Governor O’Malley’s 15 Strategic Policy Goals
5. Reduce Violent Crimes Committed Against Women and Children by 25% by End 2012
Reducing violent crime is the responsibility of all Marylanders. Those crimes committed against women and children are especially heinous, because they can impact a family for generations. To improve public safety and enhance the quality of life for all Marylanders, particularly for Maryland’s women and children, the O’Malley-Brown Administration has set a goal and is implementing a plan to reduce violent crime against women and children by 25% by the end of 2012.
Progress to Date
Juvenile homicides have dropped by 36% since 2006, easily surpassing the state's reduction goal. Female homicides have dropped 17% since 2006, and have seen reductions in every year since 2008. (2011 data is preliminary)
Resources for Victims
Maryland Community Service Locator
Directory of Crime Victim Services, Office for Victims of Crime
Domestic Violence Programs, Maryland Department of Human Resources
Maryland Domestic Violence Network
Maryland Crime Victims' Resource Center, Inc.
Maryland Safe at Home Address Confidentiality Program
Delivering Results
- Expanded Operation Safe Kids, a proven public health-based approach to providing intensive services to high-risk youth, in Baltimore City and Prince George’s County.
Maryland State Police and the Division of Parole & Probation are working with local warrant task forces to assist in closing warrants for violent and dangerous offenders.- Created public safety dashboard, receiving up to 40,000 inquiries a day from local and state law enforcement.
- Expanded GPS monitoring for the highest risk adult and juvenile offenders.
- Expanded evidence based services programming for youth in the juvenile services system.
Expanded public safety information sharing agreements with border and regional states.- Enhanced supervision protocols for domestic violence offenders.
- Successfully fought for legislation taking firearms out of the hands of domestic abusers.
- Expanded use of polygraph testing for post-conviction sex offenders.
Progress toward delivery is monitored by the GDU, and assessed regularly at agency and cross-agency Stat meetings
More Information
- Governor's Office of Crime Control and Preventions (GOCCP)
- Lt. Governor Brown Releases Domestic Violence Hospital Report
- Governor O'Malley, Lt. Governor Brown Honored for Efforts to Stop Domestic Violence
- First Lady Katie O'Malley's Delivers Domestic Violence Lecture to University of Baltimore Law Students
- Hoppital-based domestic violence programs
- Administration's Commitment to Fighting Domestic Violence
