Baltimore City Police Commissioner Michael Harrison cautioned that calls for defunding or dramatically reforming the police department need to be tempered with realistic expectations about how to maintain important services. Read More...
Commissioner Harrison and his leadership team are to be commended for their steady efforts to reform the police department, build trust and accountability in communities and get guns off the street. Read More...
"Many of the suggestions that we made came from Baltimore's consent decree," said Commissioner Harrison. "We have the most progressive and comprehensive and expansive consent decree in all of America." Read More...
Please join the GBC and Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison for a conversation on how the Baltimore Police Department and other law enforcement agencies across the country are addressing the calls for major police reform. Commissioner Harrison, who was appointed to the U.S. Conference of Mayors’ Police Reform and Racial... Read More...
Join the Greater Baltimore Committee for Public Safety in Baltimore – Does Progress Lie Ahead? with Baltimore City Police Commissioner Michael Harrison. Learn more from Baltimore City’s 41st Police Commissioner by participating in a discussion on: Factors driving violent crime in Baltimore City Crime reduction strategies including the Focused Deterrence... Read More...
The GBC commends Commissioner Harrison for his thoughtful and deliberative approach in developing a program that takes advantage of enhanced technology. Read More...
Baltimore continues to see high rates of violent crime, especially shootings and homicides. But a crime reduction strategy issued by the city’s new Police Commissioner provides a road map to bring about change. There’s a lot to like in Police Commissioner Michael Harrison’s strategy. The strategy aims to address crime... Read More...