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Politically Expedient

21 hours ago ago from Sparky San Diego

What will be the real outcomes of the City Council's actions when they eliminated twelve canine officers; all Investigative Aides; all but eight of the Police Service Officers; twelve Police Code Compliance Officers and the Harbor Patrol Officers from the police department's budget? The mayor and others have told you these cuts will only cause "minimal" delays in response times to calls for service. Let's check back in with Earth and have a ...

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Overtime

18 hours ago ago from Government Fiasco

Cincinatti.com : The Cincinnati Police Department is spending nearly as much on overtime pay as the rest of city government at a time when more than 100 officers face layoffs due to the city's $51.5 million budget gap. From January through November, police earned $7 million in overtime, much of it for court appearances or to staff sporting events, concerts, festivals and community meetings, city records show. During that 11-month ...

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6 hours ago ago from Strange Justice

Chicago’s thick blue wall The Windy City's notoriously aggressive police department fights for less accountability Christopher Drew had every intention of getting arrested. The 59-year-old artist and executive director of the Uptown Multi-Cultural Art Center in Chicago set about his city earlier this month in a red poncho and a sign that read "Art for Sale: $1." It was a protest against Chicago’s law on unlicensed peddling, which Drew ...

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Lakewood police look beyond their grief

23 hours ago ago from Positive LEO

The task for Lakewood police sounds simple enough: Continue to protect the second-largest city in Pierce County as they have since the department was founded five years ago. But much attention since Nov. 29 has focused on grieving and remembering four officers slain at a Parkland coffee shop: Sgt. Mark Renninger, and officers Tina Griswold, Ronald Owens and Greg Richards. The public grief culminated a week ago with a memorial ...

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Training officers for emergency situations

23 hours ago ago from St. Augustine Local News - Historic City News

Historic City News has learned that city police and sheriff's deputies were involved in a cross-training exercise this morning with members of the public safety department of Flagler College.

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Los Angeles Police Accused of Waste

17 hours ago ago from The New York Times

LOS ANGELES The Los Angeles Police Department mismanaged millions of dollars by violating city and department policies in ordering supplies from noncompetitive vendors, failing to log receipts for purchases, and skipping required approvals for orders of supplies, according to a new internal department audit. The audit, which analyzed 102 transactions in the 2007-8 fiscal year, found that 84 percent of them were made without soliciting ...

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Federal Charges Are Filed in Killing of Immigrant

15 hours ago ago from The New York Times

The police chief of Shenandoah, Pa., and two of his officers were charged Tuesday with obstruction of justice in connection with their handling of the investigation of the beating death of a Mexican immigrant last year. In addition, two teenagers who were acquitted in state court this year on most charges in the killing were indicted on federal hate crime charges. The case became a cause c bre for national Hispanic organizations, ...

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10 hours ago ago from PopEater

Evangelist Oral Roberts dies in Calif. at age 91 TULSA, Okla. (AP) Oral Roberts, who helped pioneer TV evangelism in the 1950s and used the power of the new medium and his message of God's healing power to build a multimillion-dollar ministry and a university that bears his name, died Tuesday. He was 91. Roberts died of complications from pneumonia in Newport Beach, Calif., according to his spokesman, A. Larry Ross. The evangelist was ...

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