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All Eyes Are on a Consultant Reviewing Burlington's Police Department


Rob Donnelly
Last June, hundreds of people called in to public meetings to demand that the City of Burlington reduce its reliance on police officers and instead invest in other public safety measures. City councilors listened, voting 9-3 to reduce the police force by 30 percent, through attrition. They also ordered up a study to answer a vital question: If police were no longer responding to certain calls, who would?
Nine months later, that study is just getting under way. A joint committee of city councilors and police commissioners has hired CNA, a Virginia-based nonprofit, to assess who, what, where and how the department polices, to quote a city document. CNA s team of nine a social worker, a police oversight expert, two retired police officers and several data analysts officially started the job last week. The agency, which the city will pay about $100,000 for the analysi ....

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