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stated on September 22, 2015 a speech:

Every general City of Milwaukee employee "pays toward his or her pension, but approximately 88 percent of our police officers and firefighters do not."

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By Tom Kertscher • September 30, 2015

Reader
stated on September 3, 2015 an email from a reader:

Atlanta has issued an increasing number of citations - and collected an increasing amount of revenue - since Mayor Kasim Reed took office in 2010.

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By April Hunt • September 11, 2015

Coast Guard
stated on July 20, 2015 news release:

"Every year the First Coast Guard District saves 350 lives in the Northeast."

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By Mark Reynolds • August 2, 2015

Police Chief Billy Grogan
stated on July 14, 2015 press release:

Georgia has more than 700 law enforcement agencies, and fewer than 20 percent of them are state-certified.

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By Nancy Badertscher • July 21, 2015

Dino Baccari
stated on April 16, 2015 testimony before the Senate Committee on Health & Human Services.:

A Penn State University study found that "electronic cigarettes . . . are far less addictive than cigarettes."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • May 3, 2015

Lee May
stated on January 22, 2015 the 2015 State of the County address:

DeKalb County has graduated five police academies and three fire academies to help reach its ambitious hiring goals in both departments.

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By April Hunt • February 9, 2015

Nationwide
stated on February 1, 2015 an ad during the Super Bowl:

"The No. 1 cause of childhood deaths is preventable accidents."

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By Steve Contorno • February 2, 2015

L.C. "Buster" Evans
stated on November 12, 2014 in a press release:

"It has been many years, if ever, since an inmate has completed his or her high school diploma while incarcerated in a state correctional facility for adults."

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By Nancy Badertscher • December 16, 2014

Jorge Elorza
stated on September 30, 2014 a debate:

"In the last six years of Cianci’s administration violent crime was down in the United States. It was down in the region. It was down in Rhode Island. But it was up in Providence."

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By Alex Kuffner • October 6, 2014

Pam Bondi
stated on September 8, 2014 a campaign commercial:

Of the 98 top oxycodone-dispensing doctors who used to live in Florida, "today, there are none."

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By Joshua Gillin • September 16, 2014

Edward Flynn
stated on August 20, 2014 an interview:

In 2012, there were nearly 12.2 million arrests and only 410 "uses of deadly force" by police in the United States.

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By Tom Kertscher • August 29, 2014

American LeadHERship PAC
stated on August 27, 2014 a campaign mailing:

"There have been at least 100 shootings each year [Angel Taveras] has been mayor" of Providence.

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • August 29, 2014

Andrea Mitchell
stated on August 17, 2014 an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press":

In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."

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By Katie Sanders • August 17, 2014

Linda Finn
stated on March 18, 2014 a speech during a rally at the Rhode Island state house:

"By a two-to-one margin, Rhode Islanders want to ban assault weapons and we have a very small percentage of gun owners in this state, less than 13 percent."

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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • April 6, 2014

Todd Staples
stated on January 27, 2014 the Texas Debate hosted by KERA-TV, Channel 13, in Dallas:

David Dewhurst is "the first lieutenant governor in history to have a personal security detail."

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By W. Gardner Selby • January 31, 2014

Amalgamated Transit Union
stated on June 13, 2013 a newspaper ad:

Says TriMet spends "$10.3 million in police contracts" a year for 56 transit police who must respond to non-transit calls

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By Janie Har • June 22, 2013

Peter Nightingale
stated on May 8, 2013 a web commentary:

"The UK has an unarmed police force and a firearm fatality rate that is 40 times lower per capita than in the U.S."

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By Michael McKinney • May 31, 2013

Tavern League of Wisconsin
stated on May 14, 2013 an interview:

A 0.05 standard for drunken driving means having a glass of wine at dinner could make a person drunk.

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By Tom Kertscher • May 17, 2013

Jeb Bush
stated on March 15, 2013 a speech at CPAC:

"Already, a prototype driverless car has traveled more than 300,000 miles in the crowded maze of California streets without a single accident."

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By Amy Sherman • March 25, 2013

Stephen King
stated on January 25, 2013 a Kindle Single essay, 'Guns':

Says since Australia passed tough gun laws, "homicides by firearm have declined almost 60 percent."

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By Becky Bowers • January 31, 2013

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