Mayor’s plan to expand anti-gun-violence strategy gets boost from Board of Estimates

Baltimore’s spending board on Wednesday approved a contract between the city’s public safety office and Roca Maryland, shoring up a key partnership that will help the city expand a promising policing anti-gun-violence strategy. The contract approval by the Board of Estimates clears a significant hurdle for the Mayor’s Office of Neighborhood Safety and Engagement, which outlined its plans for a citywide expansion of the flagship Group Violence Reduction Strategy at a year-end press conference in December.