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The four finalists to be the next Columbus police chief — Elaine Bryant, Derrick Diggs, Avery Moore and Ivonne Roman — will answer questions from the public during a 90-minute forum Wednesday. The forum, which begins at 6 p.m., will be livestreamed on the citys YouTube and Facebook pages, as well as broadcast on CTV.  For the first time in the citys history, Columbus will hire from outside the city to lead the Division of Police. Questions can be submitted in advance of the community f...

  VANCOUVER -- CTV News has learned a Vancouver police officer previously convicted of threatening a business owner is now under review by the VPD and B.C.’s police watchdog for comments made to an overdose prevention advocate. Const. Deepak Sood was recorded in a confrontation with the executive director of the Overdose Prevention Society over the weekend in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, with the officer saying "Ill smack you" one, and a second recording ending by telling her to “go...

Protesters and police clashed in Rochester on May 30, 2020. Officers with the Rochester Police Department brutalized protesters, lawyers, and innocent bystanders during Black Lives Matter protests in September, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the United States Western New York District Court. The complaint was filed Monday on behalf of several key players in Rochester’s recent protest movement, including the organizing group Free the People Roc, organizers Anthony Hall and ...

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has reassigned two officers who were captured on video taking photos next to a dead body last week. After the incident occurred on February 25, footage of the officers was shared by Instagram user @zac.news. The video appears to show a VPD officer posing near a cadaver at Third Beach as a second officer takes a photo. The person behind the camera asks the officers, “Is that a deceased person?” To which one responds, “Ya.”     Simi Heer, Director ...

Michael Mazzeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, that the officers involved in the incident that led to Daniel Prudes death conducted themselves consistent with their training. For its March issue, CITY published an expansive story detailing the history of the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union which represents the 701 sworn officers of the Rochester Police Department. A series of detailed questions were submitted to Locust Club Preside...

PHOTO COURTESY THE CITY OF ROCHESTER Rochester Police Department officers don helmets and batons during the riots of 1964, the same year the Rochester Police Locust Club negotiated its first labor pact with the city. Around the time that a Rochester police officer pulled out her pepper spray to use on a 9-year-old-girl, Mike Mazzeo, the president of the Rochest...

The county medical examiner listed the manner of death as a homicide caused by “complications of asphyxia in the setting of physical restraint” and cited PCP as a contributing factor.

PHOTO CREDIT JAMES BROWN, WXXI NEWS A police officer inside a Rochester Police Cruiser. Three Rochester men are seeking a federal monitor for the Rochester Police Department as part of an excessive force and false arrest lawsuit they’ve filed against the department. In a complaint filed Thursday in federal court, the three men allege that they were physically...