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The Police Transparency and Accountability Task Force created by the legislature more than two years ago approved a list of proposals Tuesday that aim to improve the accountability, transparency and diversity of police departments in Connecticut.

After two years of delving into how police do their jobs in Connecticut, a state task force on Tuesday unanimously approved a final report recommending...

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") } }) ev.preventDefault(); }); 1 Denise Paley holds up a photograph of her son, Ellis Tibere, at a virtual public hearing last month. Paley is pushing for more mental health training for police officers a little over a year after Tibere randomly attacked a woman in a Westport parking lot during an apparent mental health crisis. Image capture from CT-N ) Guilford — It was the evening of Jan. 5 last year that Denise Paley walked into the Guilford Police Department (GPD) headqua...

Associated Press HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son’s struggles with mental illness and reacted differently before an officer shot and killed him last year in Ansonia, Connecticut. Her son, Michael Gregory, had been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and attempted suicide several times. He was in crisis when he was shot on Jan. 2, 2020, while charging officers with a knife, after telling them they were going to have to shoot him. M...

HARTFORD, Conn. – Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her sons struggles with mental illness and reacted differe ...

Some police departments around the U.S. are expanding the use of voluntary registries of disabled people to include those with mental illness. Its part of an effort to improve how police interact with people with mental illness and avoid deadly shootings by officers.

Victoria Mitchell wishes police would have had the full picture of her son’s struggles with mental illness and reacted differently before an officer shot