June 14, 2022 12:00 pm EST

Baltimore, MD— June 14, 2022-- On May 25, 2022, Baltimore Action Legal Team received a list of 307 names of officers with integrity issues. The list contains 301 unique names after eliminating duplicates and non officers. Disclosure of this list came after two and a half years in court and only after the Court of Special Appeals ordered its release.

The list does not contain the reason or rationale for placing an officer’s name on the list. BALT has requested further information from BPD, but we have yet to receive any files. The Baltimore City Law Department (who represents BPD in litigation) is actively denying our ability to determine why an officer may be on this list. The law clearly states that these officer’s files must be disclosed, but the Law Department refuses to disclose files on any officers.

Without having access to the actual misconduct files, we still have found shocking results from reviewing this list.

Of the 301 names: there are 187 officers, 52 sergeants, 2 majors, 1 lieutenant colonel, 1 deputy commissioner, and 41 without a specified rank. Due to an MPIA request submitted by OJB, we know that as of November 2021, 198 of the names on the list are active. The list contained 11 Gun Trace Task Force officers.

Of the 301 names, there are at least 3,400 cases attached to these names as “officer” or “complainant” between the District and Circuit Courts for Baltimore City. Preliminarily, this includes about 2,585 cases at the trial level, 172 post conviction matters, and 698 cases on appeal. This does not consider the number of convictions resulting from involvement of officers on the list.

We will continue to release information as it is obtained.

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Andy Krew

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