The city’s police union who was strongly against the ballot measure promised to fight its implementation.
Read More →Opponents of Proposition A — including Mayor Steve Adler and the unions that represent Austin firefighters and paramedics — warned of dire financial fallout for the city if the proposition passed, saying deep cuts in the city’s budget would lead to fewer firefighters, medics and librarians.
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Throughout the race, the 61-year-old Eric Adams made combating gun violence and improving public safety a main focus of his campaign, while also calling for cuts to the NYPD's budget and the shifting of some jobs to civilians that have been done by officers, which he says could save the city up to $500 million a year.
Read More →Details of the new department, including police staffing levels, if any, would have been determined by the mayor and largely anti-police City Council members.
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Officer Sherman Benys, a 19-year veteran of the department, is in the intensive care unit. He spent several hours in surgery and received as much as 18 units of blood.
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Video released by the Illinois State Police on Friday shows a man in a wheelchair lunge for a deputy's firearm, and then struggle with him on the ground.
Read More →Chief Michel Moore said officers will be served with disciplinary notices this week.
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San Jose police confirm they got the calls reporting the side show but say they were so tapped responding to other crimes they didn't have enough officers to respond safely.
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Sheriff Chad Chronister says the deputy was on patrol in a high crime area and spotted a car he thought might be stolen.
Read More →One man said he wanted to see police reform but still wanted to keep the Minneapolis Police Department intact. “You put the people in power that went to school for this stuff and you let them do their job,” he said.
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