Baltimore: When public information is no longer public

Police Commissioner Frederick Bealefeld has no comment on it. Mayor Sheila Dixon seems OK with it. Robert F. Cherry, president of the Baltimore chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police, seems absolutely giddy about it.

The “it” would be the recent announcement of the Baltimore Police Department’s public information office that, now, henceforth and forevermore, the names of police officers involved in police shootings or incidents that result in injuries to civilians will no longer be released to the public.