BALTIMORE -- During an internship with the Baltimore Police Department this summer, Yasmine Bryant met the mother of a city homicide victim struggling with acute grief and growing frustration: Despite repeated attempts to contact detectives about their open investigation, she heard nothing from law enforcement in more than five months.
“Her only child was killed … and she had no updates on the case of her baby boy,” said Bryant, a junior at Morgan State University. “This is a problem.”
At the completion of her 10-week internship, Bryant proposed a solution: asking victims of Baltimore gun violence how their police department could better serve them. During a capstone presentation Friday morning on Morgan State campus, she recommended conducting a survey to help the department strengthen its victim services unit.
