Joe Pero

==Background==
* Police chief in McKeesport in 2007
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===Media===
* Three in law enforcement run for district judge
** In the event you want to talk to McKeesport police Chief Joe Pero about the 2007 primary election for district judge, here is one thing to remember: Don't do it. There are three candidates who are current and former officers on the force, and he is endorsing none of them. The chief wants the department and its officers left out of the political process.
** "I've made it clear [to candidates] not to involve the police department in any way," the chief said recently. Police taking sides in the race is a bad idea, he said, because, eventually, officers will be called to the witness stand in cases that are tried before the winner, whoever he is.
** The three candidates: Deputy Chief of Police Mark Holtzman, 50; Lt. Theodore Dixon, 54; and former McKeesport Detective Capt. Eugene Riazzi, 50, now a deputy for the Allegheny County Sheriff's Department, are registered Democrats planning to cross-file for the May primary.
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