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Article: CAPITOL NOTEBOOK: State police allegations no surprise, given past
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- December 11, 2006
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Given the sad record of Connecticut government for most of the
past decade, last week's report on state police failures to properly
investigate wrongdoing by its officers shouldn't have come as a
surprise. All the same, the independent study by New York State
Police experts made for ugly reading.
There were allegations of a state police officer running a
"protection racket" for drug dealers, and troopers competing to see
who could rack up the most drunken driving arrests, regardless of
whether the arrests were legitimate.
Other officers were accused of sexual assault, of using shotguns
to intimidate civilians that irritated them, of associating with drug