No one will be manning Pittsburgh’s police precincts overnight any longer under policy changes announced Friday by Chief Larry Scirotto for the 743-officer force. The changes, which have already begun, affect all six zone stations across the city and the new Downtown substation from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m., seven
A watchdog agency has launched a probe into a woman’s middle-of-the-night encounter last month with Pittsburgh police minutes before she was killed by a hit-and-run driver on the West End Bridge. Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of Pittsburgh’s Citizen Police Review Board, told TribLive this week that she opened the inquiry
Twelve minutes before a car struck and killed Faye McCoy on the West End Bridge last month, she was talking to Pittsburgh police officers nearby. It was almost 3 a.m. on Jan. 27, and police had just arrested McCoy’s friend for drunken driving after the car they were in struck
On today’s episode of The Confluence: The state’s Independent Regulatory Review Commission has approved new definitions of sex, religious creed, and race, but some argue the new definitions should have been created by the legislature; Pittsburgh’s Citizen Police Review Board has received the fewest number of complaints thus far this year compared to the 25 years the board has been in place, according to the board’s executive director; and a look at the ongoing issues incarcerated people are having at Allegheny County Jail when it comes to accessing reading materials.
Today’s guests include: Mark Scolforo, reporter for the Associated Press; and Elizabeth Pittinger, executive director of the city’s Citizen Police Review Board.
Yesterday, the Citizen Police Review Board held a public hearing on "rude and discourteous" police behavior. Six Pittsburghers shared allegations of police harassment and abuse of power. The CPRB reports 220 complaints so far this year.