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$13.5M invested to hire police officers in Ohio

By Katelyn Amato,

8 hours ago

YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (WKBN) – Senator Sherrod Brown Tuesday announced more than $13.5 million will be invested in Ohio to help hire and retain police officers

The money comes from the Department of Justice’s COPS Hiring Program in which 13 communities will receive a portion of the funds.

Locally, the city of Youngstown will receive $1.6 million to hire 15 officers.

Austintown Township Police will receive $750,000 to help hire 6 officers.

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Danny Smith

7h ago

what's really sad is the last election that passed the marijuana Levy also passed the school levy I think they got 300 million or 30 million that's why the marijuana Levy s*** in the past that's why it was so close not to pass but it passed and the school got a bunch of money they didn't buy No Buses but a lot of the buses already bad they should have bought three times as many buses they don't care or educational system is going in the opposite direction our kids ain't in school they're in the streets

Guest

7h ago

I’ve never seen such ridiculous spending in this city. I called to file a police report to last week around 6:15pm to on a weekday to report I was grabbed and physically assaulted by a convenience store employee they said it’s going to be a couple of hours so I gave dispatch my home address to make report. At midnight I called dispatch again to ltk nobody responded they acted like I was bothering them and was told probably another couple of hours. I told her to cancel I will be down the next day in person. It’s absolutely ridiculous to have to wait for over 6 1/2 hours and still a no show.

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