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16 days ago by TwoGroove

Ok, over at Examiner I had to play nice. Here, I say what I want. The summary for the tl;dr types: Austin created a Live Music Task Force to provide recommendations to maintain and improve our reputation as the Live Music Capitol of the World. A key recommendation was to create a city office specifi ...

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21 days ago by admin

Civil liberties groups are demanding a more thorough investigation after it emerged a Queensland man who died during an arrest last week may have been tasered by police more than 20 times. Either the fools don’t know how to use the gun or they intended to…aww, hell. They’d never do that, right? And ...

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27 days ago by Magdalene Perez

After the FBI’s annual report showed violent crime in Stamford rose by 13 percent last year, mayor Dannel Malloy chose to look at the positive side. A few days after the Advocate article, Malloy issued a press release titled, “Stamford 9th Safest City in America.” The Stamford Police department base ...

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35 days ago by hoboken411

6/4/2009: Endorsements and Announcements Or you could call this thread “Cammarano Endorsements Roll In, Part II….” Three brand new endorsements for Peter Cammarano, along with an update regarding his position on Police Layoffs. We’ll start off with this meeting taking place this morning at 11am… Sen ...

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73 days ago by abelharding

One of the more interesting local quirks I have noticed during my years in Jacksonville is the voting public and our local elected officials’ view of the inherent evilness of unions, unless they happen to be the local police or firefighters union. Any other union, however, is doing nothing but tryin ...

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78 days ago by Pay Cuts

of employee concessions that are already proving unappetizing to city unions. While some unions are willing to consider salary cuts, the mayor's toughest opposition may come from the police union, which said Tuesday it would fight any reductions in View the full article

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100 days ago by The Commish

Telling the Chicago police union to "get real," Mayor Daley argued that the city has been very good to its employees recently, being one of the only cities in the country to be building new police sta read more

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117 days ago by Robby LeBlanc

Facing a flagging economy and dwindling tax revenues, the union representing Las Vegas’ rank-and-file police officers agreed to forgo cost-of-living raises under a tentative deal for a new contract reached late Thursday.

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119 days ago by goldiron

Missouri Cops Oppose Red Light Cameras Police in St. Louis, Missouri oppose red light camera program that legal advisors to camera firm operates illegally. The St. Louis, Missouri Police Officers’ Association on Monday spoke out against the use of red light cameras as a revenue raising tool. The pol ...

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153 days ago by Jason

So, what to make of the announcement this week that a handful of Police Department managers were getting demoted and taking a pay cut? It’s unusual, it’s not good, and if I were a manager in another city department, I wouldn’t be taking too many calls from 345-9550. First, the unusual. I’m not sure ...

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