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#police-accountability

"We are elated with this development," said Travis Lock, an attorney for Jaynes.

The commander, Nicole Mehringer, argued she was held to a different standard than her male LAPD colleagues, who she claimed were allowed to keep their jobs under similar circumstances, sometimes with department officials going to extreme lengths to cover up their wrongdoing. The jury ultimately agreed with her.

Mikel Beltran, 37, of Andover, was pulled over on Rockingham Road in Londonderry, N.H. after he was spotted flashing blue lights from his SUV, CBS News reported. The officers who stopped him saw that he was wearing a Lawrence Police Department jacket and had a corresponding badge. Beltran identified himself as a Lawrence police officer to the Londonderry officers who pulled him over.

The question we're asking is not, Will police have less time to do whatever other important work they do?' But whether on a handful of occasions a year, officers are willing to write two paragraphs about the use of a chemical weapon, said Nathan Mizell, a former Police Accountability Board member.

When we got to Monday evening, there was still no commentary from either of those clubs in respect of the violence that was witnessed. Nobody came out to condemn that violence. We can put more and more resources into football, but that does not solve the underlying issue that people will be able to attend those events without fearing for their safety.

The immediate response tends to be an overreaction. There are much deeper structural inequities in the Tenderloin that continue to put neighborhood residents collectively at risk. Police officers appeared to crack down on the block the day after, with three people reporting police arrived around 7 a.m. to urge people gathered there to move along.

The incident happened on Friday around 3:30 a.m. following a traffic stop in the area of Dunlop Street W. and Frances Street. The man, who was wanted on an arrest warrant, fled the car and was chased by police on foot. Police found him in the backyard of a residence on Frances Street. A stun gun was deployed during the interaction between the man and the officers.

I've said that what I saw was a snowball fight, it should be treated accordingly. It was one that got out of hand, but that's what it was. He again reiterated that NYPD officers, and all city workers, deserve to be treated with respect.

Aguilar's dismissal came after months of escalating tension between his office and the Police Accountability Board on the one side, and the City Council, Berkeley Police Department leadership and other city administrative agencies on the other. Most recently, in December, Aguilar sued BPD Chief Jen Louis in an attempt to get records related to a complaint against the police. This week, a judge denied Aguilar's petition, saying Aguilar had not had the authority to file it in the first place.

The plaque from Heritage Toronto will "salute" the community's courage, Mayor Olivia Chow told a news conference at The 519, a city agency located in Toronto's gay village. "The bathhouse raids were a horrid mistake and a serious stain on Toronto's reputation, a scar a community feels to this day, 45 years later," Chow said. "It was wrong. It was shameful. And we remember."

The staff writers Emily Witt and Ruby Cramer discuss the situation in Minneapolis, a city effectively under siege by militaristic federal agents. "This is a city where there's a police force of about six hundred officers [compared] to three thousand federal agents," Witt points out. Cramer shares her interview with Mayor Jacob Frey, who talks about how Minneapolis was just beginning to recover from the trauma of George Floyd's murder and its aftermath,

Mayor Mamdani swept into Gracie Mansion on the promise of ending widespread corruption around policing and street safety. He can do both by laser-focusing his efforts on eliminating the prevalent abuse and forgery of parking placards. Mamdani has a rare chance to permanently halt this dangerous and criminal practice, and, in doing so, radically alter the balance of power in New York City. For the past decade, under the handle @placardabuse, we've documented how a large contingent of car drivers misuse their parking privileges -

There is an "epidemic of everyday crime", the Home Secretary says, such as shoplifting and phone theft. It reminds Shabana Mahmood of the years when she worked on the till in her parents' corner shop, with a cricket bat under the counter ready to deter shoplifters who stole, time and again. While overall crime has been going down in recent years those types of offences have been going up, matched by rising public anxiety.

Oakland leaders have declined for the second time to reappoint two incumbents to the Police Commission, the civilian body overseeing the Oakland Police Department. At the City Council meeting Tuesday night, all but two council members - Carroll Fife and Noel Gallo - voted to reject the nominees submitted by the Police Commission Selection Panel in December: Ricardo Garcia-Acosta, chair of the commission, and Omar Farmer, an alternate commissioner. The commissioners' terms expired in October, but both have continued to serve in a holdover capacity.

It was nearly a decade ago that Oakland voters overwhelmingly agreed in the ballot boxes that the city needed citizen oversight of the police department. Many hoped at the time that the newly established watchdog body would eventually take the reins from federal officials who have maintained control of the Oakland Police Department for now over two decades. But the commission comprised of seven volunteer members still seems to be struggling to gain footing within Oakland's complex bureaucratic tangles.