Sentences with phrase «number of city police»

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A review by The Trace of Atlanta Police Department data found that the city recorded at least 850 guns stolen from cars in 2015, almost double the number reported in 2009.

Every city recruits its police force differently based on budgets, existing crime rates, density, and a number of other complex socioeconomic factors (like the area's racial makeup).

Bob Kroll, president of the city's police union, said the department needs to increase its numbers by about 20 percent.

Taser has also added the business of a number of other big city police departments — including Pittsburgh and San Francisco — over the past year.

Professor DiIulio again: «It is reasonable to suppose that by doubling or tripling the number of officers on regular duty in and around drug - infested, crime - torn neighborhoods, and by deploying them in accordance with the precepts of community policing, the streets and sidewalks of even the most blighted inner city could be made safe enough for children to play and adults to stroll.»

During the past year Louisville's news has been dominated by several seemingly disparate issues — the troubled relationship between the police department and the African - American community; efforts to build more mixed - income housing in the city; adoption of a regional plan intended to moderate suburban sprawl; disagreement about the number and location of proposed new Ohio River bridges linking Louisville and southern Indiana; a campaign to attract high - tech business to the downtown area; and a lively election campaign around the issue of a city - county merger.

Makes all New York City police officers, firefighters, housing police, transit police, correction officers, and all surviving spouses eligible for variable supplements fund, regardless of number of years of service.

He's often credited with having kicked off the historic reversal of New York's decades - long rise in crime — embracing the «broken windows» theory of policing, introducing the crime - monitoring tool CompStat and overseeing a big boost in the number of city cops.

Mayor Bill de Blasio and NYPD Commissioner James O'Neill are scheduled to discuss the year - end crime data at a news conference Thursday, an event that will likely be highlighted by a number of superlatives: the lowest number of major felonies in the modern era of police record keeping, as well as 790 shootings, the fewest in recorded city history.

Rockland County, in particular, is home to a number of current and former police officers who have worked here, in New York City, and in other neighboring communities.

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Ms. Colvin, set to begin work in two weeks, has received a number of recognitions for her reporting, including for a recent in - depth look at the city police department's controversial stop - and - frisk tactic.

The proposed merger calls for the consolidation of government between the city and county, as well as the consolidation of a number of offices, such as the Syracuse Police Department and the Onondaga County Sheriff's Office.

To improve the city's safety and protect against terror threats, all the candidates called for either an influx of new police officers to bolster the force or at the very least an end to the cuts that have slashed the number of officers patrolling the city over the past 12 years.

Alarmed over the number of reported rapes in the city, elected officials are calling on police to beef up security.

There are a number of plans in the works between City of Buffalo police and their partners in law enforcement to enhance security at one of the city's most popular destinations — CanalsCity of Buffalo police and their partners in law enforcement to enhance security at one of the city's most popular destinations — Canalscity's most popular destinations — Canalside.

The Patrolmen's Benevolent Association (PBA), which represents 24,000 New York City police officers and 25,000 retirees, has taken issue with a number of high - profile pieces of legislation pushed through the city counCity police officers and 25,000 retirees, has taken issue with a number of high - profile pieces of legislation pushed through the city councity council.

De Blasio has proposed increasing the number of NYC police officers on the streets — while keeping the police department's overall head count steady — as part of negotiations with the City Council over the budget.

Most police live in the suburbs On the high number of Syracuse police officers who don't live in the city:

Mega Contracting, incidentally, has been awarded contracts for the construction and rehabbing of a number of municipal projects, including NYCHA houses, MTA station upgrades, and work on schools, police precincts and city hospitals.

The number of stop - and - frisk reports filed by New York City police fell 51 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same period last year.

More police officers have been sent into the New York City subway to address the large number of homeless people sleeping on trains during cold winter nights, the police said.

Bratton is pushing back on a number of NYC Council measures aimed to change police practices across the city.

She said she would also like to boost the number of police officers patrolling city streets to combat crime and also cut down on overtime costs.

In a meeting with Council members last Thursday, the speaker told her colleagues that the long - stalled act — which would require the city's police officers to identify themselves when stopping an individual and to let that person know that they have the right to refuse a search if the officer does not have probable cause — would not go before the Council but rather would be handled internally by the police department, despite having a sufficient number of sponsors to pass.

Question topics included the recent rollout of the City's municipal ID program, an internal PBA meeting reported to have degenerated into yelling and shoving over PBA President Pat Lynch's demands for an apology from the mayor and whether that provided «consolation» to the mayor, whether he takes comfort from the low number of PBA members reported to have signed «stay away from my funeral» statements, Bratton's comment that the «well was poisoned» by de Blasio's bring of former Sharpton aide Rachel Noerdlinger, a potential Teamsters strike at Hunts Point market, Governor Cuomo's consideration of legislation allowing public access to grand jury minutes, the mayor's objections to a City Council proposed bill outlawing police use of chokeholds, a reported Cuomo / Lynch meeting and what role the governor should fill in the Lynch / de Blasio dispute, whether the mayor is willing to acknowledge «missteps», the reports of Legionnaire's Disease in Co-op City, de Blasio's reaction to a possible 2016 Mitt Romney candidacy and when he last spoke with the Rev. Al Sharpton.

The two men, antagonists on many issues of police policy, have come to be occasional allies over the past three decades, especially on the subject of reducing the number of guns on the city's streets.

The numbers come in the wake of a wave of protests throughout the city about the police force, particularly an NYPD officer who was not indicted for the chokehold death of Eric Garner.

She said the city does not have the budget to hire more than the current number of vacant police officer positions.

Police commissioner Bill Bratton said it's possible New York City could see a coordinated series of terrorist attacks similar to the ones in Paris Friday, and stressed the Big Apple remains their number one target.

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Police commissioner Bill Bratton for the first time called the recent decrease in the number of arrests and summonses by city officers «a pretty widespread work stoppage,» in an interview on NPR's «All Thing Considered.»

With little fanfare, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly has issued an «operation order» that could dramatically reduce the number of marijuana arrests in the city.

State Senator Marty Golden, a Republican from Brooklyn who is a former police officer, asked Bratton about the number of New York City police officers in uniforms on the street.

Topics in the Q&A included the source of money for the City's planned pre-K advertising campaign, the City's target number of pre-K applicants, whether Speaker Silver thinks the proposed income tax surcharge should be pursued next year, how the pre-K selection process will work, how the City will cover the approximately $ 40 million annual gap between the estimated cost of pre-K and the amount provided in the state budget, when parents will learn whether their pre-K application has been accepted, how the City will collect data and measure success of the pre-K program, whether the existing pre-K application process will be changed, how the City will use money from the anticipated school bond issue, the mayor's reaction to a 2nd Circuit ruling that City may bar religious groups from renting after - hours space in public schools, the status on a proposed restaurant in Union Square, a tax break included in the state budget that provides millions of dollars to a Bronx condominium project, the «shop & frisk» meeting today between the Rev. Al Sharpton and Police Commissioner Bratton and a pending HPD case against a Brooklyn landlord.

Union leaders have accused de Blasio of not being sufficiently supportive of police, and have said the drop - off in enforcement activity was due to low morale, a large number of protests throughout the city, and increased safety precautions following the killing of two officers in Brooklyn on December 20.

City Council members are questioning a number of departments, including Fire and Police, emergency communication and neighborhood and business development.

The candidates fielded questions about police reform, public housing, the New York City Housing Authority lead paint scandal, and increasing the number of contracts given to minority - and women - owned businesses and enterprises.

Perhaps the highest - profile unresolved issue was the marijuana proposal, which Mr. Cuomo unveiled to fanfare this month as a means to reduce the high number of arrests resulting from police stops in New York City.

ALBANY — The New York Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police Police Department, the mayor and the city's top prosecutors on Monday endorsed a proposal to decriminalize the open possession of small amounts of marijuana, giving an unexpected lift to an effort by Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo to cut down on the number of people arrested as a result of police police stops.

As we reveal today, Tony Blair's reckless relaxation of licensing laws — which was fiercely opposed by police, medics and a Daily Mail campaign — has led to an explosion in the number of towns and cities plagued by late - night violence and disorder.

However, when we looked at socioeconomic quantities — quantities that have no analogue in biology, like wages, patents produced, crime, number of police, et cetera — we found that unlike everything we'd seen in biology, cities scale in a superlinear fashion: The exponent was bigger than 1, about 1.15.

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The city's police - officers union is cracking down on the number of «get out of jail free» courtesy cards distributed to cops to give to family and...

Rather than embed with just one individual or group or take only a drug war framing to the transportation of narcotics, «The Trade» follows a number of different throughlines: the boss of an opium poppy production field, addicts in various stages of treatment, police officials in Mexico City and Dayton, Ohio.

In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

Armed law enforcement officers are not educators, social workers, or counselors, and overwhelming evidence shows that when schools involve law enforcement in minor, non-violent behavioral infractions, students of color are disproportionately impacted.1 In our 2015 policy paper, Climate Change: Creating Safe, Supportive Schools for All Students, E4E - New York members pointed out that there are more police officers than school counselors in New York City schools and called on the NYC Department of Education to turn this shameful number on its head by increasing the amount of school counselors.

Blaming recent spikes in violence in part on Mayor Rahm Emanuel's policies, former Chicago Public Schools CEO Paul Vallas on Monday laid out an ambitious staffing plan to increase the city's number of sworn police officers and supervisors.

Upon arriving at the OK School Choice Summit last Thursday, I was surprised to see a handful of friends who were denied entry and a larger number of Oklahoma City police guarding Oklahoma City Community College's performing arts auditorium.

Click here to download graph of Number of Police Officers in Major Cities vs. SSAs in NYC Schools (PDF).