Controversial Iowa City Police Recruitment Video Yanked: Iowa City Daily News Links, April 1

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The Iowa City Police have removed a police recruitment video after community concerns that it was too aggressive and displayed Iowa City i n a negative light. It will now be replaced with a kindler and gentler community based policing video. (KCRG)

Lee Hermiston of the Press-Citizen writes that progress is being made towards curbing dangerous drinking behaviors in Iowa City.

Crme levels in areas around Iowa City have also decreased recently writes Hermiston. 

Mission Creek is swollen, nay engorged, with talent this year. (Des Moines Register)

Could the standoff over Terry Branstad's nominees for Board of Regents bleed over to other important issues with the Iowa Senate? Stay tuned. (Press-Citizen via Associated Press)

Luke Voelz of the Press-Citizen has a story on an encaustic printing workshop by the Paper Nest in Iowa City. (Press-Citizen)

Voelz also writes that after a weak 2011 the local housing market is rebounding. (Press-Citizen)

Five reasons to wake up earlier and how to do it. (Des Moines Register)

You might notice some major road work today in Iowa City. (KCRG)

Congrats to these Iowa City teachers for their Shine Awards. (Press-Citizen)

The preliminary cost of damage to the Johnson County Secondary Roads building from last week's fire is set at $2 million. (Press-Citizen)

Daily Links Excerpt of the Day:

Iowa City police have pulled a recruitment video from the internet after members of the community raised concerns about its content. The video had been on the police website for more than three years before being taken down this week.

“The former Iowa City Police Department (ICPD) recruitment video, developed four years ago, has been a point of community debate due to the chosen music, imagery, and companion music video,” police chief Sam Hargadine wrote in a letter to city manager Tom Markus dated March 26. “The ICPD is responding to the concerns of our citizens by removing the video and developing a new recruitment video.”

The roughly two minute video devotes a large amount of time showing heavily armed police officers executing search warrants to music by the rock band Saliva. Such videos are not uncommon as recruiting tools for police departments, Iowa City police sergeant Vicki Lalla said

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