In his first major move as acting Baltimore police commissioner, Frederick Bealefeld forced out the department?s deputy of administration and promoted three others to high-ranking positions.

“We?re plus-28 homicides. We?re plus-102 nonfatal shootings,” Bealefeld said at a Monday news conference, referring to this year?s statistics thus far compared with the same period last year. “Despite the fact that violent crime is down as a whole in this city, we need to really make some inroads in the violence in this city. I need to assemble the very best team I can to get this job done.”