Justine BarronMay 256 minThiru and the Baltimore Sun, An EncoreThe Baltimore Sun reckons with the mayoral candidate's reputation, sort of (not really) Thiru Vignarajah, candidate for Baltimore mayor, was profiled in the ...
Justine BarronJan 2810 minThiru on MessageThe mayoral candidate attempts to rewrite the facts around what happened during a traffic stop and its significance, with help from the Baltimore Sun Thiru V...
Justine BarronJan 2014 minThiru On Greenmount Body camera footage shows a Baltimore mayoral candidate in a different light Note: Less than an hour after I requested comment from Vignarajah for this artic...
Justine BarronNov 11, 20199 minThe Battle over Sean Suiter: "Strained Relations" or Multi-Agency Cover Up?A look at what is not being discussed in the recent stories about the detective's death For reference, there are several articles at the top of this site abo...
Justine BarronOct 8, 20195 minWhat is going on with the State's Attorney's Office and Detective Sean Suiter?Deceased Detective Sean Suiter showed on a list of "corrupt" officers released by the State's Attorney's Office. A look at her office's quiet but important h...
Justine BarronSep 1, 20194 minMedia Watch: Why are Reporters Missing the SAO Story? A number of high-ranking departures at SAO point to a void in reporting on the powerful agency. In recent months, a large number of key personnel left the Ba...
Justine BarronJul 21, 20199 min#Mediawatch: Murder ObsessedIn a few days in mid-July, Baltimore Twitter was talking about how the murders went down during a heat wave, then went back up; how July's murder rate compar...
Justine BarronMay 30, 201910 minMedia Watch: The Fictional BPD Memorial Day RiotBREAKING NEWS: Saturday evening, May 25th, one or more hundred youth hung out at the Inner Harbor. Well, that's not really a story. It's a city. What if I to...
Justine BarronApr 26, 20197 minThe Baltimore Police Org Chart: A Journey Michael Harrison, the new commissioner of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD), has restructured and downsized the department. It seemed like a good opportu...
Justine BarronApr 1, 20196 minSome Dark-ish Money and Tangled Interests Behind the Baltimore Police DepartmentWho is the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and why do they keep popping up around the scenes of the Baltimore Police Department? A Baltimore Sun arti...
Justine BarronFeb 4, 20197 minThe Empty Promise of the Baltimore Consent Decree: A Progressive Critique Stories involving Baltimore policing are often presented, debated, and discussed among officials and media as if everything is normal and most of the Baltimo...
Justine BarronDec 30, 20189 minMedia Watch: The 2018 Baltimore Crime #MediaFail AwardsI hope you have enjoyed your annual wrap-ups on another terrible year in Baltimore crime stories, in which the local media continues to portray itself as an ...
Justine BarronNov 23, 20187 minMedia Watch-Holiday Edition: On Whistleblowers Earlier this week, on November 19th, a Baltimore Sun article credited one Sergeant Ryan Guinn, who teaches in the academy, with blowing the whistle on the Gu...
Justine BarronNov 15, 20185 minThe Suiter Files: Hello. Hello! It has been exactly one year since Detective Sean Suiter was killed. This website is about his case but also broader missives on related subjects, sha...
