Overview
- City data show 40 homicides and 120 non‑fatal shootings through May, a roughly 23% decline from the same period last year.
- Mayor Brandon Scott said May closed with eight homicides, which he described as the city's first single‑digit May total in more than five decades.
- City and state leaders credit a multiagency approach that includes the Group Violence Reduction Strategy, its recent expansion to the Northern District, and the Safe Streets interrupters program.
- Baltimore police report seizing more than 850 firearms this year, including 88 ghost guns, and making about 535 gun‑related arrests while other crimes such as carjackings, burglaries and robberies have also fallen.
- Serious incidents persist: a playground shooting that struck an 11‑year‑old and a 26‑year‑old and an armed bank robbery followed by an I‑895 pursuit and arrest underscore officials' view that continued enforcement, prosecutions and community work are needed.