PUBLIC SAFETY
Pittsburgh reveals gun control bills promised after Tree of Life shooting
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Pittsburgh city officials on Friday announced a trio of gun control bills in response to the Oct. 27 shooting deaths of 11 people at Tree of Life synagogue.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Pittsburgh officials pursue a new strategy to push for aggressive gun control measures
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Pittsburgh officials are urging local governments across the country to join them on instituting new gun control laws after the October mass shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue.
PUBLIC SAFETY
In disciplining cops, Pennsylvania’s standards trail other states
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Because lawmakers gave limited authority to the agency responsible for police certification, Pennsylvania has no oversight over noncriminal findings of misconduct, aside from dishonesty during the certification process.
PublicSource Investigation
Woman accused Pittsburgh council hopeful Quincy Kofi Swatson of non-consensual sex and assault
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Pittsburgh City Council hopeful Quincy Kofi Swatson has been accused of assaulting a woman and engaging in non-consensual sex, according to a September court document.
EDUCATION
The prospect of arming officers in Pittsburgh Public Schools draws an emotional protest and 70 speakers
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A public hearing was held at the Pittsburgh Public Schools Building after the district’s Chief of School Safety requested to arm officers earlier this month.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Low funding, strained patrols and officer turnover common among some Mon Valley police departments. Will East Pittsburgh’s crisis spur change elsewhere?
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East Pittsburgh is grappling with the fate of its police force, leaning on solutions like consolidation that have long-been discussed in the fragmented region, largely without success.
Will crisis force change? In East Pittsburgh, officials hope so. But interviews with numerous chiefs and leaders in the region reveal a persistent status quo, where funding drastically differs across a patchwork of boroughs and some communities struggle to recruit officers to work breakneck hours for dismal pay.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Pittsburgh’s mayor, controller call for policy changes, investigation in wake of PublicSource body camera probe
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Pittsburgh’s mayor and its controller are calling for policy changes in response to a PublicSource investigation showing that a no-bid, $1.5 million police body camera contract with Axon Enterprise was ushered to city officials by a police commander with financial ties to the company.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Why is the FBI’s count of local homicides wrong? Some police departments aren’t properly reporting.
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Check annual federal and state crime numbers, and you’ll find more than 80 cases Allegheny County homicides missing from 2010 through 2015. It’s difficult to explain such a large deviation.
TRUMP'S FIRST 100 DAYS
Sen. Casey wants more federal funding for public safety, asks Trump to ‘prove’ he’s tough on terrorism
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Sen. Bob Casey in Pittsburgh today scolded the Trump administration for not backing off from the “obsession” of campaign rhetoric and cracking down on refugees in a way he feels makes the country less safe.
PUBLIC SAFETY
Law enforcement sees troubling link between opioid crisis, illegal guns in Pittsburgh area
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A Glock .45 is not a banknote. But for those in the deepest thralls of opioid addiction, it might as well be hard currency.
