A homegrown Baltimore Police commissioner: Bringing baggage from BPD’s history or ‘best of both worlds’?

Mayor Brandon Scott heralded his pick for police commissioner as a fellow “son of Baltimore,” a leader grown from within the department, someone who climbed his way up the ranks since his start in 1998. Richard Worley, the mayor said, has Old Bay in his blood: “That means a lot to me.” But given the Baltimore Police Department’s laundry list of scandals and unconstitutional practices, a decades long track record in its ranks potentially carries some baggage.