“Charm City,” Part 4: The Police Scandal That Shook Baltimore

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The New York Times

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4.4 • 102.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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As the Baltimore Police Department tried to repair its public image, a corruption trial exposed the startling depths of misconduct and delivered a fresh blow to the community’s trust. An elite group of officers — part of a task force created during the peak of zero-tolerance policing — had been stealing from residents for years. For more information on today’s episode, visit nytimes.com/thedaily. This episode includes disturbing language and scenes of graphic violence.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times on Michael Barbaro, this is the Daily.
0:07.0	Today.
0:10.0	Part four of our series about race and policing in Baltimore.
0:14.0	As the city tries to start fresh,
0:17.0	something happens that reveals new deaths of police misconduct
0:22.0	and delivers a fresh blow to the community's trust.
0:30.0	It's Thursday, June 7.
0:40.0	Good morning.
0:47.0	Let us begin.
0:52.0	Catherine, EPU, please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
0:58.0	Raise your right hand.
1:01.0	So when a new mayor comes in at the end of 2016,
1:05.0	the violence in Baltimore is some of the worst the city has ever seen.
1:10.0	I.
1:13.0	Catherine Elizabeth Pugh, do solemnly swear.
1:18.0	And a week after this new mayor, Catherine Pugh, was sworn in,
1:22.0	Nukwas shot.
1:23.0	He was one of the last killings of the year.
1:26.0	So the homicides were urgent, but so was reform.
1:30.0	There's been issues around policing in Baltimore for quite some time,
1:34.0	mass incarceration, lack of trust, lack of technology in our police department.
1:40.0	A few months ago, we went to see her and the police commissioner, Darrell D'Souza,
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