Mayoral Candidate Mitchell Offers Police Plan

Baltimore’s mayoral rivals traded proposals for beefing up the city’s police force Thursday.
Calling for 250 more police officers and a 15 percent raise across the board for current city officers, mayoral candidate Keiffer Mitchell stood on the corner of Calverton and Baltimore streets, the scene of one of the city’s 167 homicides this year.
‘We’re in a crisis. It’s no longer acceptable for Baltimore to be the image of violence around the country,” said Mitchell, a city councilman.
Mitchell, D. District 11, promised to use the additional police to close out open cases.
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