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Seattle police could get more money, but what will staffing look like? - Fri, 16 Oct 2026 PST

Seattle City Council members disagreed Thursday about how much the mayor's proposal to increase the Police Department's budget by 13.9% would actually grow the agency.

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Spokane Spokesman-Review· Oct 16, 2:59 PMSeattle police could get more money, but what will staffing look like? - Fri, 16 Oct 2026 PST

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VA allows union contract to expire for most employeesIndividuals hired as departmental police officers, firefighters and security guards, exempted from Trump’s anti-union orders, remain covered under the expired collective bargaining agreement, albeit only for “mandatory” conditions of employment.

Government Executive19h agoWhole story →

Teacher suspended for threatening to call ICE on middle schoolers, district saysA mother of a 12-year-old student at Rayburn Middle School in San Antonio, Texas, said he texted her to pick him up from school over alleged comments from a teacher. A spokesperson for the Northside Independent School District said the district is investigating a claim that a teacher threatened to call immigration officials and police on students. 'The…

The Blaze23h agoWhole story →

Protest over arrest of two ‘ICE watchers’ by SAPD, which said federal agents requested assistancePolice said officers received a request for assistance from two off-duty federal agents who said multiple individuals in a vehicle were following them after they left a federal building in Santa Ana.

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Santa Ana police arrest ICE watchers on suspicion of stalking immigration agentsTwo ICE watchers face potential stalking charges after they monitored federal immigration agents by vehicle on Wednesday. An attorney for one of the watchers calls the arrests by Santa Ana police outside their headquarters as baseless.

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'A Devastating Day for Oregon': Suspect Dead, Kids Among Victims in Elementary School ShootingA 16-year-old boy killed three children—ages 5, 8, and 11—and a teacher in a Thursday shooting at Silver Rail Elementary in Bend, Oregon. Bend Police Chief Mike Krantz confirmed their deaths during an evening press conference, where he was joined by department communications manager Sheila Miller, Bend-La Pine Schools Superintendent Steven Cook, Mayor…

Common Dreams1d agoWhole story →

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Judge tosses Trump administration lawsuit over New York City 'sanctuary' lawsA federal judge dismissed a lawsuit brought by the Trump administration to block New York City laws that limit cooperation with federal immigration enforcement, saying the government lacked a valid basis to sue. U.S. District Judge Ramon Reyes in Brooklyn said the Trump administration cannot challenge a ⁠city law that restricts police from detaining…

The Hill16h agoWhole story →

Chile Military Police Praises BTS Fans for 'Exemplary Behavior' During ConcertChile's Carabineros National Gendarmerie unit on Thursday praised Chilean fans of South Korea's superstar boy band BTS for the "exemplary" behavior exhibited at the band's concert in the South American country this week. The post Chile Military Police Praises BTS Fans for ‘Exemplary Behavior’ During Concert appeared first on Breitbart .

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Democrats’ ‘Defund the Police’ Problem Is BackAfter “defund the police” sparked a political backlash in 2020, Democratic candidates largely stopped using the slogan, but the movement behind it has hardly gone away. Before you can defund the police, you first have to convince the public that the police themselves are the problem. In New York City, that is precisely what the...

The Daily Signal13h agoWhole story →

Trump calls armed parent who took down deadly Oregon elementary school shooter a 'great hero'President Donald Trump on Friday told reporters at the White House that the armed individual who took down the deadly Oregon elementary school shooter the previous day "was a great hero," CNN reported . “Well, I’ll tell you what. There was a great hero, and it could have been — as bad as it was, we had a great hero that went in and did the business,"…

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Judge again orders reinstatement of Bureau of Prisons union contracts, but stops short of contemptU.S. District Judge Jordan Oliver found that the agency’s re-termination of its collective bargaining agreements last week violated last month’s preliminary injunction but said he would not police individual contract infractions.

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