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  Following Jean Killing, Dallas Chief Outlines Department Reforms

  September 25 at 4 a.m.

  Dallas Police Chief U. Renee Hall intends to significantly change Dallas Police Department procedures for police shootings and supports strengthening Dallas' citizens review board, she said Monday. Hall's new proposals, once effective, will require Dallas police involved in shootings to give a statement immediately. Under current DPD policy, officers are...

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  DPD Fires Amber Guyger, Officer Who Killed Botham Jean

  September 24 at 1:06 p.m.

  Amber Guyger, the Dallas Police Department officer who shot and killed Botham Jean in Jean's apartment a little over two weeks ago, has been fired. "Effective immediately, Amber Guyger is no longer with the Dallas Police Department. That decision and hearing was held this morning, at approximately 10 a.m.," Hall...

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  Cite-and-Release Started Last Year but Imposed Bonds Haven't Changed

  September 21 at 4:30 a.m.

  Last year, Dallas County District Attorney Faith Johnson promised that anyone caught with less than 4 ounces of marijuana would no longer be arrested on the spot, spend a night in jail and a pay an expensive bond to get out. But so far, not much has changed. In 2017,...

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  Dallas Police Chief Explains Why Botham Jean's Killer Hasn't Been Fired

  September 21 at 4 a.m.

  Amber Guyger is still getting paid by the Dallas Police Department because going through the process necessary to fire her could compromise the criminal investigation of her shooting and killing Botham Jean in his own apartment on Sept. 6, DPD Chief U. Renee Hall said Thursday. After Jean's death —...

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  Lyndo Jones Shooting Video Released as Mesquite Cop's Trial Begins

  September 19 at 4 a.m.

  There are inescapable similarities between the shooting for which former Mesquite cop Derick Wiley went on trial Tuesday and the one by Dallas Police Department Officer Amber Guyger, who shot and killed Botham Jean in Jean's apartment, believing it was her own, on Sept. 6. Like Guyger, Wiley made a...

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  Dallas Cops Get Their Raises in New Budget, to Rawlings', Kleinman's Chagrin

  September 19 at 4 a.m.

  When the dust settled Tuesday, just two hardliners remained at the Dallas City Council horseshoe, willing to resist pressure from their colleagues and Dallas' undermanned police force and vote against a pay raise for all of the city's police officers and firefighters. Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings and North Dallas City...