Officials commit to boosting public safety funding as $8 million in earmarks announced.
The federal funds are Baltimore’s first in Congress’s revived earmarks program — the allocation of federal dollars for specific projects — and are meant to stem crime and help the Baltimore Police Department comply with its federal consent decree.
The police department will receive about $5.3 million for four projects: a 911 diversion program, updating the records management system, increasing community collaboration with police and helping to develop neighborhood policing plans. Baltimore has recorded at least 300 homicides every year since 2015, but Sen. Ben Cardin, a Democrat, said that all of Baltimore’s federal delegation believe in Scott’s ability to get a handle on things and that the earmarks are proof.
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