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The four finalists to be the next Columbus police chief — Elaine Bryant, Derrick Diggs, Avery Moore and Ivonne Roman — will answer questions from the public during a 90-minute forum Wednesday. The forum, which begins at 6 p.m., will be livestreamed on the city's YouTube and Facebook pages, as well as broadcast on CTV.  For the first time in the city's history, Columbus will hire from outside the city to lead the Division of Police. Questions can be submitted in advance of the community forum by emailing policechiefsearch@columbus.gov. The Dispatch reached out to all four finalists. B...

  VANCOUVER -- CTV News has learned a Vancouver police officer previously convicted of threatening a business owner is now under review by the VPD and B.C.’s police watchdog for comments made to an overdose prevention advocate. Const. Deepak Sood was recorded in a confrontation with the executive director of the Overdose Prevention Society over the weekend in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside, with the officer saying "I'll smack you" one, and a second recording ending by telling her to “go back to dealing drugs.” “When he threatened to smack me, I was actually afraid,“ said Sarah...

Protesters and police clashed in Rochester on May 30, 2020. Officers with the Rochester Police Department brutalized protesters, lawyers, and innocent bystanders during Black Lives Matter protests in September, according to a federal lawsuit filed in the United States Western New York District Court. The complaint was filed Monday on behalf of several key players in Rochester’s recent protest movement, including the organizing group Free the People Roc, organizers Anthony Hall and Stanley Martin, and the National Lawyers’ Guild of Rochester, which provided legal services during...

The Vancouver Police Department (VPD) has reassigned two officers who were captured on video taking photos next to a dead body last week. After the incident occurred on February 25, footage of the officers was shared by Instagram user @zac.news. The video appears to show a VPD officer posing near a cadaver at Third Beach as a second officer takes a photo. The person behind the camera asks the officers, “Is that a deceased person?” To which one responds, “Ya.”     Simi Heer, Director of Public Affairs for the VPD, tells Daily Hive that the two officers were reassigned on Monday morn...

Michael Mazzeo, president of the Rochester Police Locust Club, said Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, that the officers involved in the incident that led to Daniel Prude's death conducted themselves consistent with their training. For its March issue, CITY published an expansive story detailing the history of the Rochester Police Locust Club, the union which represents the 701 sworn officers of the Rochester Police Department. A series of detailed questions were submitted to Locust Club President Michael Mazzeo, asking his stance on current contentious issues related to policing, police refo...