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“Some parents may not realize that their kids are scared about whether or not they’re going to come back home,” singer-songwriter Tenley Moran said
Minnesota is currently short of more than 1,000 officers across the state
The Minnesota Law Enforcement Labor Service reports that nearly 50% of the state’s police departments are suffering from insufficient staff
Mayor Tom Barrett raised concerns that the PD budget is now greater than the tax levy for the entire city, and has been since 2016
The FHP is currently operating with 201 vacancies in a workforce that is supposed to be 1,946 at full capacity
Since the 2008 financial crisis, 74 percent of state pension plans and 57 percent of the largest local plans had cut some type of benefits or raised employee contributions
The city council applied for involuntary disability retirement for six officers, claiming they are all unable to perform their duties
A male supervisor, who ordered that the patient be removed from the hospital, was also fired
The union that represents both police officers filed an appeal of the discipline within hours of the announcement
The officer who drove the patrol car the day of the November 2014 shooting was suspended
Since 2010, the agency has lost 993 troopers — or about half of its workforce of 1,946 troopers, to retirement or resignations
While the city’s police and fire departments have increased or held steady the number of women in their ranks, female rangers have dropped
The “public safety officer homebuyer assistance” program aims to improve safety in crime-plagued neighborhoods
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