A Year In Baltimore: 300 Homicides, Again, And Searching For A Fourth Police Chief
Baltimore is working to fill its police commissioner job yet again. If Fort Worth Police Chief Joel Fitzgerald is confirmed, he'll be Baltimore's fourth chief in the span of a year.
Joel Fitzgerald is vying to become Baltimore's fourth police commissioner in the span of roughly a year. But his path to confirmation may become more complicated after a report surfaced alleging he overstated some of his accomplishments in Fort Worth, Texas, where he's served since 2015.
The Baltimore Sun found Fitzgerald embellished his role instituting the Fort Worth Police Department's body camera program and that he took credit for the department's improved reporting on racial profiling despite a law Texas mandating such efforts.
On Saturday, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund calling for the city to withdraw Fitzgerald's nomination and consider other
