It gets worse... City underreporting homocides.

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WBAL:

Last year, the Baltimore City Police Department reported 269 homicides, but the State Medical Examiner’s Office, which handles victims of homicides statewide, reported 275.

WBAL-TV 11 News I-Team lead investigative reporter Jayne Miller reported the medical examiner reported a raw homicide number at 288. But 13 of those are cases don’t count against the city’s total.

Those 13 cases include justifiable homicides and the deaths of inmates in detention. Also included are three cases in which people died in car crashes caused by suspects fleeing from a scene.
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When subtracted, the number of cases reported by the medical examiner drops to 275 — six more than the 269 murders reported by the city police.