Acknowledging concerns, Mayor Scott promises improvements in DPW’s culture of bullying

Scott says people caught mistreating their fellow employees will be ‘held accountable’ Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott knows something’s rotten with the Department of Public Works, and it’s not the trash smell coming from the garbage trucks. On Wednesday, five days after a sanitation worker died of heatstroke and a day after labor unions and city councilmen held a news conference to demand changes to DPW’s “toxic culture,” Scott acknowledged something has to change with the beleaguered agency.