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The union for the Arcadia Police Department and the Arcadia City Council have reached an agreement. The contract gives officers a 24.4% increase in salaries and benefits over the next 4 years. The department is still down by 14 officers.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30898
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 17, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Labor contracts
Unions
Item ID
31086AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The City Council signed an agreement with the Arcadia police officers that will cost $1.66 million over the next 4 years. Contract details are given.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30946
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2008
Pages
p. Local 2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2008
Pages
p. Local 2
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Labor contracts
Labor unions
Item ID
31141AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police officers, friends and families protest for higher pay and more officers at Santa Anita Avenue and Foothill Boulevard.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30816
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 30, 2007
Pages
p. News 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Labor contracts
Labor disputes
Protests
Item ID
31004AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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City administrators and negotiators for the Arcadia Police Department have not yet reached a contract agreement. Officers want an immediate 10% raise for the first year and 4% increases the second and third years. City council has offered salaries that would make Arcadia police the second or third highest paid in cities surveyed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30852
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
December 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department
Arcadia Police Officers Association Union
Labor contracts
Salaries
Item ID
31040AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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The Board of Education of the Arcadia Unified School District has approved a one year contract with the teachers union that includes a 5 percent pay raise.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30888
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 12, 2008
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia Unified School District
Labor contracts
Teachers union
Item ID
31076AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Safeway Inc.'s profit slid 4% in the second quarter as the nation's number 3 supermarket chain continued to battle lingering effects from last winter's polarizing labor strikes.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28858
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 28, 2004
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Business and Industry
Supermarkets
Strikes --Labor disputes
Safeway Inc. --Vons/Pavilions
Financial profits
Item ID
29049AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Last winter's 4 1/2 month strike had a devastating impact on Safeway Inc., parent company of Vons/Pavilion headquartered in Arcadia. First quarter profits fell 73.5 % to $43.1 million from $162.6 million during the same quarter for the prior year.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper28710
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 23, 2004
Pages
p. B3
Subjects
Business & Industry - Safeway Inc. -- Vons/Pavilion -- profits
United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW)
Supermarkets & grocery stores
Labor union disputes -- strikes
Item ID
28897AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia Police officer Michael Hale gives a new Nintendo DS to 6-year-old daughter of crime victim Teresa Barrera. The Arcadia Police Officers' Association (APOA) also gave Teresa Barrera a $250 gift certificate to Ralphs Supermarket.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31246
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2008
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 3, 2008
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Arcadia Police Officers' Association (APOA)
Barrera, Teresa
Crime and Criminals
Hale, Michael
Identity theft
Item ID
31441AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police and firefighters have voted to defer a portion of their salaries and health benefits to help close the city's budget shortfall. In total, employee pay and benefit deferments will free up about $300,000. The city is trying to close a $600,000 deficit this fiscal year in its $48 million general fund budget.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31509
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 11, 2009
Pages
p. A1, A12
Subjects
Arcadia city budget
Arcadia city employees
Unions
Item ID
31705AN
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Newspaper Index
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A suspended Arcadia police lieutenant, Kenneth Kuwahara, 40, was in court on felony charges of using another officer's name to solicit prostitutes via the Internet while on duty.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29878
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2006
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
January 20, 2006
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Kuwahara, Kenneth
Arcadia Police Department - officers
Item ID
30064AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council unanimously voted to draft language that could potentially be inserted into future contracts that preserves the city's right to ask contractors for documentation of their employees at any point. The move could be considered a token gesture, since the city already requires contractors to generally comply with all state and federal laws, including the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31189
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2008
Pages
p. A1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 4, 2008
Pages
p. A1
Subjects
Contract workers
Contracts
Illegal immigrants
Immigration
Item ID
31384AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police officers honor Albert Matthies, the city's only police officer killed in the line of duty, with a ceremony and a plaque, 80 years after his death. The plaque is on the 1000 block of North View Avenue.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30633
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 20, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Arcadia police officers
Awards - honors - recognitions
Matthies, Albert Edward
Plaques
Remembrances
Item ID
30821AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Arcadia police officers moved into new police headquarters on Monday. A photo shows Detective Steve Phan hooking up his computer.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper25957
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
Aug.12, 2003
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
Aug.12, 2003
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Police Station
Item ID
26158AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Infighting at city council meetings over the Habitat for Humanity issue that was voted down is described.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29936
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 24, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
City council - disputes
Segal, Mickey
Marshall, Gail
Brown Act violations
Item ID
30122AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Pasadena police officers and mental health professionals gathered at the 7th Annual Law Enforcement and Mental Health Conference at the Los Angeles County Arboretum. Suicide, particularly among children and teenagers, was a hot topic.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30081
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 16, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Law Enforcement and Mental Health Conference - 7th annual
Mental health
Police officers
Item ID
30267AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Twenty-three year old Arcadia police officer Joe Cortez is lauded for saving the life of a 14-month-old toddler.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30269
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2006
Pages
p. Local News 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2006
Pages
p. Local News 1
Subjects
Cortez, Joe
Heroes
Police officers
Item ID
30456AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Omar Francisco Garcia, 24, of Arcadia, was fatally shot by two West Covina police officers on November 17, after he allegedly attacked officers with their own baton. He has a history of fighting with police.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31305
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2008
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 26, 2008
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Garcia, Omar Francisco
Shootings
West Covina Police
Item ID
31500AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Officer Troy Hernandez, now with Arcadia Police Department, formerly of South Gate Police Department, along with three other South Gate Police officers, is taking a racial discrimination and retaliation case against the City of South Gate to trial.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30385
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 1, 2007
Pages
p. Local 1
Subjects
Discrimination
Hernandez, Troy
Lawsuits
Police
Trials
Item ID
30572AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Brian Simpson was arrested by Arcadia Police Department after allegedly trying to defraud the Foothill Federal Credit Union of $59,000 through a fictitious car loan. It was a sting operation by the Arcadia Police Department.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper30074
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 13, 2006
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Simpson, Brian
Arrests
Crime and Criminals
Foothill Federal Credit Union
Grand theft
Item ID
30260AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Officer Jose Ponce was sworn in to the Arcadia Police Department on Tuesday, but the department is still short-staffed by fourteen officers. The department is authorized to employ seventy-five swon officers. The shortage has caused cuts to programs. Other San Gabriel Valley police agencies are suffering from lack of qualified applicants.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper29955
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2006
Pages
p. A1, A6
Subjects
Arcadia Police Department - employees - recruiting
Ponce, Jose
Personnel
Item ID
30141AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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