Annapolis, MD As Prepared for Delivery Good morning. Thank you Senator Joan Carter Conway, and Delegates Jay Walker, Lou Simmons, and Sandy Rosenberg for your work with our task forces on gun violence and mental health. Delegate Pete Hammen, thank you for your commitment to mental health initiatives in our State. And Vinnie DeMarco is Read the Rest…
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Posts Tagged ‘violence’
Public Safety Press Conference, January 18th, 2013
Johns Hopkins University Summit on Reducing Gun Violence in America, January 14th, 2013
Baltimore, MD President Daniels, thank you very much. And thank you for the amazing work that goes on here at Johns Hopkins, including here at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. It’s always a great honor to be here, especially to be the warm-up act for Mayor Bloomberg, a proud alumnus. Very few have done Read the Rest…
A crime fighting tool that works, July 19th, 2012
Over the past few years, DNA sampling has enabled us to take murderers, rapists and violent criminals off of our streets. That’s why we’re very grateful and heartened by Supreme Court Chief Justice Roberts ruling to resume the use of DNA sampling as a tool for our law enforcement efforts. In Maryland, we’ve driven down Read the Rest…
Believe, January 3rd, 2012
By Rick Abbruzzese, Director of Public Affairs Ten years ago, a television commercial aired simultaneously on all of the TV stations in Baltimore with a call to “Believe” that, together, we can make our city a safer and better place for kids to grow up. That jarring and disturbing commercial signaled the very public start Read the Rest…
An End to Domestic Violence, October 14th, 2011
Last week, Katie and I attended an event for the Montgomery County Family Justice Center where we listened to a young woman tell the story of how her ex-boyfriend nearly beat her to death with an 18-pound crucifix. It was only when her young daughter opened the door that the police was able to rush Read the Rest…
