The payout, which comes on top of a $1.5 million settlement from the state, covers the time David Morris spent in pretrial detention.

Murders have steeply declined and the mayor calls Baltimore “the model for violence reduction.” But what does it mean that arrests for murder have largely stayed the same for two decades?

A generous campaign contributor and former Democratic Central Committee member, Kalman Finkelstein’s name was never mentioned as the Board of Estimates approved the expenditure.