City has Cut 100 Police Officers; Overall Crime Rate Still Falling ; Union Upset with Addition of Administrator After $800k Concessions.

Dayton Daily News › November 18, 2010

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DAYTON -- Despite nearly $25 million in budget reductions that have erased more than 100 police officer positions since 2001, Dayton's crime rates continue to drop, according to police statistics.

Dayton's population decline probably is the largest factor in that decrease, but police Chief Richard Biehl will take the drop any way he can get it.

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City has Cut 100 Police Officers; Overall Crime Rate Still Falling ; Union Upset with Addition of Administrator After $800k Concessions.

Since his arrival in 2008, Biehl has stripped his operating budget of nearly $10 million and lost dozens of officers through...

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