This summer, as denunciations of racist police violence and calls to defund law enforcement intensified across the country, Baltimore residents have been getting a real-time insight into their own troubled police department.

A Twitter account called Scan the Police began live-tweeting transmissions heard on the city’s police scanner in June.

“Cop asking for Animal Control at the Eastern District . . . Caller says a woman is sleeping in her business hallway. Cop responds, ’10-4, I’ll go wake her up and tell her to get out’. . . Officer with a dead battery needs a jump.”

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