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Apr. 19—Outgoing Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke attributes a drop in the city's gang violence under his tenure to the Violence Reduction Initiative, his flagship program, rolled out in March 2014 ...
Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke called the shootings "a nightmare for the City of Chattanooga." [ 78 ] Battery Commander Major Michael Abrams, speaking at the memorial service, expressed that he was "deeply proud" of how the marines and sailors responded to the shootings, saying, "In the chaos of that moment, they were selfless in their efforts to ...
Sep. 27—Chattanooga had a mass shooting Saturday night. Two women were killed and five other females — the youngest was 14 — were wounded. It was the city's third shooting just that day ...
During Berke's first term, Chattanooga's unemployment rate fell from a June 2011 high of 9.5% to 4.1% in May 2016, a nine-year low, and the city created over 8,000 new jobs. [10] On July 14, 2014, Berke joined other local and state officials to announce that the Volkswagen Crossblue would be manufactured in Chattanooga, resulting in over 2,000 ...
Jan. 15—As the number of homicides in Chattanooga remained largely unchanged between 2019 and 2021, the number of non-fatal shootings increased more than 57%, from 80 in 2019 to 126 in 2021. "We ...
Mayor Andy Berke formed a new Office of Community Resilience. The OCR took $150,000 from the police budget to fund social work, recidivism reduction programs, job training for felons and youth mentorship programs. [18] [19] Cameron Williams, of I Can't Breathe Chattanooga, called it a "baby step in the right direction". [20]
Roddy was nominated as chief of the CPD by mayor Andy Berke and confirmed by the Chattanooga City Council on August 22, 2017. [5] In his first year as chief, Roddy grew the department and built on existing policies and practices. In an effort to boost morale, Roddy changed the department's beard policy. [6]
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