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Her police commissioner, Anthony Batts, is black, too, as are most of the city's police.

Baltimore is a city where young black men are occasionally killed by the police-and where most days a young black man is murdered by another young black man.

In Baltimore the murder rate has fallen by a fifth since its peak in the 1990s, but the clearance rate for murders is still well under 50%, compared with a national average of 65%. The Baltimore police department has too few officers-3,000 or so-to investigate more than 200 murders a year while also doing everything else that modern police departments have to do.

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