Liquor stores and other small businesses have attracted personal attention from the mayor as she tours neighborhoods as part of the Violence Reduction Initiative. In the spring, Pugh urged police to look for drug dealers inside West Baltimore liquor stores, saying she thought they had moved indoors with the tacit approval of business owners. At a meeting in April with The Baltimore Sun’s editorial board, Pugh again raised the issue of whether neighborhood convenience and liquor stores had ties to drug dealing.