Wentworth Cheswill was first African American elected to public office in U.S. history > > >Published: 7/4/2021 8:00:05 PM
Nearly 30 years ago, Charlotte DiLorenzo moved to Newmarket from Massachusetts, where she had lived her whole life. The lack of racial diversity in her new home state was nothing less than culture shock for her.
“I lived in Beverly, I grew up in Lynn, I worked in Boston. I was sort of used to being in diverse communities and being around a lot of diverse people,” DiLorenzo, who is Black, said. “Things were so different.”
Unknown to DiLorenzo at the time, and to many New Hampshirite today, the same Granite State that Dilorenzo met in 1993 is home to the nation’s first African American person elected to public office – in 1768.
Should NH add de-escalation and implicit bias training for police to state law?
A NH Department of Safety State Police vehicle GEOFF FORESTER / Monitor file
Published: 5/18/2021 2:54:27 PM
Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Senate unanimously passed SB 114, a bill to require law enforcement officers to complete training on de-escalation, ethics, implicit bias, and cultural diversity. The bill mirrors action from the Police Standards and Training Council to voluntarily add this training. Now that SB 114 is in the House of Representatives, some legislators argue a state law is unnecessary.
A bill to address implicit bias
SB 114 was originally introduced to address discrimination at state parks, in particular. Among other things, the bill would have created a database of racist attacks and other civil rights violations in publicly-accessible areas. After debating the concept of “verbal violence” and other language in the bill, Republicans in the Senate moved to greatly narr
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Police data show incidents involving offensive and bladed weapons rose by 64 for the third quarter of 2020/21
Dumfries and Galloway divisional commander, Chief Superintendent Carol McGuire.
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