The goal of the reexamination of the role of the police is to “transform the police into a force for justice. We are not painting our Police Department with the same brush as other departments in other cities.”
-- Selectboard member Leigh Davis
I have quoted liberally from “The 2000 Year Old Man” for years. Many of my friends and I have committed a good deal of his work to memory and it has become a short hand for almost every political situation.
Longtime police Chief Bill Walsh told the board his department was an early adopter of the principles enunciated in President Obama's Task Force on 21st Century Policing.
In a letter to the editor, Mae Whaley writes, "As much as it is necessary for us to stay aware of the overt ways in which police departments across the country are contributing to racism, we cannot allow the constant images and videos of tear gas, rubber bullets and concussion grenades to lower our standards for how we expect our police to behave."
Zalewski kept police busy all weekend as police received numerous complaints of him jumping into the river on Grove Street half-naked, refusing to leave a local business for not wearing a mask and prompting a complaint from a local hotel for larceny of room items.
Around 7 a.m. the Columbia County Sheriff's Office in New York notified authorities in Massachusetts that a damaged vehicle matching the wanted car had crashed into a culvert in Hillsdale.
On May 14 at 9 p.m., Officer Joseph O’Brien, while running radar on the street, stopped a white Kawasaki motorcycle for doing 57 miles per hour in a 35 mph speed zone.
But thankfully the surge never materialized. So Dr. Adrian Elliot urged those who would normally be seeking care at Fairview to return to that practice.
