The Connecticut State Police Union joined the chorus of law enforcement representatives and Republican lawmakers asking Gov. Ned Lamont to suspend a portion of the state’s new police accountability bill that they blame for increasing violence in several Connecticut cities this year.
The union also decried the decision to send 15 state police personnel into Hartford earlier this month to help combat a rise in gun violence in the capital, arguing the move puts troopers at higher risk of injury, death or liability for their actions by working in Hartford, according to a letter addressed to Lamont released Friday.