As Hurricane Ian swirled across Florida, the small town of Pembroke Park rushed late Wednesday to tend to an urgent matter of its own: Making sure it had cops patrolling the streets.
A renewed push to shunt low-level policework to civilian employees and private companies drew praise from the federal judge overseeing reforms to the New Orleans Police Department.
Despite bias concerns, respondents in a new Loyola Marymount University survey were generally supportive of the LAPD, with 71% believing that police were "serving and protecting my neighborhood."
In the ruling, a Manhattan judge found that New York City’s vaccine mandate is invalid, and he ordered the reinstatement of any unvaccinated NYPD union members who were fired or put on unpaid leave.
