From the West Alabama Newsroom– The city of Demopolis is offering a cash incentive to lure qualified public safety personnel — to join the city’s police and fire departments. Mayor Woody Collins says the new incentive program is designed to attract certified police officers and fire fighters to the River City. “Anybody who is already qualified as a policeman or…
An Alabama police chief says two of his officers were lured and ambushed by “cowards,” and that it’s not the first time it’s happened. Selma Police Chief Spencer Collier tells AL.com that up to eight shots were fired at two police investigators called Monday night to a public housing complex. The officers were not injured, but Collier says a patrol…
The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill that would require police to collect data on traffic stops to prevent racial profiling. The bill by state Sen. Rodger Smitherman, a Democrat from Birmingham, would require officers to record the race of a person pulled over in a traffic stop. Police would submit data annually to the state attorney general’s office. Smitherman,…
