Justine BarronJan 2713 minThe United States vs. Marilyn Mosby“Is that all there is?” Peggy Lee sang in the 1969 song about the anti-climax of life’s big moments: Her house caught fire as a child;...
Justine BarronApr 8, 202112 minThree Years Later: Consequences and Casualties in the Sean Suiter Cover-Up (Part 3) Two different Baltimore residents got tangled up in the city's desperate efforts to clean up the mess around Suiter's death, with...
Justine BarronFeb 3, 20219 minThree Years Later: There's Something About Mary, the "Prostitute" in the Sean Suiter Case (Part 2)A closer look at the story behind why Detectives Sean Suiter and David Bomenka were on Bennett Place and how BPD homicide sought to bury...
Justine BarronNov 16, 202017 minThree Years Later: Myths and Conflicts in the Death of Sean Suiter (Part 1 of 3)Journalism vs. Evidence It’s been three years since Baltimore Police Department (BPD) Detective Sean Suiter was killed, on November 15,...
Justine BarronMay 25, 20206 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,...
Justine BarronJan 28, 202010 minThiru on MessageThe mayoral candidate attempts to rewrite the facts around what happened during a traffic stop and its significance, with help from the...
Justine BarronJan 20, 202014 minThiru On Greenmount Body camera footage shows a Baltimore mayoral candidate in a different light Note: I reached out to Thiru Vignarajah for comment on this...
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 Some families heat up around Thanksgiving, a...
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...
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...
Justine BarronJul 21, 20198 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...
Justine BarronMay 30, 20199 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...
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...
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?...
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...
Justine BarronDec 30, 20188 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...
Justine BarronNov 23, 20186 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...
Justine BarronNov 15, 20184 minThe Suiter Files: Hello.For reference: Investigative series on Suiter's death, written over the last year, as information unfolded. Hello! It has been exactly...