-0288R
• Version: 0
• Name: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Gun Violence
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Failed - End of Term
• File created: 4/23/2007
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 12/5/2007
• Title: Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Gun Violence FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore Police Commissioner to report to the City Council on the incidence of gun violence in Baltimore City; to discuss the factors that may be contributing to gun related crime and the nature of the perpetrators; and to share the crime reduction strategies that are planned to stem the tide of gun violence that threatens to overtake Baltimore's residential neighborhoods.
• Sponsors: President Young, Nicholas C. D'Adamo, James B. Kraft, Robert Curran, Helen L. Holton, Vernon E. Crider, Sharon Green Middleton, Mary Pat Clarke, Stephanie President Rawlings-Blake, Kenneth Harris, Rochelle Spector, Edward Reisinger, Keiffer Mitchell
• Indexes: Homicide, Investigative Hearing, Resolution

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
4/26/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/26/2007	0	The City Council	Referred for a Report
4/23/2007	0	City Council	Introduced
4/23/2007	0	City Council	Assigned

* WARNING: THIS IS AN UNOFFICIAL, INTRODUCTORY COPY OF THE BILL.
THE OFFICIAL COPY CONSIDERED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IS THE FIRST READER COPY.
INTRODUCTORY*

CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Young


A RESOLUTION ENTITLED

A COUNCIL RESOLUTION concerning
Title
Investigative Hearing - Baltimore City Gun Violence

FOR the purpose of requesting the Baltimore Police Commissioner to report to the City Council on the incidence of gun violence in Baltimore City; to discuss the factors that may be contributing to gun related crime and the nature of the perpetrators; and to share the crime reduction strategies that are planned to stem the tide of gun violence that threatens to overtake Baltimore's residential neighborhoods.
Body
Recitals

* January 1, 2007: PATTERNS PERSIST IN CITY HOMICIDES AND SHOOTINGS - VICTIMS, SUSPECTS USUALLY BLACK MEN WITH LONG CRIMINAL HISTORIES - RATE IS AMONG HIGHEST IN U.S.

* January 9, 2007: CITY HOMICIDE COUNT RISES TO 9 - POLICE IDENTIFY THREE VICTIMS OF RECENT VIOLENCE - MAN ARRESTED IN FATAL BEATING

* March 24, 2007: CITY HOMICIDES, SHOOTINGS RISE - SO FAR, 64 PEOPLE KILLED IN '07 COMPARED WITH 58 IN '06 - FIGURES SHOW DROP IN ROBBERIES, ASSAULTS

* April 2, 2007: DOES BALTIMORE CITY NEED MORE POLICE?

* April 4, 2007: MURDER INK: MURDERS THIS WEEK: 6 - MURDERS THIS YEAR: 71.

These are the leads to newspaper stories that have greeted crime weary and worried Baltimore City residents each morning since the dawning of the new year. The question reverberates - what can be done?


In the January 2005, document, The Mission of Every Member...