Methuen is a 23-square-mile city in Essex County,Massachusetts,United States. The population was 53,059 at the 2020 census. Methuen lies along the northwestern edge of Essex County,just east of Middlesex County and just south of Rockingham County,New Hampshire. The city is bordered by Haverhill to the northeast,North Andover to the southeast,Lawrence and Andover to the south,Dracut to the west,Pelham,New Hampshire to the northwest,and Salem,New Hampshire to the north. Methuen is located 17 miles (27 km) southwest from Newburyport,30 miles (48 km) north-northwest of Boston and 25 miles (40 km) south-southeast of Manchester,New Hampshire.
Francis Lazarro Rizzo was an American police officer and politician. He served as commissioner of the Philadelphia Police Department (PPD) from 1967 to 1971 and mayor of Philadelphia from 1972 to 1980. He was a member of the Democratic Party throughout the entirety of his career in public office. He switched to the Republican Party in 1986 and campaigned as a Republican for the final five years of his life.
The Seattle Police Department (SPD) is the principal law enforcement agency of the city of Seattle,Washington,United States. It is responsible for the whole city except for the campus of the University of Washington.
Eric Leroy Adams is an American politician and former police officer who currently serves as the 110th mayor of New York City since 2022. Adams was an officer in the New York City Transit Police and then the New York City Police Department (NYPD) for more than 20 years,retiring at the rank of captain. He served in the New York State Senate from 2006 to 2013,representing the 20th district in Brooklyn. In 2013,Adams was elected Brooklyn Borough President,the first African-American to hold the position,and re-elected in 2017.
The Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility was established in 1993 as the nation’s first publicly owned and privately operated adult secure correctional facility and is currently operated by the Central Falls Detention Facility Corporation. This special non-profit,quasi-public detention facility was developed for use by the United States Marshal Service (USMS) in the Northeast and was later extended to include the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) from 2005 to 2008 and again starting in 2019. Beginning in October 2011,the facility began serving the United States Navy,housing Navy personnel who have been placed in the custody of the General Court-Martial Convening Authority (GCMC). The facility operates at maximum security utilizing an architectural and high-tech design and construction containment system. A $47 million expansion was completed in December 2006 and increased the maximum occupancy from 300 all-male housing to its current capacity of 770 including a 40-bed unit for female detainees. It is the corporation's only facility.
The Methuen Police Department (MPD) has the primary responsibility for law enforcement and investigation within the city of Methuen,Massachusetts.
James Thurman Butts Jr. is an American politician,currently serving as the mayor of Inglewood,California. He rose through the ranks of law enforcement in Inglewood during the 1970s and 1980s,eventually becoming a Deputy Chief. He then worked as the Chief of Police in Santa Monica,California from 1991 to 2006. Butts then took a public safety position with Los Angeles World Airports in 2006. He was elected mayor of Inglewood in 2010 and re-elected in 2014 with an 84% vote. He led efforts to renovate and reopen The Forum and develop a plan for SoFi Stadium and Intuit Dome in Hollywood Park.
Andrea Joy Campbell is an American lawyer and politician who is serving as the attorney general of Massachusetts. Campbell is a former member of the Boston City Council. On the city council,she represented District 4,which includes parts of Boston's Dorchester,Mattapan,Jamaica Plain,and Roslindale neighborhoods. A member of the Democratic Party,she was first elected to the council in November 2015 and assumed office in January 2016. She served as president of the council from January 2018 until January 2020. Campbell unsuccessfully ran for mayor of Boston in 2021,placing third in the nonpartisan primary election behind Annissa Essaibi George and Michelle Wu,the latter of whom would go on to win the general election.
Roger MacLean is an American police officer and politician who was president of the Allentown,Pennsylvania City Council and served as acting Allentown mayor until March 29,2018. MacLean became the acting mayor on March 9,2018 following the resignation of Ed Pawlowski,who was convicted on March 1,2018 on 47 felony charges related to a pay-to-play scheme involving his asking for campaign donations in exchange for city contracts and favors.
Trinidad Navarro is an American politician who is the Delaware Insurance Commissioner and previously served as New Castle County Sheriff. He is a Democrat.
Brandon Maurice Scott is an American politician serving as the mayor of Baltimore,Maryland,since 2020. He was the president of the Baltimore City Council from 2019 to 2020,having been elected to the position to replace Jack Young following Catherine Pugh's resignation,as well as a member of the Baltimore City Council from the second district from 2011 to 2019. A member of the Democratic Party,Scott was a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Maryland during the 2018 Maryland gubernatorial election,in which he ran on a ticket with Jim Shea.
James M. Gardiner is a Chicago politician and firefighter who serves as the alderman for the 45th ward in the Chicago City Council. Elected to the Chicago City Council in 2019,Gardiner identified as a political independent;however,he would later switch to the Democratic Party and currently serves as the 45th Ward Democratic Committeeperson.
Brandon Whipple is an American politician and academic who formerly served as mayor of Wichita,Kansas. He previously served as a Democratic member of the Kansas House of Representatives representing the 96th district,which included part of south Wichita and was the Ranking Minority member on the Higher Education Budget committee.
John Valdivia is an American politician who served as the 34th mayor of San Bernardino,California. Valdivia was unsuccessful in his bid for re-election in the 2022 San Bernardino mayoral election. In 2021,Valdivia became the first elected official in 20 years to be censured by the San Bernardino City Council for alleged misuse of public funds.
Teressa Raiford is an American activist and politician in Portland,Oregon. She founded the local Black-led non-profit Don't Shoot Portland.
Adrian Z. Diaz is an American law enforcement officer who served as the chief of the Seattle Police Department from 2020 to 2024. Diaz had previously served as deputy chief of the department. Diaz assumed office in an acting capacity on September 2,2020,following the resignation of Carmen Best. On September 20,2022,Diaz was appointed to the permanent position.
The Surrey Police Service (SPS) is a municipal police force in the city of Surrey,British Columbia,Canada. It is one of several police departments within the Metro Vancouver Regional District,and as of December 2022,the second largest municipal police service in British Columbia. Prior to the SPS's establishment,Surrey was Canada's largest city without a municipal police service.
The Atlanta Eagle police raid was a police raid targeting the Atlanta Eagle,a gay bar in Atlanta,Georgia,United States. The raid occurred on September 10,2009,due to anonymous tips alleging that illegal drug use and sex was occurring at the bar. Several dozen officers were involved in the raid,including members of the Atlanta Police Department's vice squad and the "Red Dog Unit",a SWAT-like unit typically used in high drug use areas. None of the 62 bar patrons that night were arrested,although eight employees were. Seven of these employees were either found not guilty or had charges dropped against them,while one was not present at the trials and had a bench warrant issued against him.
Ricardo N. Arroyo is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Massachusetts. He was previously a member of the Boston City Council.
Sheng Thao is an American politician who is the 51st and current mayor of Oakland,California. She is the first Hmong American mayor of a major city in the United States. She was elected as mayor of Oakland in November 2022 and started her term in January 2023. On November 5,2024,Thao was recalled. She is the first mayor in Oakland’s history to be recalled.
