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		<title>Snapshots: Col. Barstow&#8217;s Private Police Force, 1910</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/07/31/snapshots-col-barstows-private-police-force-1910/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 14:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 26, 1910- Caption from this Sun-Recorder photo: &#8220;Across from the Cathedral of St. Vitus on Lorimar Avenue, Col. Harrison Barstow demonstrates one of the new mechanical call boxes installed for his new police force, to begin operations Monday.&#8221; Colonel Harrison Barstow was a wealthy man who had distinguished himself in the Spanish-American War. Upon returning home, he became very involved in reform efforts, especially disgusted with the amount of graft and corruption in the City&#8217;s police department at the time. Unable to enact change- and finding a loophole in the city charter regarding law enforcement officers- he spent almost all of his family&#8217;s fortune in building up a separate police force, supposedly incorruptable. Two years later, the experiment failed, due to widespread charges of graft and corruption, violent fighting between his police force and the City&#8217;s ranks of official law enforcement officers and confusion as to the private officers&#8217; exact status, leading to many arrests and convictions being overturned. Many of the call boxes (including the one pictured here) remained in place, inactive, until at least the mid-1950s. The whole episode led to a tightening of rules at both the civic and state level regarding exactly who was allowed to enforce [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Shots, Sheep, Sno-Cones</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/06/25/the-blotter-shots-sheep-sno-cones/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 15:24:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from recent City police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 9:45 pm Corner of Simcoe and Newbury Streets: Officers from the 27th Precinct respond to reports of shots fired. Upon investigation, officers discovered that the sound was caused by a 1973 Ford Maverick owned by Edward Willis, 22, of 1785 W. 37th Street. Willis was issued $547 worth of tickets for safety violations. 2 am 1200 block of N. Merkel Street: A 20-year-old man was treated at Nilsson Hospital for a gunshot wound to the leg. Detectives were only able to locate the scene of the shooting based upon the victim&#8217;s blood trail. There has been no arrest and no motive given. 4:03 am 3800 block of Van Dam Street: Harbor Division officers arrest Summit Heights resident Hugo Allen, 34, for theft of services after attempting to walk out of the Harborfront Diner without paying for 3 cups of coffee, a cheese omelet, hash browns, four sausages, two stacks of pancakes, and four glasses of orange juice. Allen also had an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Friday Facts: Budget Woes, FDR, Himmler Bay</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2009/01/09/friday-facts-budget-woes-fdr-himmler-bay/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Count Film-Ula]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[:: Estimated five-year city budget deficit awaiting Maribeth Cosgrove when she is sworn in as mayor on Monday: Over $650 million :: Portion of the city budget in ten years that will have to be paid for pension and benefits, according to current union contracts : 61% :: City union contracts up for renewal this year: Police, fire, administrative staff :: When asked during an informal poll, more than twenty percent of respondents believed that the most physically powerful American president was either Teddy Roosevelt or George Washington. Physically weakest American presidents selected by the majority of respondents included Martin van Buren, John Quincy Adams or George H.W. Bush (though, surprisingly, not Franklin Delano Roosevelt) :: The so-called “Gipsie Murals” were sand-blasted into obscurity on this day in 1960. :: Memorial services for Laura Bonnie Tripp will be held this Tuesday at the viewing promenade at Mabel Tripp Gardens, the public parks facility named after her great-grandmother. The 70-year-old was better known as a former Playboy pin-up girl and third wife of local late night horror show host Count Film-Ula. :: Until popular opinion forced the change in 1944, Mean Harbor had been originally known as ‘Himmler Bay.’ (It was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Traffic Scofflaws Forced To Run Marathon</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/09/08/traffic-scofflaws-forced-to-run-marathon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:58:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The City Desk</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Craig Gaines]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A judge has ended an experimental, controversial program to promote fitness among parking violators — but not before a determined Wilders administration compelled the city’s most chronic scofflaws to compete in what may be the grimmest marathon anywhere. The past few days have seen frantic races to the finish, figurative and literal, as city attorneys stalled a lawsuit to halt the Tickets to Health initiative long enough to hold the first and only Triple Offenders Marathon. The lawyers got what they wanted, successfully delaying Judge Horace Table’s ruling until Monday morning — mere hours after the marathon’s finish. Table ruled the Tickets to Health program was “in violation of the City Charter, in violation of the Constitution and in violation of any standard of human decency.” A year and a half ago, local gymnasium magnate Carolanne Tapscott approached Mayor Wilders with an idea intended to decrease widespread anger at the city’s aggressive parking enforcement and increase physical activity among residents. After a series of private discussions and one poorly attended public hearing, the city unveiled Tickets to Health to a confused, sedentary population. The program worked like this: a resident’s first parking ticket would result in a mandatory 25-minute walk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Who Will Protect Gotham Now?</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/08/21/the-blotter-who-will-protect-gotham-now/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 13:19:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 7:29 AM 700 block of Westmont Street: 26-year old man found sleeping in backyard hot tub of ex-girlfriend. 10:41 AM 1300 block of Farmer Avenue: Vandals have swapped prices on lot models at Uvalde’s Used Autos. Police are unable to locate perpetrators, but successfully quell a public disturbance when a number of customers all insist on purchasing a 2005 Lexus sedan that has been marked at a price of $29.99. 10:58 AM 1600 block of Villers Street: Assault and battery reported at Lula’s Hair-Did beauty salon. A 28-year-old female is taken into custody and charged with attacking another customer with her artificial fingernails. 11:14 AM 1400 block of Eudora Way: Police, acting on tips from an informant who has been working with them for over eight months, break up a gambling ring operating out of the basement of a residential home. Eleven people are charged with illegal betting, RICO violations, and animal cruelty for operating the city’s largest kitten racing racket to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Potato Guns Are Surprisingly Illegal</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/31/the-blotter-potato-guns-are-surprisingly-illegal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 11:35:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. (Note: More violent, standard items do not frequently show up here, as they are covered in the local papers with regularity.) 7:23 am 3700 block of Pennsylvania Avenue: A group of students are arrested after carrying Davidson High School principal Stephanie Allen&#8217;s 2007 Mini Cooper into the school&#8217;s second-floor cafeteria. The students, who are all underage, are charged with grand theft auto, operating a motor vehicle without a license, disorderly conduct, local and state hazardous-materials infractions, vandalism, property destruction and a parking violation. 9:02 am 1700 block of Marway Lane: Tandem bicycle reported stolen. 9:27 pm 2000 block of Dunn Avenue: Gupta’s Stop ‘n’ Pop calls in a shoplifting incident. When police arrive, suspect claims that Gupta offers free in-store refills on fountain drinks. Mr. Gupta explains that the policy was never meant to be offered in perpetuity, and the suspect, who has been continually refilling his 44-oz. Mountain Dew since 1:30 PM the previous day, is violating the spirit of the contract. No charges are filed, but suspect is politely asked to leave. 12:52 pm 2100 block of Villers Street: A 22-year-old [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Stooges Convention Turns Surprisingly Violent</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/07/07/three-stooges-convention-turns-surprisingly-violent/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2008 14:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A gathering of slapstick aficionados turned violent Saturday, requiring dozens of city police bearing shields and batons to quell the riot. It was the first conflict in the 13-year history of the Three Stooges Enthusiasts and Impersonators Annual Convention, held every year at the Westport Heights Sheraton &#38; Conference Center. The yearly event is part reunion, part workshop for the small but intense group of people from across the country who &#8220;want to live the Stooge way the right way,&#8221; as the convention&#8217;s mission statement says. &#8220;This is the worst thing to happen since the 2005 protests,&#8221; said convention founder Howard Dewey, referring to a handful disruptive picketers that year, angry over the exclusion of devotees to Stooge replacements Shemp and Curly Joe. The fracas broke out during a class on how to successfully block an attempted double eye poke. Instructor Bob Silver demonstrated the proper technique — it entails holding your hand at a perfect 90 degree angle from your face — and then paired off participants to practice the move. A fight started between attendee Lewis Oster, a member of the Moe group, and Curly group member Morris Heinz, who claimed later that Oster poked too hard and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Monster party, pets in trouble, misc.</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/27/the-blotter-monster-party-pets-in-trouble-misc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2008 13:25:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. 9:17 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: A 7-year-old girl reports to 911 that &#8220;monsters are knocking at my door.&#8221; Dispatch sends a cruiser to reassure the girl, only to find people dressed as Frankenstein and the Werewolf knocking on her door. Police interviews reveal a wrong address on a &#8220;Halloween-In-Summer party&#8221; Evite is to blame. The partiers leave and police calm the girl down. 9:26 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: The girl calls back, reporting more monsters. Police are sent back out to the house, and direct Freddie Kruger, 24, and Jason Voorhies, 25, to the right address, and again calm the girl. 9:45 pm 300 block of Pacific Lane: Baby with gun. 9:37 pm 200 block of Euclid Avenue: The girl calls again. A City Desk review of the 911 tape reveals the girl is hyperventilating while describing &#8220;a man with fangs and a black cape&#8221; at her front door. Police return, direct Dracula to the right address, post an officer in front of the house for the rest of the night, and take the girl into protective custody. According [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blotter: Mischief, Various</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/12/the-blotter-mischief-various/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 11:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a public service, The City Desk periodically offers up selected items culled from local police reports. 12:08 am Harding Park, Officers disperse a group of people loitering in the park after hours. 1:01 am 3400 block of Spring Street: A woman reports excessive noise in adjoining house. The responding officers could hear nothing. 2:17 am 300 block of Bay Street: City EMS reports a break in and vandalism to an ambulance parked at LeFleur&#8217;s Donuts while the paramedics were taking a lunch break. 2:42 am 3400 block of Spring Street: A woman reports excessive noise in adjoining house. The responding officers could hear nothing. 3:01 am 4700 block of McKinley Avenue: Officers respond to silent alarm at a Kwick Stop Market finding clerk unconscious behind counter. 3:12 am 3400 block of Spring Street: A woman reports excessive noise in adjoining house. The responding officers could hear nothing. 3:47 am 2700 block of Huron Street: Officers respond to a 911 call of a cow in the roadway. 4:37 am 3400 block of Spring Street: Officers respond to a complaint of excess noise. Beverly Fouineur, 86, arrested for wasting police time. 5:14 am 21000 block of State Road: Gerald Crass, 18, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suburban Towns Overwhelmingly Vote For County Police Force</title>
		<link>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/02/suburban-towns-overwhelmingly-vote-for-county-police-force/</link>
		<comments>http://thecitydesk.net/2008/06/02/suburban-towns-overwhelmingly-vote-for-county-police-force/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:24:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When Governor VanNorden was elected two years ago, she promised reform and creative ways of saving taxpayers money. In a binding ballot referendum special election held throughout the state voters overwhelmingly approved the creation of county police forces to replace those of villages, hamlets, towns, townships and other municipalities. The measure was only rejected in the communities of Summit Heights and Hamilton Township, both of which will retain their own forces. Summit Heights mayor Samuel Tyler told channel 8, “We have one of the best-trained and highest-paid forces in the country. Our citizens feel protected and felt that the plan would reduce the highest citizen to officer ratio in the country. We will cooperate with the new county police. If at some time in the future our citizens want our force to merge we will merge. We hope that this is not a step towards annexation by the city.” Hamilton Township mayor Rex Hamilton was out of the country and unavailable for comment. In effect, the small departments will be merged, creating one large department and the county sheriff’s department will also be folded in throughout the state. The county Parks Commission Police and County Highway Patrol will also be [...]]]></description>
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