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Baltimore’s crime plan, tracking hate crimes across the US, officers involved in fatal shootings get jail time, fentanyl and the opioid epidemic, and more... POLICE CONDUCT Officer who fatally shot Walter Scott, Jr sentenced to 20 years in prison (DOJ) See also: OKC police officer charged with second-degree murder after DA finds deadly shooting unjustified (NewsOK.com) Police officer adopts homeless mother’s opioid-addicted newborn (Fox61.com) Some Police Departments Are Adding Staff for the First Time in Years (Governing.com) Crime-Reporting Failures Persist Across All The Pentagon's Armed Services (NPR) CRIME RATE Baltimore Pugh says her preventive “good government” approach to crime reduction is working (BaltimoreBrew.com) See also: Governor Hogan announces plan to fight violent crime in Baltimore (Baltimore Sun) and also: Bloomberg donates $5 million to Baltimore for police technology Community and the Crime Decline: The Causal Effect of Local