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My colleague, Mary Rose Madden, asked the commissioner if city residents can expect a house cleaning of Baltimore Police Department because of the findings.

What Davis said was:

“I’ve fired six police officers in 2016 alone.  That’s a small number.  But those who have left this agency deserve to leave this agency.  So I’ll continue to hold police officers accountable.  And I do that as much to remove them from our communities as to ensure that the good police officers know that their leadership is paying attention to good policing.”

A year does not begin in August; the report was released publicly Wednesday. Commissioner Davis received the full report less than a day before its public release.

In other words, between January 1 and August 10 six officers were released from employment at the Baltimore Police Department; nothing to do with the report.

It should also be noted here that the civil rights investigation into BPD actually evolved from a collaborative review after six officers were charged in May 2015.