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An audit of the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police meant to address concerns about racial disparities found that Black residents continue to make up a majority of arrests by city police and seem to be disproportionately hit with marijuana-related arrests despite the city’s decriminalization of small amounts years ago. The audit,
Jim Rogers died in October, one day after Pittsburgh police shocked him with a Taser. Now some experts in police procedure say the officers had no justification for using a Taser against Rogers in the first place.
Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto, in his last police promotion ceremony as mayor on Thursday, promoted his longtime bodyguard from sergeant to assistant chief, leapfrogging the ranks of lieutenant and commander. Peduto defended the relatively unorthodox move before Phil Carey was even sworn in as an assistant chief. “Many people ask
The PA Law Enforcement Citizen Advisory Commission looking back at a deadly force case in a Beaver County standoff.
Allegheny County Police continue to investigate an incident in which a Pittsburgh police officer tasered a man who died a day later. Pittsburgh police did not identify the officer who deployed a Taser at least once against Jim Rogers, who died shortly after 10 a.m. Thursday. About 24 hours earlier,