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Police officer seeks to mend community relationship with law enforcement
NBC News: July 2, 2022
Chief investigative correspondent Jim Axelrod spoke with former police chief, Renee Hall, on her goals of mending the relationship between communities and law enforcement to improve the success rate for police investigating murders throughout the US. This was a segment of the CBS News’ investigative series “Crime Without Punishment,” which examined the increase in unsolved homicides across America…
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Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall on Her Dual Identity: ‘I Am Black and I’m Blue’
NBC Miami: June 12, 2020
Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall was at the front of the line as protesters and officers clashed during protests in her city over the death of George Floyd. As a Black woman, Hall said she can identify with both sides in the debate over police reform…
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U. Renee Hall named new Dallas Police Chief
City of Dallas News: July 19, 2017
City Manager T.C. Broadnax today announced that U. Renee Hall will become the first female police chief in the City’s history. Hall is Deputy Chief of the Detroit Police Department where she directed the city’s Neighborhood Policing Bureau…
Detroit Police Deputy Chief fighting for justice decades after father’s murder
ABC WXYZ-Detroit: November 1, 2016
Forty-five years ago, Detroit Officer Ulysses Brown was murdered in the line of duty. Today, his daughter is working to make the city a safer place. Detroit Deputy Chief Ulysha Renee Hall was only six months old when her father was gunned down while working a special unit, according to WXYZ..
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Dallas Chief Reneé Hall resigns citing undisclosed opportunity
Dallas City News: September 8, 2020
Dallas Police Chief Reneé Hall announced Tuesday her resignation as Chief of Police in the City of Dallas. Hall initially informed City Manager T.C. Broadnax she would serve through November 10. The manager, however, asked Hall to remain and continue leading the Dallas Police Department through the end of the year, and she has agreed to stay…
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Dallas Police Chief ‘Offended and Exhausted’ By Mayor’s Comments
NBC5 DFW: November 20, 2020
In an exclusive interview with NBC 5 Investigates, Dallas Police Chief Renee Hall said she is offended by the treatment she has received from Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and that she believes the mayor’s recent attacks on her leadership have become personal. Speaking to NBC 5 Senior Investigative Reporter Scott Friedman, Hall fired back at comments…
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We Stand on Their Shoulders: The Meaning and Mission of Today’s Chiefs of Color
News-Talk WAOK 1380: September 18, 2020
On September 10, 2020, a Wall Street Journal editorial headlined “Black Cops Don’t Matter” announced: “Democrats are driving African-American police chiefs out of their jobs.” It was a cheap political shot, beneath the dignity of a major newspaper, exploiting the high-profile resignations of black chiefs in Dallas, Rochester (New York), and Seattle in the wake of George Floyd’s death in Minneapolis on May 25. Clearly, the WSJ editorial board was not interested in genuine substance. They did not care that Dallas Chief Reneé Hall was the first Black woman to lead that city’s police force, that her father was a Detroit police officer murdered when she was six months old, that she served in the Detroit Police Department, earning promotion to deputy chief in 2014 and then moving to Dallas, as chief, three years later. They did not note that she championed the reform precepts of President Obama’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing and that, on her watch crime and violent came both came down nearly 6 percent…
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