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The Shreveport Police Department is down a hundred officers and the numbers are steadily declining.
The Shreveport Police Department has dwindled in size over the years. The police department currently has 479 officers and that is a 7% decrease in just four years. The Times reported SPD had 514 officers in August of 2017.
Chief Ben Raymond said in a #SaferShreveport press conference Monday afternoon that Shreveport is working under the fully allocated strength.
“We are over hundred officers down, that is to reach fully allocated strength. Now, we don’t ever get to fully allocated strength to be perfectly honest with you,” said Raymond. “We need to add 50 or 60 officers to our roster.”
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By Sue Danielson
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(Cedar Rapids, IA) A Waterloo man s been sentenced to eight years in prison, after pleading guilty to possessing a firearm as a felon. U.S. District Judge C.J. Williams called 28-year-old Trenton Sliekers was a violent man and a very dangerous person who had at least three prior violent crimes, who kept committing crime after crime.
The judge further found that Sliekers posed a “danger” and was “likely to reoffend.”
Statements at sentencing indicated that Sliekers used the firearm to shoot six times from a motorcycle at a home occupied by multiple people, including children. Documents at sentencing noted that one of the bullets lodged in a couch cushion.
A day after Chicago saw a series of mass shootings in a matter of hours, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland appeared in the city Thursday to meet with police and community leaders as the Justice Department launches new efforts to stem the flow of illegal firearms here.
Garland, a native of north suburban Lincolnwood, began the day in Washington, D.C., to announce the formation of strike forces aimed at going after gun traffickers in several cities, including Chicago, at a time when urban America had seen spikes in gun violence.
He then traveled to Chicago to meet with U.S. Attorney John Lausch, who will oversee the local strike force, as well as police and community leaders, officials said.