The fatal police shooting Thursday in Southwest Baltimore brings up questions of how the city handles behavioral health emergencies — and why armed officers, rather than civilian crisis specialists, ...

Baltimore officials told an oversight panel that they were initiating a long-awaited upgrade to the city’s emergency dispatching system, months after an in-custody death during an outage. The City ...

Months before a man died following a computer-aided dispatch system outage, a Baltimore official warned that the ailing emergency communications network, which routes 911 calls to police and fire ...

Baltimore officials and police are touting the city’s multimillion-dollar gunshot detection system — though officers found evidence of a shooting after fewer than a quarter of the system’s alerts in ...