Capital News Service
Crime fell across Baltimore City in 2024, which the Mayor’s office said is thanks in part to programs like Safe Streets, the city’s primary violence reduction program, which is administered by Lifebridge Health Center for Hope. Now, despite a year of landmark achievements, the center is in peril.
Center for Hope and other community-based crime prevention programs are facing an existential threat in the form of budget cuts — amounting to $1.2 million —- from the Trump administration. Without those funds, last year’s progress on citywide crime reduction may be erased, according to Freedom Jones, director of violence intervention programs for Center for Hope…