Residents, elected officials spar over police accountability
PAWTUCKET – City leaders and some residents are in sharp disagreement over whether Police Chief Tina Goncalves should be required to give an annual in-person update on the state of policing in Pawtucket. Eleven residents, at least some upset by a letter from Mayor Donald Grebien asking the City Council to consider eliminating language in local law requiring the chief to make a report to the council at the first meeting in September each year, testified at the Dec. 9 meeting. Grebien holds that the language should reflect the practices in place since 2011, which do not include that visit. G...
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