Baltimore City Crime Crackdown Plan Calls On Police To Regain Publics Trust

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BALTIMORE (WJZ)Taking it out of City Hall and onto the street. Thats what Baltimores mayor and top cop did Tuesday to sell an expanded crime crackdown.

Alex DeMetrick reports that in order for the plan to work, police will have to win over neighborhoods that dont always trusts in the cops.

The location was near the remains of a street corner memorial.

There was a young man that was murdered right there on that spot, said Baltimore City Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.

But police that swarmed it Tuesday were on a mission from City Hall that brought its own heat to the street in a neighborhood nicknamed CHM, for Cold Spring, Homestead and Lake Montebello.

CHM is one of four enforcement zones where the focus is on violent repeat offenders, parolees, probationers, those recidivists that impact a region, Batts said.

Its a strategy the mayor and her police commissioner are expanding to 17 enforcement zones.

But police admit to make the arrests that make a difference will take the communitys help, meaning tips and information.

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Baltimore City Crime Crackdown Plan Calls On Police To Regain Publics Trust