Both have shut down radio stations that used to beam non-stop tirades into one another's territory.

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The current drought has forced disaster declarations in 26 states and a spate of emergency conservation orders, including in Warrenton, where the city ordered residents to stop watering their lawns, shut down commercial car washes and banned and just about every other non-essential use of water.

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As a result the anti- gang crash units were shut down and a new complaints and discipline policy to stop police corruption was taken up. 10.09.36 Clive Myrie This was the Police department that Bill Bratton took over.

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