After Rat Snake Sighting, Pittsburgh Creates New Resource for Animal Safety Concerns
Thanks to various recent wildlife sightings throughout the city, the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police has created a central email for concerned citizens.
April 21, 2021
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After some interesting animal sightings around Pittsburgh, including a large rat snake in Frick Park, there’s a new resource residents will be able to use to report animal welfare concerns to the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police.
The central email address Animal.Law@pittsburghpa.gov may be used to contact animal law team members within the department. Citizens and officers alike also will be able to use it to send information or to ask questions they may have regarding pets, wildlife or general animal safety.
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Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto speaks at a press conference on Monday, April 19.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto joined with law enforcement and community organizers to address a recent surge in violent crimes. During a press conference on the North Side, city officials said that there have been 20 homicides this year, a spike of 80% from the same time last year.
Peduto called on corporations to “invest back into the neighborhoods” by offering jobs to those who need the opportunity most.
“We are not going to solve this by just putting more police officers on the streets,” Peduto said. “This is solved by giving people opportunity that they do not have right now.”
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Six people have been killed after 17 shootings throughout Pittsburgh since April 3, part of a surge of violent crime in the city this year, officials said Monday.
As of Monday, police have investigated 20 homicides and nearly 50 non-fatal shootings in 2021, according to numbers provided by the city’s Department of Public Safety.
The statistics represent an 80% increase in homicides and a 90% increase in shootings when compared to the same time frame in 2020.
It’s part of a national surge in violence, but “this is not Pittsburgh,” police Chief Scott Schubert said in a statement. Police responded to three shootings Sunday night and Monday morning that left one man dead and four others injured.
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