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Philadelphia's private landlord-tenant officer is facing a lawsuit and mounting pressure from legislators to be more accountable and transparent.
Off-duty Philadelphia Police Officer Thomas Munz Jr. died in a crash along South Broad Street on May 25, 2022. The Philadelphia District Attorney's office...
Multiple officers followed him there, according to a review of exit interview forms obtained by the Oregonian. Those forms, obtained through a public records request, showed many of the officers who quit in the past year had grown frustrated with the City Council and the public’s attitude toward them. Portland’s City Council voted last year to cut $27 million from the police bureau’s budget and is considering more reductions in funding, despite the force’s struggle to retain officers. The police bureau lost 115 officers between July of last year and April of this year. In the first f...
Almost half of Philadelphia’s firefighters and police have skipped the COVID-19 vaccines, unions say Updated May 12, 2021; Posted May 12, 2021 Members of the U.S. Armed Forces gather before a FEMA community vaccination center opens on March 2, 2021 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Mark Makela/Getty Images/TNS)TNS Facebook Share PHILADELPHIA — Nearly half of Philadelphia’s fire and police workers are unvaccinated despite being eligible to receive the shot for months, according to unions representing both groups. Philadelphia Firefighters Local 22, which represents about 2,800 firefighte...
Philadelphia Firefighters Local 22, reported 51% of its members have been vaccinated. The Fraternal Order of Police Lodge Five reported more than half the force had been vaccinated.