Articles About Yellow Springs Police Department :: Page 8

• Village Council — YSPD promotions, Taser use

  By Diane ChiddisterJanuary 11, 2018

  

  At Village Council’s Jan. 2 meeting, Council members addressed administrative tasks and two police-related issues, among other topics.

• Village Council— Blacks get more citations

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 28, 2017

  

  African-American villagers received citations from the YSPD at a significantly higher rate than to white villagers, according to a statistical study of local police data sponsored by the Justice System Task Force.

• Village Council moves to create social work job within YSPD

  By Diane ChiddisterDecember 21, 2017

  

  At Village Council’s Dec. 4 meeting, Council members and the Yellow Springs Police Department moved closer to hiring a full-time community outreach specialist, a new position that leaders hope strengthens the department’s ability to address social-service related calls.

• Police data sparks debate

  By Diane ChiddisterNovember 16, 2017

  

  A spirited discussion took place at Village Council’s Nov. 6 meeting regarding whether a Justice System Task Force member acted appropriately or not this week when he posted on Facebook controversial police department statistics in the context of criticism of a fellow JSTF member who was running for Village Council.

• Restorative justice and Yellow Springs a good fit

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 26, 2017

  

  “Healing Harms in Today’s Troubled World,” the first Annual Community and Restorative Justice Symposium, will be held in the village, from Oct. 27 to 29.

• JSTF reports to Council — Police changes in process

  By Diane ChiddisterOctober 12, 2017

  

  Since its inception about a year ago, the Justice System Task Force, or JSTF, has made several recommendations for changes at the Yellow Springs Police Department.

• Village Council— New policing guidelines discussed

  By Audrey HackettApril 27, 2017

  

  Local policing was in the spotlight at Village Council’s April 17 meeting. Council members discussed proposed new guidelines for Village policing, as well as next steps in the Village’s search for a permanent police chief. In addition, a new full-time police officer, Mariah England, was sworn into the local department.

• Communities rethink how to police

  By Diane Chiddister

  

  Three examples of communities rethinking policing may provide an opportunity for villagers to consider and discuss different options for how “people and police” can engage with each other.

• Watch out for scam calls in Yellow Springs

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 19, 2017

  

  Yellow Springs residents are being targeted by scam calls from people claiming to raise money for local police-oriented causes. However, the calls are bogus.

• An often fraught relationship is under scrutiny

  By Diane ChiddisterApril 13, 2017

  

  The relationship between local police and the village’s African-American community is one that has become increasingly fraught, especially as turnover in the local department has accelerated in recent years.