Suspended Auditor Jake Jaksetic discovered the issue in June. Councilwoman Katie Moline found it still had not been resolved over a month later, emails show.
(TOLEDO, Ohio) At a community block watch meeting earlier this month outside of Toledo, Ohio, residents told personal stories of break-ins, burglaries, road rage and shootings in their neighborhoods and they pressed local police about the response to ongoing crime. "This is my hometown. This is something unlike anything I've ever seen in my
krisanapong detraphiphat/Getty Images, FILE(TOLEDO, Ohio) At a community block watch meeting earlier this month outside of Toledo, Ohio, residents told personal stories of break-ins, burglaries, road rage and shootings in their neighborhoods and they pressed local police about the response to ongoing crime. "This is my hometown. This is something unlike anything I've ever seen in my lifetime," Florence McLennan, who helps organize the monthly gatherings, told ABC News. "When I grew up as a child, we didn't lock our doors. We didn't close our windows. We could walk anywhere at any time of the day or night. I would be apprehensive to do that today. Things have definitely changed drastically." McLennan is not wrong about the last few years. Until 2021, Toledo averaged about 30 homicides a year. But then the number of homicides more than doubled in 2021 to 71 and Toledo was not alone. An ABC News analysis found Toledo was one of more than a dozen citi
While crime rates are declining in 2022 in major cities, Republican midterm candidates have seized on past the spikes in violence and voters' anxieties on the issue