Crime & Safety
Prioritizing Police Work and Growing Graffiti: The Week’s Best of Police and Fire Reporting
Patch reports on cops, crime and occasional chaos in your community.
From a deadly shooting to putting off a battle than can wait another day, Patch has got you covered on the fire and police beat.
After refusing repeated commands to drop her weapon, a Hampstead woman armed with a gun and threatening suicide was shot and killed by a trooper after she continued to point the gun at officers. Westminster Patch has the story.
Picture of a Problem: Graffiti Increasing in Columbia
Since 2000, there has been a 25 percent increase in graffiti in Columbia. The Dobbin Road corridor in particular has been hard hit over the past few years, so why aren’t police concerned about it...yet? To get the law-enforcement stance on public paint, go to Columbia Patch.
CSI, FBI, 3D, DNA: Tag along with local editor Diana Soliwon as she learns the role each of these abbreviations plays in the latest lecture for students of the Baltimore County Citizens Police Academy on Owings Mills Patch.
In an unexpected twist of events, Maryland State Police and volunteers discovered the body of an unidentified man at Patapsco State Park during what was actually a massive manhunt for someone else: Phylicia Barnes, a teenage girl missing from the Baltimore area since December. Find out more on Savage-Guilford Patch.
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