HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) – A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, Connecticut, despite continued concerns the department still has not hired enough minority officers to reflect the city’s large Black and Hispanic populations. U.S. District Judge Kari Dooley in Bridgeport issued a 10-page ruling late Friday, April 14th, 2023 saying the plaintiffs failed to prove the police department was violating any part of the original 1973 consent decree agreement or revisions made to it in 2010. Dooley approved the city’s request to dissolve the consent decree, which was to have ended four
Greater Hartford Branch NAACP President Corrie Betts said he is deeply disappointed with the decision to dissolve the consent decree between the city and the U.S. Department of Justice, as it was put in place to address issues of racial profiling and other civil rights violations by the Hartford Police Department.
HARTFORD, Conn. A judge has ended the nearly 50 years of federal oversight of police in Hartford, despite continued concerns that the department still has not hired enough minority officers to reflect the city s large Black and Hispanic populations.