Editing Loveland, Colorado (section)

==Government==
{{see also|List of mayors of Loveland, Colorado}}
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|+ '''City Council:'''<ref name="citycouncil">{{cite web|title=City Council contact information|url=https://www.lovgov.org/home/showdocument?id=37823|access-date=January 17, 2024|website=City of Loveland}}</ref>
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| '''Mayor''' || Jacki Marsh
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| '''Ward 1''' || Troy Krenning and Patrick McFall
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| '''Ward 2''' || Dana Foley and Andrea Samson
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| '''Ward 3''' || Erin Black and Steve Olson
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| '''Ward 4''' || Jon Mallo and Laura Light-Kovacs

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Loveland is a home-rule, [[council-manager]] form of government. The city council is a nine-member policy-making board, led by the mayor, who is elected for a two-year term by the community at large.

The mayor has the same voting rights as all other council members and is responsible for presiding over council meetings. This position is recognized as the city government leader for all ceremonial purposes. The council elects, by majority vote, a mayor pro tem to serve the same term as the mayor. The mayor pro tem is expected to perform responsibilities of the mayor when the mayor is absent or unable to perform their duties.

Two council members are elected from each ward to serve four-year terms. There are four wards in the city. The council member representing the ward must have lived in the ward for 12 consecutive months immediately preceding the election.<ref>{{cite web|title=City of Loveland City Council|url=http://www.ci.loveland.co.us/index.aspx?page=67|access-date=April 8, 2015}}</ref>

Loveland is represented in Congress by Representative [[Lauren Boebert]] (Republican). On the state level, the city lies in the 15th district of the [[Colorado Senate]], represented by Democrat [[Janice Marchman]], and in the 51st district of the [[Colorado House of Representatives]], represented by Republican Ron Weinberg.

===Law enforcement===
The Loveland Police Department has been involved in multiple controversies, including the arrest of [[Arrest of Karen Garner|Karen Garner]], a 73-year-old woman with dementia, the shooting of and [[Involuntary euthanasia|order of euthanasia]] on a one-year-old puppy, and the [[False arrest|arrest]] of and [[Police brutality|usage of excessive force]] on a good samaritan.<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 28, 2021|title=Who Is Karen Garner, Loveland Woman Who Was Violently Arrested By Officers And Suffers From Dementia?|url=https://denver.cbslocal.com/2021/05/28/karen-garner-loveland-woman-violently-arrested-officers-suffers-dementia/|access-date=August 28, 2021|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=August 25, 2021|title=Body-cam footage shows police shoot a 'playful' puppy: 'He was curious and excited to greet this officer'|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/27/colorado-lawsuit-officer-shot-puppy/|access-date=August 28, 2021|website=The Denver Post|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Marmaduke|first=Jacy|title=Loveland man sues police, claiming unlawful excessive force, false arrest|url=https://www.coloradoan.com/story/news/2020/06/23/loveland-man-sues-police-claiming-excessive-force-false-arrest/3238531001/|access-date=August 28, 2021|website=The Coloradoan|language=en-US}}</ref> Between 2011 and 2019, the department had the second highest rate of [[police shootings]] among cities in [[Colorado]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schmelzer |first1=Elise |title=We tracked every police shooting in Colorado last year. Here's what we learned. |url=https://www.denverpost.com/2020/02/02/colorado-officer-involved-shootings-2019-database/ |access-date=April 27, 2021 |publisher=Denver Post |date=February 2, 2020}}</ref> The chief of police in Loveland is Tim Doran, who was sworn in on January 3, 2023.