![]() ![]() Bittaker would later claim these numerous theft-related offenses committed throughout his adolescence had been attempts to compensate for the lack of love he received from his parents. īittaker was first arrested for shoplifting at the age of 12 and obtained a minor criminal record over the next four years after further arrests for the same offense-in addition to petty theft-which brought him to the attention of juvenile authorities. Bittaker's adoptive father worked in the aviation industry, which required the family to frequently move around the United States throughout his childhood. : 84 He was placed in an orphanage by his birth mother and was adopted by Mr. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on September 27, 1940, as the unwanted child of a couple who had chosen to not have children. īittaker and Norris became known as the "Tool Box Killers" because the majority of instruments used to torture and murder their victims, such as pliers, ice picks, and sledgehammers, were items normally stored inside a household toolbox. He died of natural causes at the California Medical Facility in February 2020. Norris accepted a plea bargain whereby he agreed to testify against Bittaker and was sentenced to life imprisonment on May 7, 1980, with possibility of parole after serving thirty years. Douglas as the most disturbing individual for whom he has ever created a criminal profile, : 135 Bittaker was sentenced to death for five murders on March 24, 1981, but died of natural causes while incarcerated on death row at San Quentin State Prison in December 2019. Lawrence Sigmund Bittaker (Septem– December 13, 2019) and Roy Lewis Norris (Febru– February 24, 2020), also known as the Tool Box Killers, were two American serial killers and rapists who committed the kidnapping, rape, torture, and murder of five teenage girls in southern California over a five-month period in 1979.
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The energy and transport teams have won funding from central government, Europe and other sources, and the savings the energy team generates means it actually makes a profit for the council that can be used to cross-subsidise crucial departments such as children’s services. “We’re putting solar panels on anything that doesn’t move, really, because it saves us money in the long run and helps support other work we’re doing.” “We have a positive attitude to these things because they pay for themselves,” says Longford. That money has helped with the redevelopment of Nottingham station, an expansion of the tram network that runs on green electricity from the council’s own energy company, and the council’s fleet of 58 electric buses that has reduced carbon emissions by more than 1,050 tonnes. It is still the only such scheme in the UK and has not only tackled congestion and pollution but netted the council £61m for improving and “greening” public transport. Introduced in 2012, the WPL is aimed at employers providing 11 or more commuter parking spaces, with an annual rate of £415 per space. Photograph: Tracey Whitefoot/Nottingham Council ![]() One policy in particular, its workplace parking levy (WPL), was a “gamechanger” according to Longford. “When I was talking to the officers about how far we could push this they were confident we could go further than other councils because of all the work we’d already done.” People thought we were anti-car, because we introduced various schemes to try and reduce car usage and congestion.”īut it has paid off. “He was determined to make progress and drove forward quite a lot of the early development,” says Longford. Making the carbon neutral commitment was only possible, says Sally Longford, the Labour council’s deputy leader and portfolio holder for energy and environment, because of the work that had gone before – especially the efforts of her predecessor in the environment role, councillor Alan Clark, who died in 2017. “Many public services are still barely off the starting blocks in the race to tackle the emergency, but Nottingham has shown what can be done through inspired leadership and gritty determination,” he says, adding: “In scrutinising every aspect of its own practice, and taking bold steps to shape behaviour in the wider community, the city council has truly set the bar for excellence in how public agencies must respond to the threat to the planet.” The council is ‘sticking solar panels on anything that doesn’t move’. “This has been the year when argument over the climate crisis finally ended and the imperative for radical action became widely understood,” says the Guardian’s public services editor, David Brindle. The council’s vision and tenacity was recognised on Tuesday night when it was named the overall winner in the Guardian’s Public Service Awards. It met its 2020 target to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 26% four years early more than 40% of all journeys in Nottingham are made on public transport and solar panels have been installed on more than 4,000 council houses.Įnergy consumption of council buildings has been cut by 39% and it is on track to generate 20% of its energy from low-carbon sources by next year.Īnd last year the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs concluded that the city’s air pollution had fallen so much that a Clean Air Zone was not needed. ![]() When Nottingham city council announced in January that it intended to become the UK’s first carbon-neutral city by 2028, it was the latest step in years of ambitious, innovative and forward-thinking environmental policymaking that has already yielded breathtaking results. |