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Facing community pressure amid investigations into the death of Freddie Gray in 2015<\/a> and the rogue operation of the Gun Trace Task Force in 2017<\/a>, Brandon Scott, then-City Council president, introduced a law to publicize misconduct lawsuits against Baltimore Police.<\/p>\n

Around five years later, the law is being flouted by people that Scott, as mayor, put into positions of authority to oversee the city’s legal commitments.<\/p>\n

A Baltimore Sun analysis found that the city failed to properly report police misconduct lawsuits and settlements this year as required by that law. Experts say repercussions for the reporting agency are unlikely, since the law doesn’t outline any.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no teeth in laws like this,\u201d said\u00a0Matt Zernhelt, a Baltimore-based attorney and University of Maryland School of Law professor.<\/p>\n

The law, enacted in 2020, requires the department to release semi-annual reports on police misconduct litigation in January and August. The City Law Department failed to publish a report in January.<\/p>\n

Department spokesperson and deputy solicitor Stephen Salsbury did not respond to questions asking why the report was filed late, but said that department staff will work to publish future reports in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n

The law department misses its deadline<\/h4>\n

The city law department published a partial version of a report in May in response to multiple requests from The Sun.<\/p>\n

The Sun’s analysis compared that version to a Baltimore City Board of Estimates database, and found several police misconduct settlements were missing from the May report, which lists only one lawsuit filed in 2023 and 2024 each.\u00a0The report lists none that were filed in 2022 or this year.<\/p>\n

The May report also was missing information like the dates some cases were filed, and their outcomes.<\/p>\n

The Sun also found more documentation and news reporting on other cases that were omitted from the report.<\/p>\n

According to the May report, between 24 and 36 police misconduct cases were filed annually from 2017 to 2021, but those totals dropped dramatically in 2022, and have remained low.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Eldridge, a Baltimore Police spokesperson, said that the recent decline in lawsuits are tied\u00a0to the department\u2019s new policies, comprehensive training and accountability reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur department is committed to self-assessment, self-correction and early intervention, ensuring that issues are identified and addressed before escalating to serious misconduct,\u201d Eldridge wrote in a statement emailed to The Sun.<\/p>\n

But Philip Stinson, a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University heading the school’s Police Integrity Research Group, and leading National Institute of Justice-funded research into U.S. police crime, said it was “hard to believe\u201d the law department had seen such a steep decline in recent years’ misconduct cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the population of the city of Baltimore, the number of sworn officers employed by the Baltimore City Police Department, and the number of cases filed in prior years, I find [the decrease in misconduct lawsuits in this report] surprising,\u201d Stinson said.<\/p>\n

Stinson said policing practices have largely stayed the same during his two decades of studying police misconduct, despite police reforms being at the forefront of public discourse.<\/p>\n

Baltimore Police Accountability Board Vice Chair Joshua Harris said that the board has encountered faulty reporting pertaining to misconduct complaints shared by the Baltimore Police Department, which often go underreported and lack important information like geographical data.<\/p>\n

Harris said keeping the public informed on police misconduct cases and how to file them are part and parcel to motivating citizens to call for police reform.<\/p>\n

Several cases weren’t reported<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Among the cases missing from the law department\u2019s recent report are some notable police settlements from the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

Three teenagers received settlements<\/a> from the city in May after suffering serious injuries in a crash after a police officer ran a red light without activating his siren.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the city paid a $225,000<\/a> settlement to a woman who was shot by a stray bullet fired by an officer in pursuit of a different person.<\/p>\n

After Dennis Freeman lost his leg when he was struck by a police vehicle who ran a red light at 40 mph without its\u00a0 sirens on in 2023, he threatened to sue the city. Before the case made it to court, the city settled<\/a> with Freeman on behalf of the city, paying him $720,000. Numerous cases like these are not reported by the city, since they are not filed in state or federal court.<\/p>\n

The Sun\u2019s analysis also found that the report identified only 23 lawsuits totaling about $17.2 million related to the police department’s Gun Trace Task Force.\u00a0But a tracker<\/a> of settlement figures maintained by the Board of Estimates has the total spent by the city at nearly $23 million across 41 cases filed by victims of the task force.<\/p>\n

What are the consequences?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Zernhelt, who has won appellate cases against BPD and the city, told The Sun the law department will likely see no consequences for failing to publish an accurate and timely report of misconduct cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf [the law department doesn’t] follow the law, they have carte blanche until someone with the resources can come and challenge them,\u201d said Zernhelt.<\/p>\n

He said a public information lawsuit may result in a court order for the department to release the correct information \u2014 without any legal repercussions, though the department may be subject to oversight from the Office of the Inspector General if it fails to meet reporting deadlines.<\/p>\n

The Inspector General\u2019s office has previously stepped in to probe the law department, including in recent case involving a fraudulent settlement check. The office issued formal recommendations after uncovering these issues, and the law department adopted these reforms.<\/p>\n

Scott, who appointed City Solicitor Ebony Thompson to lead the law department, is a vocal proponent<\/a> of settling and publicizing cases of police misconduct and has been since his time in City Council, calling them a \u201creminder that [the city has] an obligation to own mistakes that were made\u201d by law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Scott’s office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consequences of the lawsuits<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Cary Hansel, a Baltimore-based attorney who represented three Gun Trace Task Force victims, said that police misconduct settlements are valuable investments in police integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there\u2019s a good argument to be had that lawsuits, together with the reporting of the facts that they uncover, are the two most important things that drive [police] reform,\u201d said Hansel.<\/p>\n

Hansel referenced the consent decree<\/a> agreement between the Baltimore\u00a0Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice, which he said was influenced by police misconduct suits, including the case of Freddie Gray, whose family received a $3.5 million settlement in 2022.<\/p>\n

In April, a federal judge lifted two sections of the decree<\/a>, ruling that the police department has improved its transportation of people in custody \u2014 a section shaped greatly by the conditions of Gray\u2019s death \u2014 and police officer mental health support.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Mark Conway, who chairs the Baltimore City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee, said recent police reforms could have led to a drop in police misconduct claims, adding that he doubts the reduction is as extreme as the law department\u2019s report suggests.<\/p>\n

Since the Gun Trace Task Force claims make up a large portion of Baltimore\u2019s police misconduct settlements, Conway posited that the dwindling number of open cases relating to the task force could contribute to a decrease.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get tons of complaints [from]\u00a0lots of people who have poor interactions with police officers across the city,” Conway said. “Those don\u2019t always necessarily reach the legal stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Baltimore Police Department is a very different department today. Conway said that officers are now much more thoughtful about how they interact with the public, in large part due to the consent decree.<\/p>\n

Harris acknowledged that the accountability board has noticed improvements in policing, and a decline in misconduct complaints, albeit at a lower rate than the law department’s report suggests.<\/p>\n

The department still has a ways to go in terms of transparency, said Harris, adding that an important factor in the decline in police misconduct claims is that not enough people know how to file them.<\/p>\n

He blamed this on the convoluted filing system \u2014 with several different channels of lodging the claims, and one of the most prominent being recently dissolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need data to tell the story, and if we have the wrong data, we may be telling the wrong story,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n

Have a news tip? Contact Mathew Schumer at\u00a0mschumer@baltsun.com, 443-890-7423 and on X as @mmmschumer.<\/em><\/p>\n

Editor’s note:<\/strong> The story has been updated to correct Joshua Harris’ title.This article noted that a settlement for $720,000 to a man hit by a police cruiser was not included in the Law Department’s data set provided to The Sun. This article has been updated to clarify that while the man did threaten the city with a lawsuit, he never filed and received a settlement instead.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Facing community pressure amid investigations into the death of Freddie Gray in 2015<\/a> and the rogue operation of the Gun Trace Task Force in 2017<\/a>, Brandon Scott, then-City Council president, introduced a law to publicize misconduct lawsuits against Baltimore Police.<\/p>\n

Around five years later, the law is being flouted by people that Scott, as mayor, put into positions of authority to oversee the city's legal commitments.<\/p>\n

A Baltimore Sun analysis found that the city failed to properly report police misconduct lawsuits and settlements this year as required by that law. Experts say repercussions for the reporting agency are unlikely, since the law doesn't outline any.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no teeth in laws like this,\u201d said\u00a0Matt Zernhelt, a Baltimore-based attorney and University of Maryland School of Law professor.<\/p>\n

The law, enacted in 2020, requires the department to release semi-annual reports on police misconduct litigation in January and August. The City Law Department failed to publish a report in January.<\/p>\n

Department spokesperson and deputy solicitor Stephen Salsbury did not respond to questions asking why the report was filed late, but said that department staff will work to publish future reports in a timely fashion.<\/p>\n

The law department misses its deadline<\/h4>\n

The city law department published a partial version of a report in May in response to multiple requests from The Sun.<\/p>\n

The Sun's analysis compared that version to a Baltimore City Board of Estimates database, and found several police misconduct settlements were missing from the May report, which lists only one lawsuit filed in 2023 and 2024 each.\u00a0The report lists none that were filed in 2022 or this year.<\/p>\n

The May report also was missing information like the dates some cases were filed, and their outcomes.<\/p>\n

The Sun also found more documentation and news reporting on other cases that were omitted from the report.<\/p>\n

According to the May report, between 24 and 36 police misconduct cases were filed annually from 2017 to 2021, but those totals dropped dramatically in 2022, and have remained low.<\/p>\n

Lindsey Eldridge, a Baltimore Police spokesperson, said that the recent decline in lawsuits are tied\u00a0to the department\u2019s new policies, comprehensive training and accountability reforms.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur department is committed to self-assessment, self-correction and early intervention, ensuring that issues are identified and addressed before escalating to serious misconduct,\u201d Eldridge wrote in a statement emailed to The Sun.<\/p>\n

But Philip Stinson, a criminology professor at Bowling Green State University heading the school's Police Integrity Research Group, and leading National Institute of Justice-funded research into U.S. police crime, said it was \"hard to believe\u201d the law department had seen such a steep decline in recent years' misconduct cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cBased on the population of the city of Baltimore, the number of sworn officers employed by the Baltimore City Police Department, and the number of cases filed in prior years, I find [the decrease in misconduct lawsuits in this report] surprising,\u201d Stinson said.<\/p>\n

Stinson said policing practices have largely stayed the same during his two decades of studying police misconduct, despite police reforms being at the forefront of public discourse.<\/p>\n

Baltimore Police Accountability Board Chair Joshua Harris said that the board has encountered faulty reporting pertaining to misconduct complaints shared by the Baltimore Police Department, which often go underreported and lack important information like geographical data.<\/p>\n

Harris said keeping the public informed on police misconduct cases and how to file them are part and parcel to motivating citizens to call for police reform.<\/p>\n

Several cases weren't reported<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Among the cases missing from the law department\u2019s recent report are some notable police settlements from the last couple of years.<\/p>\n

The city settled<\/a> with a man in February who lost his leg after being struck by a police vehicle three years ago.<\/p>\n

Three teenagers received settlements<\/a> from the city in May after suffering serious injuries in a crash after a police officer ran a red light without activating his siren.<\/p>\n

In 2023, the city paid a $225,000<\/a> settlement to a woman who was shot by a stray bullet fired by an officer in pursuit of a different person.<\/p>\n

The Sun\u2019s analysis also found that the report identified only 23 lawsuits totaling about $17.2 million related to the police department's Gun Trace Task Force.\u00a0But a tracker<\/a> of settlement figures maintained by the Board of Estimates has the total spent by the city at nearly $23 million across 41 cases filed by victims of the task force.<\/p>\n

What are the consequences?<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Zernhelt, who has won appellate cases against BPD and the city, told The Sun the law department will likely see no consequences for failing to publish an accurate and timely report of misconduct cases.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf [the law department doesn't] follow the law, they have carte blanche until someone with the resources can come and challenge them,\u201d said Zernhelt.<\/p>\n

He said a public information lawsuit may result in a court order for the department to release the correct information \u2014 without any legal\u00a0repercussions, though may be subject to oversight from the Office of the Inspector General if it fails to meet reporting deadlines.<\/p>\n

The Inspector General\u2019s office has previously stepped in to probe the law department, including in recent case involving a fraudulent settlement check. The office issued formal recommendations after uncovering these issues, and the law department adopted these reforms.<\/p>\n

Scott, who appointed City Solicitor Ebony Thompson to lead the law department, is a vocal proponent<\/a> of settling and publicizing cases of police misconduct and has been since his time in City Council, calling them a \u201creminder that [the city has] an obligation to own mistakes that were made\u201d by law enforcement.<\/p>\n

Mayor Scott's office did not respond to a request for comment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Consequences of the lawsuits<\/strong><\/h4>\n

Cary Hansel, a Baltimore-based attorney who represented three Gun Trace Task Force victims, said that police misconduct settlements are valuable investments in police integrity.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that there\u2019s a good argument to be had that lawsuits, together with the reporting of the facts that they uncover, are the two most important things that drive [police] reform,\u201d said Hansel.<\/p>\n

Hansel referenced the consent decree<\/a> agreement between the Baltimore\u00a0Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice, which he said was influenced by police misconduct suits, including the case of Freddie Gray, whose family received a $3.5 million settlement in 2022.<\/p>\n

In April, a federal judge lifted two sections of the decree<\/a>, ruling that the police department has improved its transportation of people in custody \u2014 a section shaped greatly by the conditions of Gray\u2019s death \u2014 and police officer mental health support.<\/p>\n

Councilmember Mark Conway, who chairs the Baltimore City Council\u2019s Public Safety Committee, said recent police reforms could have led to a drop in police misconduct claims, adding that he doubts the reduction is as extreme as the law department\u2019s report suggests.<\/p>\n

Since the Gun Trace Task Force claims make up a large portion of Baltimore\u2019s police misconduct settlements, Conway posited that the dwindling number of open cases relating to the task force could contribute to a decrease.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe get tons of complaints [from]\u00a0lots of people who have poor interactions with police officers across the city,\" Conway said. \"Those don\u2019t always necessarily reach the legal stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the Baltimore Police Department is a very different department today. Conway said that officers are now much more thoughtful about how they interact with the public, in large part due to the consent decree.<\/p>\n

Harris acknowledged that the accountability board has noticed improvements in policing, and a decline in misconduct complaints, albeit at a lower rate than the law department's report suggests.<\/p>\n

The department still has a ways to go in terms of transparency, said Harris, adding that an important factor in the decline in police misconduct claims is that not enough people know how to file them.<\/p>\n

He blamed this on the convoluted filing system \u2014 with several different channels of lodging the claims, and one of the most prominent being recently dissolved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe need data to tell the story, and if we have the wrong data, we may be telling the wrong story,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n

Have a news tip? Contact Mathew Schumer at\u00a0mschumer@baltsun.com, 443-890-7423 and on X as @mmmschumer.<\/em><\/p>\n","print_budget_line":"","print_excerpt":"Baltimore City failed to properly report police misconduct settlements this year as required by the mayor's own city law, passed in 2020, an analysis by The Baltimore Sun found.","print_notes":"","photo_limits":"Photo limits are: 1 featured image, 5 featured gallery images, 5 embedded gallery images and 5 in-article embedded images. Articles that exceed these limits will not export. 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