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“Can we just get back to normal?”Grand Rapids mayor Rosalynn Bliss posed the question Tuesday afternoon during a very abnormal state of the city address.…
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People protested in Grand Rapids Friday, two days after Kentucky officials announced no murder charges for police officers who shot and killed Breonna…
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Grand Rapids has seen more homicides so far this year than it did in all of 2019. That’s prompted the Grand Rapids Police Department to propose a gun…
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City leaders in Grand Rapids say they’re not yet ready to talk about ways to defund the police department.Instead, the focus is on a new strategic plan…
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The Grand Rapids Police Department has released a draft of a new strategic plan after many in the community called for defunding the department.The plan…
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After hearing more than four hours worth of comments from the public and debating amongst themselves past midnight, Grand Rapids city commissioners did…
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Grand Rapids police officer unions are pushing back on calls to defund the department.Three city commissioners in Grand Rapids have already said they…
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The death of George Floyd in Minneapolis prompted large protests in Grand Rapids. But Grand Rapids has its own history of troubling interactions between…
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The killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer set off massive protests across the U.S. At many of those protests, there was a familiar…
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At least three commissioners in Grand Rapids signaled support for cutting the police department budget during a meeting on Tuesday morning. But because of…