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Interview With City Folk. A regular Interview Feature With Various City Leaders.
Chief Mike Butler has been a resident of Longmont for 40 years and, in this far-ranging interview with Scott Converse, the publisher of the Longmont Observer, goes over how he came to Longmont, what he loves about our town and the many aspects of the City's police department and fire departments.
Subjects discussed include Public Safety as an organization, Police Reform and Community Policing, Procedural/Restorative Justice, Police Unions, Accountability, Dealing with Bias, the Militarization of Police and how the department will use the millions of additional dollars made available to it from a recently approved tax approved by the citizen of Longmont in the last election.
