Next Monday, February 4th is the one year anniversary of Rosado taking over at HPD and it is also the day that Hartford's officers will begin wearing Axon digital body cameras.
The policy regulating the "BWC"'s will probably continue to be a work in progress for the relatively new technology for HPD as public input and input from Hartford officers becomes available. The seventeen page policy is relatively involved and has been the subject of training over the last couple weeks as Hartford officers have been instructed in their use.
These cameras have been something that Hartford resident's have been asking for for some time as well as a national trend in law enforcement to document interaction of police officers with both criminal's and citizen's alike.
As a resident that has sat in many community meetings where residents have pushed for these cameras, I think we owe a special thanks to several people, including Chief David Rosado for making the cameras a priority, Assistant Chief Jason Thody for countless hours researching the best system to meet Hartford's needs today and for years into the future.. Thody was also crucial in negotiating an excellent contract between Axon and the City, with one of the major issues for many departments being the cost of the video storage. Hartford will be using a "cloud based" system with unlimited storage with video being uploaded to the cloud system regularly by officers as the BWC's are used daily.
A/C Thody also negotiated regular replacement of the BWC's with newer equipment under the original purchase agreement as the need arises or equipment becomes outdated.
In addition, a special thanks to the HPD Officers and supervisors who went above and beyond developing this Policy for the use of the BWC's
YOU CAN VIEW THE ENTIRE POLICY BY CLICKING HERE
https://www.scribd.com/document/398506356/Hpd-Bwc-Policy
There goes the officer's discretion. And they thought dual domestic arrests were high before.....
ReplyDeleteSo when is chief rosado going to take action on one of his sgts making and admiting to making very sexual related comments to a female officer?? I know rodney was buckshots personnel driver for a time, but that is no excuse. I guess all the posters pinned to boards around city buildings that read “zero tolerance” mean nothing if you have connections. Release those iad tapes for all to hear. I bet if it was a white supervisor, swift barone esk action would have been taken.
ReplyDeleteThe AR-15 incident was squashed for rodney and now i guess its the same.
I hope this female officer files a massive lawsuit against the city for failing to do anything. Why has that supervisor not been transferred far away ? Why does that supervisor still attend in service training with the female officer in question? These are all simple questions that will be asked by an attorney right before a massive payout by the city of hartford.
8:11AM
ReplyDeleteMY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IS IN THE PROCESS OF BEING DEALT WITH
Transferred far away where? He’s already in T/S, what’s next? Hartford is a very small city. Stop harassing Rodney.
ReplyDeleteSo its ok to make sexual lewd comments to a female minority employee and get away with it?
ReplyDeleteWhere is this transparency you spew about? You mean “ buckshot transparency “... selective judgement as usual operating procedure here at the “farm. “
ReplyDeleteWhere is the dinity in making lewd and deeogatory univited remarks to a co worker. Politics has once again reared its ugly face to further denonise.
No more Union dues
ReplyDeleteThe fact that the policy was released shows transparency. As far as the employee making derogatory and homophobic remarks to an employee without any repercussions is a good question.
Maybe the fact that the same employee is on the Democratic Town Committee and was standing directly behind Mayor Bronin on the steps of City Hall when he announced his bid for reelection. Maybe that might explain who his "hook" is.
It might also explain how that same employee could remove an assault rifle from guns collected at a gun buyback, "for his own personal collection" without any repercussions
9;05am
ReplyDeleteI guess "zero tolerance" means different things to different people depending who you are
What about the Lieutenant who heard the remarks being made and admittedly did nothing. I think they call that Failure to Supervise. Where is his discipline?
ReplyDeleteHow about this: Hartford city taxpayers are on the hook for additional funds for the city’s police body camera program because city officials failed to submit paperwork to the state in time for full reimbursement.
ReplyDeleteSo typical.....
@Kozi
ReplyDeleteDo you know the figure the amount Hartford will need to spend?
Anonymous 11:10 PM:
ReplyDeleteI believe I got this information from The Courant...