This technique, known as “area denial,” has been used in both military and crowd-control settings. The speakers can produce a louder sound than a traditional device, such as a megaphone, and ...

But on June 15, the Seattle City Council voted unanimously to take away non-lethal chemical and projectile methods police have been using for crowd control, and Durkan will allow it to take effect.

Mayor Jenny Durkan has asked a federal judge to prevent a new City Council ordinance banning Seattle police from using most “crowd-control weapons” from taking effect later this month, saying ...

And the law states that "the Mayor shall provide" police services "as the President may deem necessary and appropriate." In that situation, the president can control MPD for only 48 hours.

Currently, the police department in Kansas City is the only city of its kind to be under such a system — and Mayor Quinton Lucas says it doesn't work. Missouri may take control over St. Louis ...

(The Center Square) – Seattle City Councilmember Cathy Moore has announced proposed reforms to limit the Seattle Police Department’s use of blast balls for crowd control. Blast balls are ...

Slay, who led the city from 2001 to 2017, was the first mayor to hire a police chief in more than a century. The state legislature stripped St. Louis of its control over the local department ...

If they have a little too much fun, we have to deal with it,” the Mayor of Put-In-Bay, Judy Berry said. On Saturday, July 22, 2023, she says the crowds got out of hand.

Baltimore voters will be asked once again to weigh in on local control of the Baltimore Police Department. The Baltimore City Council approved a proposed charter amendment Monday that would create ...