by DD | Apr 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
State lawmakers say a Hearst Connecticut Media Group investigation into state police misconduct underscores the importance of major legislative reforms they approved in 2020 and raises questions about if more should be done to bring additional accountability to...
by DD | Apr 10, 2023 | Uncategorized
Police officers across the region have been caught engaging in a variety of misdeeds in recent years — ranging from being late for duty to improper use of force to breaking into cars. But superiors rarely handed down the most serious forms of punishment, a Hearst...
by DD | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Five members of the Vermont State Police resigned amid probes into allegations of misconduct and another was terminated, according to the latest semiannual state report on complaints leading to internal investigations. Three of the resignations from July 1, 2021,...
by DD | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
The Vermont Senate will debate a bill next year to eliminate a widely used legal defense that shields police from civil lawsuits over their misconduct.Senate Judiciary Committee chair Dick Sears (D-Bennington) announced the push to end so-called “qualified immunity”...
by DD | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
It was a traffic stop that didn’t result in any criminal charges. Instead, a prosecutor took the rare step of no longer accepting any cases from the officer involved — an often fatal blow to a law enforcement career. Addison County State’s Attorney Dennis Wygmans...
by DD | Apr 9, 2023 | Uncategorized
Springfield Police Officer Ryan Prince sat down at a department computer around 3 a.m. on Aug. 20, 2020 to start his shift. When Prince tried to log in, he later told investigators, he found that officer who was using it before him hadn’t logged out of Facebook and...
