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30% of Rhode Island State Police recruits quit in first month of academy

30% of Rhode Island State Police recruits quit in first month of academy
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Hank Moniz, of Halifax, MA, was RI's first Black state trooper in 1969


EAST PROVIDENCE Hank Moniz was two years out of the Marines, a Vietnam veteran working as a machinist in 1969, when he was looking for something better.
I had to make some decisions as to where I was going, Moniz told The Providence Journal last week. He was married, owned a house, and had one child, with another one on the way. I needed to get a job, and I needed stability in my life.
Since high school, he had wanted to be a Rhode Island state trooper. Many people had told me that wasn t going to happen, he said.
That s because Hank Henry J. Moniz Jr., a third-generation descendant of Cape Verdean immigrants is Black, and the Rhode Island State Police had never had a Black trooper. ....

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