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Buffalo Police Department
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Halton-Pope moves to write Buffalo’s limits on ICE cooperation into city law
A Common Council resolution would direct Corporation Counsel to codify Mayor Sean Ryan’s January executive order barring city resources from federal civil immigration enforcement, with quarterly reports to the Council.
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Four charged with murder in alleged plot to kill a witness, as federal gun case and day care shutdown round out the week
An indictment accuses five Buffalo residents of conspiring to kill a murder-trial witness. The week also brought a federal gun-trafficking complaint, Timon Street arrests and a state shutdown of a Ransomville day…
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Woman shoved by Buffalo’s deputy police commissioner files notice of claim, halting Internal Affairs review
The woman First Deputy Police Commissioner Craig Macy shoved to the ground on Chippewa Street in July has filed a notice of claim against Buffalo, pausing the department’s Internal Affairs review of…
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Buffalo officer charged with stalking ex-girlfriend had been investigated by Internal Affairs 13 times
Officer Benjamin Coughlin pleaded not guilty to stalking and harassment and is suspended without pay. His disciplinary record shows a suspension, three reprimands and two open excessive-force cases.
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Buffalo’s police overtime keeps climbing, and the city’s own auditors say staffing alone doesn’t explain it
Buffalo police overtime topped $17 million last year and has grown by more than a third in five years. The union blames a 100-officer shortage, but the comptroller’s numbers show overtime rising…
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Shootings are falling in most of New York’s hardest-hit cities. Buffalo and Niagara Falls are going the other way
Shootings with injuries are down 16% across the state’s GIVE cities this year, but Buffalo is up 14% and Niagara Falls has nearly doubled, state data show. Most of Buffalo’s increase came…
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Defendant sentenced to sex offender probation for unlawful surveillance
Erie County District Attorney John J. Flynn announces that 28-year-old Glendale Snead of Buffalo has been sentenced by State Supreme Court Justice John Michalski to 5 years of sex offender probation. The…
