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Springfield's Top Cop Fights for Her Job

WAMC Northeast Public Radio
Published May 17, 2005 at 1:48 PM EDT

By Eesha Williams

Springfield, MA –
In Springfield, Massachusetts the city council last night came to the defense of Paula Meara, the embattled police chief. A state-funded report recently called Meara's 500 employee department dysfunctional. Then a top city official called on her to resign. WAMC's Pioneer Valley Bureau Chief Eesha Williams reports.
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