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West Hartford has a new Civilian Police Review Board. (Tim Jensen/Patch)
WEST HARTFORD, CT The West Hartford Town Council Tuesday appointed the members of its new Civilian Police Review Board.
The council established the CPRB in February. West Hartford is one of the first Connecticut municipalities to have established a civilian police review board using new authority provided in the police accountability legislation adopted by the state General Assembly last summer.
The CPRB consists of seven civilian regular members and three alternates appointed by the council.
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The CPRB will be responsible for reviewing the internal investigation of all complaints received by the West Hartford Police Department and for providing the council with annual policy recommendations.
West Hartford’s new civilian police review board will include several attorneys, a consultant to the state department of children and families, a psychiatric clinician and a retired corrections officer among others.
Justices suspend Bethlehem lawyer they say ignored civil probe
Roy Nestler argued he cooperated with investigation and should not have been benched
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Appellate justices in Albany on Thursday indefinitely suspended Roy Nestler, a Bethlehem attorney, from practicing law, saying he failed to cooperate with a legal watchdog committee’s investigation into a client’s complaint. (Skip Dickstein / Times Union)SKIP DICKSTEIN
ALBANY – Appellate justices in Albany on Thursday indefinitely suspended a Bethlehem attorney from practicing law, saying he failed to cooperate with a watchdog committee’s investigation into a client’s complaint.
Roy Nestler, a lawyer practicing since 2001 who worked in criminal and civil law, failed to provide bank statements requested by a grievance committee that examines complaints against lawyers, the ruling said.
, by Jennifer Taub, Viking, New York, 2020
The term “white-collar crime,” which appears in the subtitle of a new book,
Big Dirty Money, The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime, was apparently first coined during the Great Depression of the 1930s. The phenomenon is as old as capitalism itself. In Jennifer Taub’s work the focus is on the United States, but the reality she describes, though nowhere more explosive than in the US, is a global one.
Taub, a professor at the University of Western New England School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts, brings together much valuable data and information on white-collar crime and on the connection between its recent prominence and that of extreme wealth inequality. Her book is noteworthy for correctly focusing on the role of class in shaping the lives and futures of humanity.