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Comptroller Susana Mendoza accused the city of setting impossible standards for cops to receive benefits
The Atlanta Police Foundation, with help from the Atlanta Apartment Association, will oversee the $500,000 in American Rescue Plan Act funds
The program is designed to help attract and retain first responders and to help them afford homes near their workplaces
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Former HUD Secretary and former San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro lauded as immigration leader in first debate of half the Election 2020 Democratic candidates.
The Virginia Beach City Council is considering various proposals for a third party mass shooting investigation that will provide more information about the May 31st incident at a municipal building to the victims’ families and city leaders.
In addition to a ban on presenting cases, search warrants will not be approved for investigations involving officers on a list of nearly 60 St. Louis police officers.
Mayor Jim Strickland praised the actions of Memphis Police and Shelby County Sheriff’s Office, which were uninvolved when a Tennessee man was fatally shot by U.S. Marshals, calling them remarkable for what they endured in the post-shooting riot. Six officers were treated at the hospital following the riot.
Police arrived on scene within two minutes, with officers from four different commands responding, to the Virginia Beach Municipal Shooting. The municipal workplace incident left 12 dead, and others in critical condition.
Baltimore was hit with a cyber attack and is reverting to manual operations for many affected city services.
Homelessness is still surging throughout the San Francisco Bay region. In the city, there are about 5,200 unsheltered homeless -- a two-year, 20 percent increase driven largely by people who living in cars.
New York Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that he is running for U.S. President in Election 2020.
Midwestern Mayor Pete Buttigieg of South Bend, Indiana, announced his official candidacy for President from his city’s partially recalibrated Studebaker factory mixed-use technology center.
The Parkland shooting victims lawsuit names several public agency and other defendants, accusing them of negligence.