What Did We Learn This Week About the Dallas Police Chief Candidates?
Most of the candidates spoke about improved community engagement and police reform. Now the decision rests with the city manager.
By
Matt Goodman and Peter Simek
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December 17, 2020
1:28 pm
Before Christmas, the city will learn who the next chief of the Dallas Police Department will be. This week, the City Council, mayor, community stakeholders, and the public got a glimpse of the seven candidates vying for the position. On Tuesday, dozens of community groups participated in private group panels with the candidates. Yesterday the finalists fielded questions posed by City Council candidates during a three-hour-plus livestream. While the decision is City Manager T.C. Broadnax’s alone, the candidates spent hours introducing themselves to the people they’ll be working for.
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CHARLOTTESVILLE (WINA) – Both Charlottesville Police and the sheriff’s office are warning residents of a scam where someone calls you posing as a law enforcement officer who wants to speak to you about an “urgent legal matter”. Reports they’ve received is someone posing at a “Lt. Newberry” or “Lt. Russell” demanding money, or asking for personal information such as a bank account number or social security number to settle the issue.
CPD says no one from the police department or sheriff’s office will ever call you on the phone and threaten you with legal proceedings. If you get such a call, CPD advises to hang up immediately and you’re encouraged to call police on the non-emergency line at 434-977-9041. An officer will follow-up on the incident for documentation.
On November 30, Judge Bobby Downer of the Charlottesville General District Court ordered the City to pay Kessler’s court costs for violating his FOIA rights. But Judge Downer demurred on delving into the destruction of documents issue, which he said had to be decided by the Circuit Court.
Accordingly, the new Kessler lawsuit renews his request for a Writ of Mandamus, this time seeking to compel the City to recover the destroyed documents by any means necessary, including hiring a forensics and eDiscovery firm to recover the data.
The new Kessler lawsuit [
Kessler v Jones, Thomas, et al (PDF)] filed December 11 in Charlottesville Circuit Court, seeks an admission that Charlottesville officials violated the law, specifically the Public Records Act and Freedom of Information Act, by destroying public records that were relevant to ongoing litigation involving Unite the Right.
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What do residents want in new Dallas police chief? Survey shows someone who can lower crime
In a survey, people explained what qualities they want in Chief U. Reneé Hall’s successor. They’ll also be able to watch live interviews with 7 finalists
Dallas Police Chief U. Reneé Hall talks to her boss, Dallas City Manager T.C. Broadnax, during a City Council meeting in February 2019. Hall resigned in September and will leave the department at the end of the year.(Shaban Athuman / Staff Photographer)
The leading candidates to become the 30th Dallas police chief will be interviewed in a televised Q&A session on Wednesday.