Overview
Since the implementation of the City’s first-ever, five-year Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan (CVPP) in 2021, Baltimore has seen historic reductions in violent crime. Homicides have declined more than 60 percent since 2022, and in 2025, Baltimore recorded 133 homicides — the lowest total since 1978 and the first time the city had fewer than 200 in a single year in nearly 50 years. Nonfatal shootings also declined 24.5 percent in 2025, surpassing national averages. This plan leverages a coordinated, all-hands-on-deck approach to public safety that spans prevention, intervention, enforcement, reentry, and rehabilitation.
Mayor Brandon M. Scott and MONSE are engaging the public in the process to develop the City's second Comprehensive Violence Prevention Plan (CVPP), which will be a new five-year roadmap to build on the historic progress of the last five years and deepen the City's commitment to a holistic, community- and trauma-centered public safety approach. This plan will guide the city’s violence prevention approach from 2026 - 2031 (Fiscal Year '27-Fiscal Year '31).
Your feedback is needed to inform this plan, which will be finalized and officially released by the early Fall of 2026. Please attend an upcoming listening sessions and share your feedback on the plan through the public survey. You may also share feedback directly via email. Additional session dates and locations will be announced in the coming weeks.
The second CVPP organizes Baltimore’s next five years of public safety work around six pillars:
- Strengthen Evidence-Based Violence Intervention Strategies
- Youth Justice and Violence Reduction
- Invest in All Baltimoreans
- Build Safe and Healthy Neighborhoods
- Sustaining and Expanding Baltimore’s Public Safety Toolkit
- Community Engagement and Collaboration