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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.
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.
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.
A Glock .45 is not a banknote. But for those in the deepest thralls of opioid addiction, it might as well be hard currency.
