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Patrick Johnson: ‘This is how our system works’: Public defender Randy Gioia charges Springfield Mayor Sarno, Police Commissioner Clapprood with stoking fear [The Republican, Springfield, Mass.]
Jan. 28 SPRINGFIELD One of the state’s top public defenders is faulting Springfield Mayor Domenic Sarno and Police Commissioner Cheryl C. Clapprood for using the “bully pulpit to stoke fear.”
Randy Gioia, deputy chief counsel for the Committee for Public Counsel Services, reacted to comments made Wednesday by Sarno and Clapprood criticizing a Springfield District Court judge’s decision to release a firearms suspect from custody on the condition that he wear a GPS monitoring device.
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Frustrated by what they see as a lack of progress in reforming the police department, activists in Springfield, Massachusetts want the U.S. Department of Justice to step back in.
The Springfield chapter of the NAACP and the Pioneer Valley Project want the Department of Justice and the city to come to a settlement that could result in a federal judge overseeing reforms of the Springfield Police Department.
The only way we can have any confidence they are going to implement police reforms that bring about accounability in this city is if they are under a consent decree and so we call on the Department of Justice to move in that direction, said Bishop Talbert Swan, president of the Springfield NAACP chapter.