brandon soderberg
@bsoderberg.bsky.social
I live in Baltimore and I report on cops, guns, and drugs / Cowriter, "I Got a Monster" / Soderberg v. Carrion / bsoderberg.com
Happy 40th anniversary to Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. Great party, great FREE legal services, an honor to be part of its history with Soderberg v Carrion. Consider donating mdvla.org/donate/
October 17, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Happy 40th anniversary to Maryland Volunteer Lawyers For The Arts. Great party, great FREE legal services, an honor to be part of its history with Soderberg v Carrion. Consider donating mdvla.org/donate/
October 16, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Good old fashioned police work whose central strategy GVRS overwhelmingly arrests people for nonviolent crimes: www.baltimorebrew.com/2024/07/22/t...
Good old fashioned police work that has been solving the same number of murders for 20+ years: baltimorebrew.com/2025/06/11/b...
come on!!!!!
Good old fashioned police work that has been solving the same number of murders for 20+ years: baltimorebrew.com/2025/06/11/b...
come on!!!!!
September 17, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Good old fashioned police work whose central strategy GVRS overwhelmingly arrests people for nonviolent crimes: www.baltimorebrew.com/2024/07/22/t...
Good old fashioned police work that has been solving the same number of murders for 20+ years: baltimorebrew.com/2025/06/11/b...
come on!!!!!
Good old fashioned police work that has been solving the same number of murders for 20+ years: baltimorebrew.com/2025/06/11/b...
come on!!!!!
picked it up at Wonder Book !
August 31, 2025 at 9:06 PM
picked it up at Wonder Book !
Made this video for my friends in MOWDER OYAL who have a new record out, "Prefigurative Musics." The single is "Imaginary." Happy Bandcamp Friday
mowderoyal.bandcamp.com
mowderoyal.bandcamp.com
August 1, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Made this video for my friends in MOWDER OYAL who have a new record out, "Prefigurative Musics." The single is "Imaginary." Happy Bandcamp Friday
mowderoyal.bandcamp.com
mowderoyal.bandcamp.com
Fred Halsted's "Sextool" (1975) and "Terminator 2" (1991)
July 22, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Fred Halsted's "Sextool" (1975) and "Terminator 2" (1991)
Today's mass overdose in Baltimore also reminds me of what Ricky Morris (RIP Ricky) told me a couple years ago when he described a bad batch from the early 90s:
![Back in the early ‘90s, Morris himself overdosed. There was a bad batch going around, one that is now infamous among veterans of Baltimore City’s drug scene. There were horse tranquilizers in it.
“Twenty-one people died and I got hit too, but I was lucky enough to survive because I was around some family members when I used,” Morris said. “And I just snorted back then, you didn’t even hear of people OD-ing from snorting.”
A few years later, Morris’s brother and cousin both overdosed. Only one of them survived.
“Both of them got their heroin together and both of them got a bad batch but my cousin, he went back home to his bathroom and when he OD-ed, he fell and his wife heard him and was able to get him help,” Morris said. “But my brother, he was sneaking because he was ashamed. So he goes up in an [abandoned building] and uses, and there was no one to help him. He ended up OD-ing and dying. When they found him he was cold.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k3m3afcct2ofiplprrlfwdqp/bafkreig6llmeweq6wqa4symsjetn3r5lqpdpetmeslfidw2zm3265gb7kq@jpeg)
July 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
Today's mass overdose in Baltimore also reminds me of what Ricky Morris (RIP Ricky) told me a couple years ago when he described a bad batch from the early 90s:
plus Rafi Pitts' "The Hunter" which doesn't seem to be in the database
June 24, 2025 at 1:43 AM
plus Rafi Pitts' "The Hunter" which doesn't seem to be in the database
Mowder Oyal album release show
June 22, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Mowder Oyal album release show
From 2019:
Police are the bad guys with guns the police are always talking about.
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...
Police are the bad guys with guns the police are always talking about.
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...
June 21, 2025 at 10:20 PM
From 2019:
Police are the bad guys with guns the police are always talking about.
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...
Police are the bad guys with guns the police are always talking about.
www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/o...
I think the best way to understand the homicide drop in Baltimore is to understand it as part of a nationwide decline. I think this @jeffasher.bsky.social piece does a great job of looking at murder reductions nationally: jasher.substack.com/p/why-i-thin...
June 16, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I think the best way to understand the homicide drop in Baltimore is to understand it as part of a nationwide decline. I think this @jeffasher.bsky.social piece does a great job of looking at murder reductions nationally: jasher.substack.com/p/why-i-thin...
Latest for Baltimore Brew & The Garrison Project: The clearance rate is up, homicides are down. Baltimore Police say that less murders means they now have the time to solve more of them. But Baltimore Police are making the same number of arrests for murder now as they were in 2005.
June 11, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Latest for Baltimore Brew & The Garrison Project: The clearance rate is up, homicides are down. Baltimore Police say that less murders means they now have the time to solve more of them. But Baltimore Police are making the same number of arrests for murder now as they were in 2005.
March 1, 2025 at 11:56 PM
On this week's Board of Estimates agenda: $720k settlement to Dennis Freeman, a man who was hit on his motorcycle by Baltimore City police officer Alexia Davis in 2023. Man lost his leg in the crash. Officer Davis plead guilty last year.
agenda: comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/sites/defaul...
agenda: comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/sites/defaul...
January 29, 2025 at 8:29 PM
On this week's Board of Estimates agenda: $720k settlement to Dennis Freeman, a man who was hit on his motorcycle by Baltimore City police officer Alexia Davis in 2023. Man lost his leg in the crash. Officer Davis plead guilty last year.
agenda: comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/sites/defaul...
agenda: comptroller.baltimorecity.gov/sites/defaul...
January 4, 2025 at 11:43 PM