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Police Chief Keith Humphrey’s leadership included conflicting remarks about the crime rate in Little Rock.
Up or down? Humphrey himself has said homicides have increased, but he’s said the increase is in line with national experience. He also attributed it to the pandemic, a combination of difficult economic times and people restricted in movement.
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There were also complaints from directors about continuing “caravanning” in the city, an action explained by
City Director Doris Wright, a Humphrey defender, as a byproduct of young people unable to go to places they normally frequent. (No private business is closed by city or state rule, though after-hours clubs have an 11 p.m. closing time and city facilities are limited.)
Credit City of Little Rock
The Little Rock Board of Directors decided to postpone taking a vote regarding the city’s 2021 budget for two weeks, as well as a resolution that “express[ed] concern” regarding the continued employment of the city’s police chief.
Board members ultimately tabled consideration of the budget Tuesday night, after not accruing the needed eight votes to push the ordinance to a third reading, with a vote of 7-3.
It was a conclusion that could have happened over an hour earlier after Ward Five City Director Lance Hines made a motion to table his own resolution that would have expressed a lack of confidence in the leadership of Little Rock Police Chief Keith Humphrey, and would have adjourned the rest of the meeting.
Little Rock Board of Directors tables no-confidence resolution on police chief, but not before fireworks MAYOR FRANK SCOTT JR. Brian Chilson
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Little Rock Board of Directors voted to table consideration of a symbolic no-confidence vote on
Police Chief Keith Humphrey Tuesday night, but not before tensions flared between some board members and Mayor Frank Scott Jr. amid contentious questions over parliamentary procedure.
The chief answers to Scott, not the board. The resolution from Ward 5 Director
Lance Hines urges Scott “to take appropriate action” with Humphrey, who Scott hired and has continued to support.
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Earlier Tuesday,
City Attorney Tom Carpenter sent a memo to Hines encouraging him not to move forward on the resolution because of litigation involving the Little Rock Police Department.
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