Police Accountability

The newly created Connecticut inspector general’s office investigated nine cases of police using deadly force last year, finding eight of them were justified.

Some Connecticut Democrats have pledged to support the legislative priorities of a multi-religious group called Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT).

A national database report shows Connecticut had among the lowest number of police-involved killings in the country this year.

The man beaten by former Suffolk County Police Chief James Burke has filed a second lawsuit stemming from a second incident where he alleges police again used excessive force.

Connecticut’s Republican gubernatorial candidate Bob Stefanowski has doubled down on his pledge to reverse the state’s two-year old police accountability law, if elected governor.

Prude died a week after his arrest by Rochester police. Lawyers representing the plaintiffs will receive $4 million of the total.

Supporters of Randy Cox, a Black man paralyzed after being hurled around a New Haven police van, announced the planned lawsuit at city hall.

New York Attorney General Letitia James will not bring charges against a Suffolk County police officer who shot and killed a man in Manorville last year.

The town of Southold on Long Island is refusing to turn over records related to an investigation by the town board into a police retirement party.

The data must be more reliable and comprehensive before it can show relationships based on race, ethnicity or crime rates, the report from Connecticut police use-of-force report says.