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  • Insight: Battle over police pensions in U.S. cities takes ugly turn

    01/18/2014 4:19:44 PM PST · by Anton.Rutter · 36 replies
    Yahoo News ^ | Jan. 16, 2014 | Tim Reid
    A drive by some American cities to cut costly police retirement benefits has led to an extraordinary face-off between local politicians and the law enforcement officers who work for them. In Costa Mesa, California, lawmaker Jim Righeimer says he was a target of intimidation because he sought to curb police pensions. In a lawsuit in November, Righeimer accused the Costa Mesa police union and a law firm that once represented them, of forcing him to undergo a sobriety test (he passed) after driving home from a bar in August 2012. That followed a call to 911 by private detective Chris...