Mayor Scott hauls top safety brass into City Hall as Baltimore reels from shootings

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BALTIMORE (WBFF) — Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott called his top public safety leaders to City Hall on Tuesday as the city grapples with a recent surge in gun violence, including five mass shootings in the past five weeks.

The Mayor’s Office confirmed Scott summoned his public safety leadership team for a closed-door meeting focused on the rash of shootings and concerns that the latest violence could slow Baltimore’s historic, years-long reductions in gun violence. Police Commissioner Richard Worley and Stefanie Mavronis, director of the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, met with the mayor…

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