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Published July 01. 2021 6:11PM | Updated July 01. 2021 6:26PM By
In our June 25 editorial congratulating Brian Wright’s elevation from captain to chief of the New London police, we presented it as an opportunity for a fresh start, a chance “to look for more avenues of cooperation and tone down the confrontation.”
With the surfacing of more information, the enormity of the challenge Chief Wright faces has become clearer.
This week the community learned more about the circumstances surrounding the sudden announcement in late May that former Chief Peter Reichard was retiring after four years in the position, nine with the department.
Mayor Michael Passero had learned of a conversation with Reichard that was clandestinely recorded by a subordinate within the department. It is not flattering.
I cover most aspects of The Day s home city, reporting on politics, education and economic development among other things going on in New London. The best part of the job is listening to the ideas generated by the people of this scrappy little city full of optimism, activism and determination. I m a father of two incredible kids whose wife is a dedicated nurse at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.
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I cover most aspects of The Day s home city, reporting on politics, education and economic development among other things going on in New London. The best part of the job is listening to the ideas generated by the people of this scrappy little city full of optimism, activism and determination. I m a father of two incredible kids whose wife is a dedicated nurse at Lawrence + Memorial Hospital.
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New London Police Sgt. Cornelius Rodgers, whose claims of racial discrimination at the police department have led to an outside investigation, now alleges he is inappropriately being passed over for upcoming promotions.
Rodgers filed two recent grievances with the city and has a new complaint with the Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities in which he claims, in part, that the police department and union retaliated against him for a previous complaint and took him out of the running for a promotion to lieutenant.
“The NLPD and union are conspiring to assert a wrong interpretation of the union contract to drop my ranking and remove my status,” Rodgers contends in a CHRO complaint.