UPDATE: On July 8th, Police Commissioner Anthony Batts was fired by Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake amid the continued violence and unrest in Baltimore.
Police stations in Baltimore will now be open 24/7, according to the Baltimore Sun.
The decision is said to be in response to an op-ed piece that appeared in the newspaper on July 6 detailing the mugging and subsequent lack of police assistance endured by citizen Connor Meek. According to Meek, after initially dialing 911, the dispatcher couldn’t pinpoint his location and instructed him to go to the police station, which, he says, is when things only got worse:
