Baltimore Police Tailed Their Own Officer in Sting Revealing Fabricated Traffic Stops

Baltimore police covertly surveilled Officer Dequwan Houchins across four shifts in April–May, finding he logged eight phantom traffic stops alongside nine real ones. He filed no body-camera footage — required by department policy — for any stop. A December audit first flagged the false entries in the CAD reporting system. Houchins faces nine counts; he denies the allegations.