An outage in the city’s computer-aided emergency dispatch system snarled some communications between Baltimore police and fire officials last week, briefly causing disarray as officers repeatedly ...

The aging system that logs and tracks Baltimore’s public safety calls experienced about a dozen “failures” throughout 2024 and 2025, according to City Council President Zeke Cohen. Cohen called that ...

Baltimore's emergency dispatch system failed due to the heat during a mental health response that ended with a man dying while in police custody, Mayor Brandon Scott confirmed. The failure of the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Computer-Aided Dispatch system, known as CAD, has failed several times in past years. WJZ-TV's Stephanie Douglas reports.