Justice
Grading Baltimore's Mayor on Her Own Advice for Police
Stephanie Rawlings-Blake and other mayors put together a January set of guidelines for cities on improving police-community relations. She's followed few of them herself.
Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake couldn't have known in January that a citywide standoff between protesters and police was coming. But she was thinking about it.
Back in the winter, she and several other mayors assembled to write a set of city guidelines for improving the relationship between police and the public. That working-group report—compiled by seven mayors and seven police chiefs of 10 different cities for the U.S. Conference of Mayors—outlines six areas for improvement.