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Interim Columbus Police Chief Stoney Mathis wants to cut nearly 45 open positions in order to give a $5,000 pay raise to officers and dispatchers as a way to improve retention...

Now an official candidate for the permanent post, Mathis wants to reduce burglaries and entering automobiles to prevent people from stealing weapons and committing more violent crimes.

The former police chief of Georgia’s second-largest city has become a teacher.

The former police chief of Georgia’s second-largest city has become a teacher. Freddie Blackmon was police chief in Columbus until the city council paid him $400,000 to retire in April.

A Black former police chief, who was accused of discriminating against two white officers, has retired. Freddie Blackmon now teaches social studies at Fort Middle School in Georgia.

Here’s where former Columbus Police Chief Freddie Blackmon is working now. And it’s not in law enforcement.

A Georgia city is paying $600,000 to settle claims that a Black former police chief racially discriminated against two white officers.

A Georgia city is paying $600,000 to settle claims that a Black former police chief racially discriminated against two white officers by not promoting them. The Columbus City Council voted

COLUMBUS, Ga. (AP) - A Georgia city is paying $600,000 to settle claims that a Black former police chief racially discriminated against two white officers by not promoting them. The Ledger Enquirer of Columbus reports that the Columbus City …

Lt. Ralph Dowe and Lt. Tony Litle said they weren't promoted because they are white.