Three-term mayors in Pittsburgh are rare, and incumbent Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto is trying to join that club. But this year, he’s garnered some considerable.
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The Pittsburgh Bureau of Police released the department’s annual report on Tuesday, a 169-page document giving a breakdown of everything from the race and gender of the city’s victims and offenders to the number of lawsuits filed and settled against the department and individual officers.
Chief Scott Schubert called 2020 a “challenging year on many levels.”
“But every challenge provides an opportunity,” Schubert said in a statement. “I believe we have an opportunity now to reevaluate and reconfigure how we think and operate as an organization and profession.”
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Pittsburgh Police Officers stand at a scene in the city’s Homewood section on Tuesday, April 20, 2021. The officers were patroling on foot when they were flagged down for a report of an unresponsive man. The officers administered Narcan and performed chest compressions, saving the man.
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Pittsburgh Police Zone 3 Officer Aundre Wright wasn’t supposed to be walking the beat in Homewood on Tuesday. He and three other officers weren’t supposed to be headed the direction they were going.