Baltimore is changing the way it counts homicides to go along with Federal Bureau of Investigation rules, which now count homicides for the year the injury was caused and not the date of the death.

This new rule applies to cases where people were shot and or stabbed one year but died in another. For example, if an individual was shot in 2022 and subsequently dies in 2025, and that death is ruled a homicide resulting from the 2022 incident, the case will be added to the 2022 homicide count, not the 2025 count.

“The integrity of our data is critical to maintaining public trust and we want our community to have confidence that the information we share is both transparent and reliable,” Baltimore police Commissioner Richard Worley said in a news release. “We appreciate our partners at the Ma

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