The accumulated 387 million manufactured in the last century means there are currently more firearms in America than people.
Joseph Lumpkin
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City Manager’s retirement and Club Rain closure highlight first Council meeting of 2016
The generous deal for Cutter – the search will likely take at least a year, followed by another year for her as adviser at full salary, followed by her full retirement pension – meant a contentious and racially polarized vote to terminate her will be avoided.
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Editor’s Note: Smooth as a baby’s…..?
While the baby coffin protest dominated the aftermath of Mayor Jackson’s speech, it wasn’t the only political prop used that night.
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Editor’s Note: The Rumble That Roared
LAST FRIDAY was an unusual day in downtown Savannah. The same day TV cameras surrounded former police Chief Willie Lovett as he was sentenced to prison on federal charges, new […]
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Editor’s Note: Chief Lumpkin & ‘information flow’
With significantly more detail than recent administrations have divulged, Lumpkin illustrated the real-world problems of policing in a community where ‘information’s not flowing.’
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The Year in Review: News
1: FULL METAL JACKET Gun violence has been a part of Savannah life and lore for decades. But never before has there been such a high volume of shootings over […]
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31 felons, 20 guns off the streets in police op
One of the initiatives by the Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Department to address recent crime created 35 arrests and recovered nine weapons this weekend. The Violent Crime Task Force conducted 15 […]
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Editor’s Note: Follow the money on Council pay hike
The move to hire Lumpkin came concurrently with City Council voting itself a sizable annual pay raise.