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Training
Boston Considering 3-year Residency Requirement for Police and Fire Applicants
City leader is pushing for 3-year residency requirement for Boston police and fire applicants.
April 30, 2014
Point of Law
Missouri Bill Banning Police Residency Requirements Expanded to Whole State
A bill meant to lift police residency requirements for officers in the city of St. Louis was expanded by lawmakers Tuesday night to include all Missouri municipalities, despite opposition from Kansas City.
January 22, 2020
Patrol
Appeals Court Rules Residency In Marijuana Legal State Not Justification for Police Search
By a 2-1 vote, the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver said two Kansas Highway Patrol officers violated the constitutional rights of Colorado motorist Peter Vasquez in December 2011 by pulling him over and searching his car after he had been driving alone at night on Interstate 70.
August 25, 2016
Training
Pittsburgh Officers Challenge Residency Requirement
An arbitration panel will determine the future of police residency in Pittsburgh, following a Monday hearing where two councilman argued that officers must live within city limits.
September 23, 2013
Command
Missouri Legislation Would End Residency Requirements for Officers
St. Louis Police Chief John Hayden says his department is currently down 145 officers and that the residency requirement is the greatest challenge his department has with recruitment and retention.
September 3, 2020
Patrol
Philly Officers Fled City After Residency Requirement was Eliminated
More than 1,000 Philadelphia police officers have abandoned city living since the department’s residency rules were softened five years ago — many lured to the suburbs by the prospect of better schools, cleaner streets, and safer neighborhoods.
October 6, 2017
Patrol
Ill. Cop Fired for Living Outside City Limits for 15 Years
The city of Chicago has fired Marvin Ditkowsky, an 87-year-old Department of Aviation police officer at O'Hare Airport, for violating the city's residency ordinance—for the past 15 years.
January 9, 2012
Patrol
N.J. Cop Indicted for Immigrant Shakedown
A New Jersey police officer has been accused of making unwarranted stops of Latino men, questioning their residency status, and threatening to report them to immigration officials unless they gave him money.
November 20, 2011
Careers
How to Handle Residency Requirements
If you're applying to an agency, read the fine print. I mean the really fine print. There are some police agencies that require you to prove you've established residency for up to two years prior to submitting an application. Others require you to move into the jurisdiction within a year of your hire date.
July 4, 2011
Training
TN State Legislature Addressing Residency Requirement For Memphis Officers
“If you truly are concerned in the rise of violent crime and want to increase the number of police officers we have, we have to extend beyond the county to be able to hire,” Mayor Jim Strickland said in a hearing at the state capital earlier this week.
February 11, 2022
Patrol
St. Louis Chief Hopes End of Residency Requirement Boosts Recruiting
Chief John Hayden said Tuesday he hopes that the recent removal of the residency requirement for his department will help generate a net increase of about 100 officers over the next year.
September 25, 2020
Weapons
A Trauma Surgeon Talks About Wound Ballistics and Stopping Power
"I got involved in wound ballistics and what it really took to stop a threat during residency in Philadelphia because I had a friend on the police force who lost his job for use of excessive force by shooting somebody, I think it was, 18 times, and I always thought, maybe he needed to shoot that person 18 times to stop the threat."
December 28, 2017
Training
Police Applicant Involved In N.J. Cop's Fatal Crash
The driver of the vehicle that slammed into Millville (N.J.) Police Officer Christopher Reeves' cruiser and killing the officer had applied to the department to become an officer.
July 9, 2012
Patrol
Arbiter Allows Pittsburgh Police to Reside Outside City Limits
For the first time in more than a century, Pittsburgh police officers will not have to live in the city where they work, according to a draft arbitration award announced Thursday.
March 13, 2014
Patrol
New Law to Ban Chokehold Use by Police in Missouri
Missouri police officers would be prohibited from using chokeholds to subdue crime suspects under a sweeping package of law enforcement reforms that were expected to be signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday.
July 14, 2021
Patrol
Philadelphia Waives Residency Requirement for New Officers
In June 2020, city council passed legislation that mandated Philadelphia only hire people – including aspiring police officers – who have lived in the city for at least one year prior to the job appointment.
April 8, 2022
Patrol
Court Rules Pittsburgh Officers Can't be Required to Live in City
In an 18-page opinion, the Pennsylvania state Supreme Court on Monday ruled 6-0 in favor of the Fraternal Order of Police Fort Pitt Lodge No. 1, which won an arbitration award in 2014 allowing its approximately 870 officers to live within 25 air-miles of the City-County Building Downtown. Justice Debra Todd did not participate in the decision.
May 23, 2017
Patrol
California Becomes 'Sanctuary State' with New Legislation
Under threat of possible retaliation by the Trump administration, Gov. Jerry Brown signed landmark "sanctuary state" legislation Thursday, vastly limiting who state and local law enforcement agencies can hold, question, and transfer at the request of federal immigration authorities.
October 5, 2017
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