CHARLOTTE, NC — After months of negotiation, the Charlotte City Council agreed to give Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Chief Kerr Putney nearly $6 million for new officers in summer 2016. With that money, he could hire 125 more officers over the next two years. It was the first staffing increase for CMPD in nearly a decade. But none of those […]
Illinois lawmakers heard from municipal officials Thursday on the idea of consolidating their police and fire pensions and also giving them “first in line” privileges for local spending. Illinois currently has more than 650 local police and fire pension funds. Many of them are poorly equipped to pay their coming retiree costs. The Illinois Municipal […]
BALDWIN PARK, CA — A former chief of the Baldwin Park Police Department won a $7 million settlement Tuesday for a gender discrimination lawsuit she filed against the city nearly five years earlier. The suit alleges Lili Hadsell, chief of police from 2008 to 2013, was subjected to prejudicial treatment that ultimately led to her […]
