When springtime trends showed that 2011 homicides in Maryland would rise by 7 percent, the governor's office set in motion an intensified effort to arrest violent offenders wanted on warrants in areas where most of the state's violent crime occurs: Baltimore City and Prince George's and Baltimore counties.
Local and state agencies worked in three phases from the summer through year's end, with more officers and longer hours paid for with $500,000 in federal grants. When it was over, 2,200 people had been arrested.
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