Sources

Numbers should be easy to check.

These are the public sources used for claims on this website.

Police pay

Chesapeake Police Department Employment: public employment page for Chesapeake police hiring.
Chesapeake Police Salary & Benefits: lists police trainee pay.
Norfolk Police Careers: lists $61,200 starting pay after academy.
Virginia Beach Police Salary and Benefits: lists $61,734 after academy graduation.

Police activity

Chesapeake Police Department Quick Links: links to the 2025 CPD Annual Report.
The 41-position shortage is campaign-tracked and should be refreshed against the latest city vacancy data before a major ad buy or mailer.

Campaign finance and disclosure

Code of Virginia, Campaign Finance Disclosure Act: contributor reporting rules.
Code of Virginia § 24.2-956: campaign advertisement disclosure language.

Cloudflare fix

This version uses folder-based pages like /taxes/ and /about/.
The old reverse redirects from /taxes to /taxes.html were removed because Cloudflare already canonicalizes HTML pages to extensionless URLs.