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Report: Tampa Police write more tickets than other agencies

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An analysis by The Tampa Bay Times showed that Tampa police wrote more tickets last year than sheriff’s offices in Hillsborough, Pinellas and Pasco counties combined and more per capita than cops in Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando, the state’s four other largest cities. And no other law enforcement agency in the state arrests more people than the Tampa Police Department. The paper reported that each arrest, each ticket, feeds into a formula that calculates an officer’s “productivity ratio”…

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Bob Buckhorn names his seven choices to Citizens Review Board

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(Updated) Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s office announced on Monday the names of his seven choices and two alternates to serve on the Citizens Review Board, the recently named agency assigned to review Tampa police producers and policies. The announcement comes after the mayor and the City Council quarreled for over a month about how many selections each would get for the nine-member board plus two alternates. That issue was resolved when the council voted two weeks ago to have the mayor…

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Mitch Perry Report for 10.9.15 — 1st chapter in Tampa citizens review board saga ends

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The activists went home unhappy last night, but their goals were never the same as the majority on the Tampa City Council when it came to the creation of a citizens review board to review the Tampa Police Department. The Council voted 5-2 Thursday evening for a compromise proposal on who gets to select the members of the nine-member board and two alternates; Mayor Bob Buckhorn will get five choices, the Council four, and the mayor still gets to pick the two alternates that were…

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Tampa activists blast Bob Buckhorn’s version of a police Civilian Review Board

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If it were up to Bob Buckhorn, there wouldn’t be a police Civilian Review Board (CRB). The mayor signed an executive order creating such a board late last week, after activists and later City Council Chairman Frank Reddick began calling for such an agency in the wake of the report by the Tampa Bay Times in April that the Tampa Police Department was disproportionately citing blacks for bicycle infractions. However, those same citizens who were calling for its creation are criticizing what the…

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Frank Reddick to propose an alternative on selecting members to Tampa civilian review board

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Tampa City Council Chairman Frank Reddick says he supports the details in Mayor Bob Buckhorn’s plan for a police civilian review board announced on Friday, but he absolutely opposes the fact Buckhorn will choose all but two members of the 11-member board, which includes two alternates. At the next Council meeting on Thursday he plans to unveil his own proposal for an 11-member board, which would give the mayor two selections, Police Chief Eric Ward two selections, and the City…

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Bob Buckhorn announces police civilian review board, but activists say it falls short

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Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn and Police Chief Eric Ward announced the creation of an independent civilian police review board Friday, but the activists whose public pressure led to the formation of the new agency are not pleased with how it will be implemented. The board will consist of 11 members — nine voting members and two alternates — and Buckhorn will choose nine of those 11 members. The City Council will have two selections, though when Buckhorn was questioned about that…

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Tampa Police say they’ve written only 13 bike tickets this summer

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Tampa Police Chief Eric Ward told the City Council this morning that bike citations in the city are down 69 percent this summer – a radical reduction in citations after a published report this spring showed that the police department had written more bike tickets in the past three years than Jacksonville, Miami, St. Petersburg and Orlando combined – with 80 percent of them going to black people. Police gave out 59 bike tickets from May through July, Ward said.…

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