By Jack Troy, Assistant Opinions Editor
• October 20, 2021
Police departments would like you to think that they’re doing valuable work to make cities safer and when crimes do occur, they’re able to track down the suspects.
About 150 people gathered Tuesday evening at Freedom Corner in the Hill District after a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder and manslaughter. The crowd marched down Forbes Avenue through Pitt’s campus.
Mayor Bill Peduto said at a roundtable last Thursday that reforming the Pittsburgh Bureau of Police requires investing more in the police force rather than defunding it. No protest organizers were included as panelists at the event.
By Emily Wolfe, Contributing Editor
• May 12, 2019
A part-time instructor in Pitt’s School of Computing and Information has been charged with kidnapping two women in Pittsburgh after he picked them up for an Uber ride early Saturday morning. Police reported...
City police arrested two men for the death of the man found on the 3200 block of Ward Street Monday afternoon.
The men in custody are 21-year-old Velmon Dowling and 22-year-old Shayne Andrew Craighead....
A man was found dead Monday afternoon on Ward Street in South Oakland, according to city police.
The body appears to have been driven to the location after the victim was shot in McKeesport, Pitt police...
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