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Article: State police tighten conduct standards; New public safety commissioner sends message misconduct will not be ignored.
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- New Haven Register
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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The prospects of an exchange of racist e-mail among state
troopers being thoroughly investigated are far better today than
they were a year ago, when the incident might have been brushed off.
A joint report last December by the New York State Police and
Connecticut's attorney general found state police failed to
investigate or effectively discipline troopers for their misconduct.
It identified 19 cases -- including troopers who were never arrested
although they beat up their wives or girlfriends or drove their
cruisers while intoxicated -- in which investigations of the
misconduct were incompetent, incomplete or disciplinary action was
negligible.
Since then, the state police have a new ...