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Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said Wednesday she and Police Commissioner Anthony Batts are "examining" whether a sharp decrease in arrests is contributing to May becoming the deadliest month in Baltimore since the 1990s.
Through the first half of May, police made 828 arrests — fewer than half the 1909 made during the same time last year. This month, 36 people have been killed in Baltimore, the highest total for a month since 1999.
Batts has said police are struggling to stop violence in West Baltimore, where officers have been routinely surrounded by dozens of people, video cameras and hostility while performing basic police work since the death of Freddie Gray, the 25-year-old who died after suffering a spinal cord injury while in police custody. Six officers are charged criminally in Gray's death. Some police officers have said they feel hesitant on the job under intense public scrutiny.
The mayor said Wednesday "a lot of reasons" are contributing to the crime spike, but she believed Batts would get it under control.
More: www.baltimoresun.com
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