“For me, I wonder what the profession is going to be 20 years from now if we’re having these challenges on a nationwide scale. Departments all over are down and recruitment has been difficult.” “This isn’t just an issue in Philadelphia. “We’re getting more calls for service and there are fewer people to answer them,” said Philadelphia Police spokesperson Eric Gripp, whose department has been rotating employees from specialty units for short assignments to increase patrols. Many have shifted veteran officers to patrol, breaking up specialized teams built over decades in order to keep up with 911 calls. It’s insane.”įrom Philadelphia to Portland to Los Angeles, killings and gun violence are rising at the same time officers worn out by the pandemic and disillusioned over the calls to divest from policing that followed George Floyd’s murder are quitting or retiring faster than they can be replaced.ĭepartments are scrambling to recruit in a tight labor market and also rethinking what services they can provide and what role police should play in their communities. “We’re not dissatisfied with the Police Bureau because I think they’re doing the best they can. “To us, it’s not a cold case,” said George Spaulding, who has his son’s signature tattooed on his arm. The detective assigned to investigate the death of Spaulding - a chiropractic assistant who didn’t do drugs, wasn’t in a gang and lived close to the house where he was born - left in 2020 in a wave of retirements and the detective assigned to it now is swamped with fresh cases after Portland’s homicide rate surged 207% since 2019. “With the wires leading to the micro-switch on the news rack doors, I can easily see how someone might have misconstrued it as an improvised explosive device,” LaPerruque said.Five years after Brian Spaulding’s parents found him fatally shot in the home he shared with roommates, his slaying remains a mystery that seems increasingly unlikely to be solved as Portland, Ore., police confront a spike in killings and more than 100 officer vacancies. Kontos put her preliminary estimate of the loss sustained by the VA as a result of the evacuation at $92,855.77, the Times said.Īfter receiving calls about the bomb scares, Times security manager Mike LaPerruque notified law enforcement officials that the musical devices were not dangerous.
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The threat of prosecution was reported a day after Boston officials found 38 blinking electronic signs promoting the Cartoon Network TV show “Aqua Teen Hunger Force” on bridges and other high-profile spots across the city, prompting the closing of a highway and the deployment of bomb squads.Īuthorities are investigating whether Cartoon Network parent Turner Broadcasting Systems Inc., a unit of Time Warner Inc., or other companies should be criminally charged. attorney’s office, said he could not comment on the letters and declined to make copies available to The Associated Press. Paramount spokeswoman Janet Hill also declined comment.
Times spokeswoman Nancy Sullivan said the paper had no comment on the letter. Kontos accused the companies of acting “carelessly in executing the promotional campaign by planting a device that could be mistaken for a bomb in a United States government building post-9/11,” the Times reported Thursday. attorney sent a letter to Paramount and the Times last week, saying her office intended to sue both companies, but would be willing to discuss settlement short of litigation, the Times reported Thursday. The Los Angeles County sheriff’s arson squad blew up a Times newsrack in Santa Clarita as a precaution and the Veterans Affairs Medical Center in West Los Angeles was evacuated for 90 minutes after someone spotted a 6-inch-long red plastic box attached to the newsrack by wires.Īn assistant U.S. But some people thought the devices were bombs and reported them to police.
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Last April, Paramount placed digital devices in 4,500 Times newsracks around the city that played the iconic movie theme music whenever the door was opened.
LOS ANGELES – Federal prosecutors have said they may sue Paramount Pictures and the Los Angeles Times over a promotion for last year’s “Mission: Impossible III.”
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