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Youngstown Police Chief Carl Davis took questions from City Council members Thursday. Staff file photo YOUNGSTOWN — City council members Anita Davis and Jimmy Hughes offered praise and support to new police Chief Carl Davis — at the end of a nearly two-hour grilling by council’s safety committee. Five council members, during a Thursday safety committee session, quizzed the chief hard on his plans to acquire body cameras and how he will improve the police department’s transparency and c...

If former Youngstown police Chief Robin Lees holds any bitterness from Mayor Jamael Tito Brown’s decision to terminate him, it wasn’t showing. Rather, Lee

Carl Davis, right, Youngstown’s newest police chief, talks about working to regain the community’s trust while Mayor Jamael Tito Brown, who appointed him Friday, listens. YOUNGSTOWN — Carl Davis, the city’s new police chief, said he wants to “rebuild trust and confidence” in the department. Davis, a 34-year veteran of the city police force, said how to do that is a challenge, but one he is up to meeting. Mayor Jamael Tito Brown appointed Davis, who was a detective sergeant, as...

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Jan 15, 2021 YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jamael Tito Brown today named Detective Sgt. Carl Davis as the city’s next police chief. Brown fired Robin Lees last week as chief as the two differed on police policies. Lees last day as chief is today. Read MORE in Saturday’s VINDICATOR. NEWSLETTER Im interested in (please check all that apply) Daily Newsletter

Robin Lees, Youngstown’s police chief for the past seven years, was fired by Mayor Jamael Tito Brown because of differences about the department’s direction. YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jamael Tito Brown fired Robin Lees, police chief for the past seven years, because of differing opinions about the department’s direction. Lees said his last day will be Jan. 15. He said Thursday that Brown “was looking for a different approach. He’s looking for a change in direction is the best way I ...

YOUNGSTOWN — Mayor Jamael Tito Brown has fired Robin Lees as police chief, effective Jan. 15. Lees said he recently spoke to Brown, who said he wanted to go in a different direction at the police department. “He was looking for a different approach,” Lees said. “He’s looking for a change in direction is the best way I could describe it.” Lees said he planned to leave as chief at the end of the year before his ouster. Lees joined the city force in December 1978, and rose to lieutenan...

U.S. Marshals in northern Ohio close in on milestone as task force nears 50,000 arrests of fugitives Updated Jan 02, 2021; Posted Jan 02, 2021 Members of a U.S. Marshals Service task force lead Robert Shelton to a patrol car following his arrest in February. The task force is approaching a law-enforcement milestone: It has made nearly 50,000 arrests of fugitives. [U.S. Marshals photo] Facebook Share CLEVELAND, Ohio – They hid from their pasts beneath dilapidated porches and atop thin roofto...

Through pandemic, floods and protests, these Michiganders helped all of us weather 2020 Updated on Dec 30, 2020; Published on Dec 28, 2020 20 Michiganders who stepped up in 2020 are pictured in this composite image. Twitter Share A pandemic. A 500-year flood. A summer of clashes between activists and police. In a year that turned much of what we know about the world on its head, everyday Michiganders stepped up and navigated crisis after crisis. Some were motivated by keeping people safe. Som...

Last modified on Thu 17 Dec 2020 03.56 EST Rosalind Evans was one of at least three residents of Barnard Castle who claimed to have seen Dominic Cummings visit the town at the height of the first lockdown, and she is still fuming about it. “There’s no way the passage of time should make any difference to the enormity of what he did,” she says. Cummings admitted a family trip to the town on 12 April, his wife’s birthday, after the Guardian and the Daily Mirror had revealed he...