Brandon Scott (Mayor of Baltimore)

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Lemonade Stand · What Can Be Done? | Ep. 047 Lemonade Stand 🍋 · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

I spend a lot of time understanding what the police department's responsibility is.

I'm in city hall and city government when CVI comes to Baltimore.

So I'm growing up and maturing at a time where I can see I lived through zero tolerance when if you were black and breathing and you were walking, you could just go to jail simply for that reason.

But the violent state...

So throughout my time on the city council, I was the vice chair and then chair of the public safety committee and then became the chair of the president of the council.

I talked about a lot of that Baltimore had to change the way we thought and operated when it came to gun violence, that we could not put the sole responsibility of making Baltimore a safer place on the back of the women and men at BPD.

Right.

Just from a sheer math problem.

Anybody who is thinking with their brain and not with the motion, their emotion understands that at its heyday, Baltimore Police Department had three thousand police officers.

Right.

And we'll just say in a city of six hundred thousand.

Right.

Six hundred thousand people.

Well, only about a thousand of them ever work at the same time.

One thousand people can't keep six hundred thousand people safe.

It's literally impossible.

But that is the mentality that we've had, not just in Baltimore, but in this country, that it's just their responsibility.

They play a very important part in that responsibility that government has to protect and keep people safe, but it's not just theirs to bear alone.

So luckily for me, when I became the mayor, someone was smart enough to pass a law that says Baltimore has to have a comprehensive violence prevention plan presented to the mayor and city council.

That person would be me.

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