Staffing struggles continue at many local police departments, and now some departments are facing a new problem: more and more officers quitting the force for higher-paying police jobs. 50 miles from Raleigh, the Burlington Police Department is having a moment. The 58,000-person city boasts one of the highest base salaries for police officers in the […]
Phoenix now faces two separate lawsuits over negotiations with the local police union, the Phoenix Law Enforcement Association, and its decision not to submit a contract proposal before starting negotiations. On Dec. 1, PLEA joined other city unions in refusing to submit a copy of all the proposed changes to their contract, something required under […]
Michael Tobin, director of the Office of Policing Complaints, testified during an oversight hearing last week that in nearly half the videos reviewed following a complaint, officers broke department rules. Tobin said they were not major offenses, in most cases. “The majority of it is … an officer not telling the community member that, ‘Hey, […]
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Police Department’s rank-and-file union is proposing that someone other than police respond to more than two dozen types of 911 calls in a bid to transfer officers’ workload to more serious crimes. The move is part of a national trend aimed at limiting situations where armed police officers […]
Portland survived Winter Apocalypse 2023! This month’s cases: Firefighter Entitled To Unemployment Benefits After Firing For Use Of Medical Marijuana, City of Waterbury, 216 Conn.App. 717 (2022). No Privacy Interest In On-Line Videos, Mason v. City of Waco, 2023 WL 1926984 (W.D. Tex. 2023).Behind The Blue Curtain Podcast Officer’s Facebook Lawsuit Survives Motion To Dismiss, […]
