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Confronted with news of crime facing Baltimore, Mayor Brandon Scott decides to change the subject, writes Armstrong Williams.
Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott speaks with NPR's Michel Martin about how the city has been working to reduce violent crime, now at historic lows, according to city data.
If the end game for the current administration were truly crime reduction, they would celebrate the progress made in DC.
President Donald Trump’s declaration that Washington, D.C., is a “crime-ridden wasteland” has drawn sharp pushback from Black mayors across the country, who say the president is distorting reality to ...
Members of the African American Mayors Association started noticing last year declines in violent crime in their cities.