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Statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors on Mayors’ Escalating Safety and Security Needs

Washington, DC–Below is a statement by U.S. Conference of Mayors CEO and Executive Director Tom Cochran on mayors’ escalating safety and security needs: “Mayors serve closest to the people, and that visibility makes them among the most accessible — and, unfortunately, the most exposed — public officials in America. As politically motivated violence has escalated,

At Site of Oklahoma City Bombing, Bipartisan Mayors Sign Declaration Against Political Violence

“Oklahoma City Declaration” is signed by dozens of mayors at site of deadliest domestic terror attack in U.S. history, reaffirms commitment to American values of pluralism, compromise, truth and civility OKLAHOMA CITY — In a powerful show of political unity and stewardship, more than 40 Republican, Democratic and Independent U.S. mayors signed a