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'Russ Racop'

LR City Board candidate presses tax question on police car use

Russ Racop, the blogger who's running for City Board of Directors, has added a new question to those he's been peppering the city with about the police department. Is free car use reported as a taxable benefit for officers who enjoy it.
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Little Rock alters cop recruit bonus to require payback for those who quit

City Manager Bruce Moore has altered a $5,000 new recruit bonus for police officers that drew criticism when two recruits quit the force after drawing the bonus and working for only a few months.
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Group seeks city directors' email

A new group with a familiar spokesman complains that some Little Rock city officials have been violating the Freedom of Information Act. Specifically, it contends some city directors have been deleting emails so they wouldn't be uncovered by Freedom of Information Act complaints.

The Little Rock Police Department: The chief isn't the only problem

Little Rock Police Chief Kenton Buckner, the Fraternal Order of Police, race relations. Little Rock, we have a problem.
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Black police officers complain about racial Facebook post by police recruit

The LRPD has acknowledged a complaint by the Black Little Rock Police Officers Association about a racially  ringed Facebook post by a man believed to be a member of the police recruit class.

Group plans blast of Little Rock policing

A new group with some familiar faces, Citizens for Credibility and Trust in Little Rock Leadership, plans a news conference at 9;30 a.m. Friday outside City Hall to talk about unhappiness with city and police leadership.
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More details emerge in incident between community activist and LRPD

Little Rock Police Department's interaction with community activist Benny Johnson — in which officers mistook his cellphone for a gun, searched his apartment and pointed multiple guns at him — is worse than described in the police report, according to videos created by blogger Russ Racop recounting the incident.

City attorney makes it official: LR incumbents are protected on campaign carryover

Blogger Russ Racop has received a formal rejection from Little Rock City Attorney Tom Carpenter of his complaint that Mayor Mark Stodola is in "flagrant" violation of a city ordinance by keeping $78,000 in carryover money from his last uncontested election campaign for use in the 2018 election.
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Blogger Russ Racop announces for Little Rock City Board

An obsessive blogger with a record of digging up dirt on public officials has announced a race for Little Rock City Board. His own record should come under scrutiny, too, but that doesn't mean he isn't often onto something.

Ozone therapy revisited: You read it from Russ Racop and here first

The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette caught up this morning on a state surplus spending scandal that blogger Russ Racop reported nine months ago and which was detailed on the Arkansas Blog, along with other General Improvement Fund funny business.
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City identifies recipients of cop incentive payments who left force

Blogger Russ Racop shares the fruits of his Freedom of Information Act request to determine who received $5,000 recruiting incentives to join the Little Rock Police Department and then left the force.

It's official: No tickets for cops in city cars

The city of Little Rock has responded to blogger Russ Racop's questions about the fact that police officers, including Chief Kenton Buckner, had not received tickets in recent traffic incidents.
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