A Baltimore Police Department technician fires a 38 caliber pistol into a bullet recovery tank to match the bullets collected from a crime scene. The bullet will be entered into a national database called the "Integrated Ballistics Identification System."

A firearms technician with the Baltimore Police Department inspects a 410 shotgun pistol in the department's storeroom. Baltimore Police Department's "Bad Guys With Guns" program aims to take guns off the streets and away from the city's most violent people. Police statistics show homicides in Baltimore are down 25% for 2010 and shootings have been reduced 31% over two years.

Baltimore police officials have been able to lower violent crime rates over the past three years.The city's "Bad Guys With Guns" program aims to take guns off the streets and away from the city's most violent people.

A Baltimore Police officer watches over a man under arrest for drug dealing. While being chased by police, he was seen throwing a 9mm pistol into an empty lot which was later recovered.

Baltimore Police officers question a man under arrest for drug dealing. While being chased by police, he threw a 9mm pistol which was later recovered.

Baltimore Police display a 9mm Beretta handgun recovered from a man arrested for drug dealing. As the drug dealer was being pursued, he was spotted throwing the gun into an empty lot where it was found.

Baltimore Police officers were called to an apartment building to control a domestic dispute between neighbors.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld lll watches as a detective attempts to control a belligerent juvenile. The police believe the teenager may have thrown a packet of drugs in a variety store. The Commissioner regularly goes on patrol visiting officers in the field to promote the anti-gun policy of taking hand guns off the streets.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld lll speaks with the mother of a juvenile who became belligerent with police in a variety store. The boy was suspected of carrying drugs and brought downtown to police headquarters where he was given a warning.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld lll speaks with two detectives holding a teenager for questioning. The Commissioner is the city's main promoter of a policy to remove hand guns from the streets and decrease violent crime. Police statistics show homicides in Baltimore are down 25% for 2010 and shootings have been reduced 31% over two years.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld's lll police hat sits on a car seat of his vehicle. Under Bealefeld's tenure police have been able to lower violent crime rates since 2007. Removing handguns from violent people has been a primary reason.

Baltimore Police Commissioner Fred Bealefeld lll watches a corner liquor shop from a police car.

A Baltimore Police officer describes for Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake how the closed circuit television screens monitor high crime locations at the CitiWatch Center in downtown Baltimore.

Baltimore Police officers patrol the high crime western neighborhoods.

Baltimore Police officers from the Violent Crime Impact Section, VCIS, arrest a drug buyer during an operation in the western area of the city.

Baltimore Police officers investigate an apparent suicide by an unidentified man lying on the back steps of a church. The hand gun used in the apparent suicide lies underneath the victim.