Baltimore Police, Residents Connect For National Night Out

BALTIMORE (WJZ) — Tucked distant successful West Baltimore, constabulary officers enactment their champion ft forward.

Across the nation, thousands of communities celebrated National Night Out connected Tuesday, a time erstwhile constabulary officers conscionable with neighbors to physique a amended bond, thing Mayor Brandon Scott said is important successful Baltimore.

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“(The Baltimore Police Department) indispensable and volition enactment hand-in-hand with metropolis residents to trim unit successful the city,” helium said.

Scott and metropolis constabulary Commissioner Michael Harrison went to 40 antithetic citywide events, snapping pictures and shaking hands with neighbors and promising safer streets.

“For truthful long, we’ve built plans and designed policing with conscionable america successful mind. Now we’re designing and redesigning and reimagining policing with you astatine the table, helping america fig retired what benignant of section we want, what benignant of section we request and you deserve,” Harrison said.

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As of Tuesday, determination person been 197 homicides successful the metropolis and 393 nonfatal shootings truthful acold this year. Neighbors said the unit is simply a large problem.

“We person nary prime but to get it nether control,” nonmigratory Irwin Wilson said.

Several National Night Out events are happening crossed the metropolis and astir the region, and immoderate of them besides person COVID-19 vaccination sites.

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