In 2020, amid the disruptions of the pandemic and the social upheaval following George Floyd s death at the hands of police in Minneapolis, the United States saw the largest increase in its homicide rate in modern history. Now, more than three years after the start of the pandemic, the country is on track to record one of its largest if not the largest annual declines in homicides, according to a report released Thursday.
Divisions across the Little Rock Police Department will experience a shakeup of the chain of command under a reorganization plan to be implemented next month, members of the Little Rock Board of Directors were told during a meeting on Tuesday.
Law enforcement in Pulaski County investigated eight homicides in March, all of them in Little Rock, making the month deadlier than February, when three people were killed, but less so than January, when nine people were slain.
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