After 74 Year Drought, Kansas City Officers Allowed To Engage In Political Activity
KANSAS CITY, MO – It’s been a long time coming, 74 years to be exact, but members of the Kansas City Police Department can voice their political views once again. Officers have been banned from that First Amendment right since the 1930s. At that time, Kansas City Mayor Tom Pendergast ruled the city as a […]
D.C. Firefighter Files Police Complaint Claiming Assault By Fire Chief
WASHINGTON, DC – A week after a criminal probe into two ambulance fires was launched, D.C. police began a second investigation involving the troubled fire department: whether the fire chief assaulted a firefighter at one of the blazes. Firefighter Sean Christopher Griffith, 33, filed a complaint Tuesday with D.C. police, seven days after the alleged […]
NYPD Union Warns Members To Avoid Legal Risks Of Stop-And-Frisk
NEW YORK, NY – NYPD beat cops posted a police-union warning in every precinct yesterday instructing officers not to go above and beyond the call of duty — or risk losing their jobs because of the new stop-and-frisk laws, The Post has learned. “All officers should take action if he or she sees a crime […]
Firefighter Deaths Factor Into Arizona Mayoral Race
PRESCOTT, AZ – Mayor Marlin Kuykendall took a lead role in helping Prescott mourn the loss of 19 firefighters this summer, sharing the stage with the governor and Vice President Joe Biden at a nationally televised memorial. He set aside campaigning in the midst of a re-election bid to focus almost entirely on the fallen […]