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Law enforcement agencies have seized more than 19,000 ghost guns at crime scenes in 2021, a more than tenfold increase in five years, the Justice Department said
Editorial board believes sweltering conditions are contributing to a high quit rate among prison guards
All of the officers were found to have sincerely held religious beliefs that the arbiter found should have exempted them from the state’s vaccine mandate
Officials in DeKalb, Morgan, Clarke and Cherokee counties have reported tabulation errors stemming from the state’s new voting system
Despite keeping Northampton PD’s budget largely the same from FY 2020, Mayor David Narkewicz says he is committed to systemic change in the near future
It remains unclear what specific criteria would have to be met to resume the reopening process
Jackson County Sheriff Darryl Forté said he foresees reporting officers to the registry as being mandatory and said an appeals process would also be available
Officers would be replaced by trained, unarmed professionals to limit unnecessary confrontation on calls that don’t involve a threat to public safety
Several Minneapolis police officers issued a public letter condemning the killing of George Floyd, writing, “This is not who we are”
“You experience the pandemic, put the experience of the late 1960s on top of that, the grieving, the financial worries ... we’re looking at an epidemic of mental health crises”
During a virtual meeting of the Big City Mayors coalition, mayors from cities across California discussed homelessness solutions as well as police reform strategies going forward
The United States Conference of Mayors has launched a new initiative to produce, advance and enact meaningful reforms to address police violence and patterns of racial discrimination
Much of the HPD increase is due to a 3% raise for officers under a 2018 labor contract that expires in December