March 14, 2021 at 9:00 AM
SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. – For a town frequently split in acrimonious debate over questions of racial justice and law enforcement, an online hearing last week on proposed changes in town policing produced some rare agreement.
Most of the more than two dozen speakers generally applauded the Lewisboro Police Department’s efforts toward equity and a number of them agreed that Lewisboro’s police officers should not be subjected to anonymous, third-party sniping about their conduct.
To be sure, however, differences continue to exist. For many, the draft recommendations of Lewisboro’s Police Committee on Reform and Reinvention were solutions in search of a nonexistent problem.
February 23, 2021 at 1:07 PM
SOUTH SALEM, N.Y. – Highlighted by tales of discrimination, contentious dialogue among members, and an obscene “Zoom bomb,” the latest meeting of the Lewisboro Police Reform and Reinvention Committee has made waves in the community.
Published a week-and-a-half ago, the video has garnered nearly as many views as all previous meetings combined.
Held virtually on Thursday, Feb. 4, the meeting got off to an auspicious start when about nine minutes in, according to Police Chief David Alfano, at least two young men, possibly teens, hijacked the Zoom call and made “anti-police comments,” such as “f - the police” and “ACAB” (All Cops Are Bastards). They then shared their screen, showing a pornographic video of three possibly adolescent females performing oral sex on a man. The entire incident, which has been edited out of the published video, lasted just 9 or 10 seconds, Alfano said.