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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.
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.
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.
Read More →Mayor Jenny Durkan, who is not seeking a second term, issued an executive order Friday creating an immediate incentive program for the hiring of 911 dispatchers and police officers, citing a "civil emergency" as staffing shortages have worsened with the onset of the vaccine mandate.
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Videos showed two men identified by authorities as the defendants jumping up and down on the roof of the vehicle during protests on May 30, 2020, in downtown Pittsburgh.
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The judge left intact the requirement that Chicago Police Department officers report their vaccine status and the city’s current policy requiring multiple weekly tests for unvaccinated officers. But his order does stay the Dec. 31 deadline for all officers to be vaccinated.
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