Brandon Scott (Mayor of Baltimore)
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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My first day in office, December the 8th, 2020.
I uttered something that my staff did not want me to utter, and it still drives some of them crazy.
But it was the truth, right?
I said that we would always do the right thing, not the popular thing, even if it's politically bad for me.
changing the way that we did public safety at that time, right?
You're in here interviewing me in Baltimore because this comprehensive violence prevention plan has had like historical success that no one else has seen and that Baltimore is outpacing the country.
But at the time.
But at the time, right?
People were like,
We don't we shouldn't have a five year plan.
We needed to do it right now.
We need a plan for this month.
Right.
Like, yes, go back to the old way.
Sweep everyone up.
Do all the dumb things that didn't work before.
Right.
And I think even when they knew.
Right.
So if you think about 2004 in Baltimore, 270 homicides that year.
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