Specific information about misconduct must be disclosed in the disciplinary records of police officers and other public employees under law changes signed by Gov. MIlls, but recommendations to require record retention were not included.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Police working to repair Maine’s broken system of crisis response
Partnerships with mental health and substance use liaisons allow us to embed skilled professionals with police officers on calls. That’s what a robust, appropriate response looks like.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Maine Deadly Force Review Panel report doesn’t shed enough light
Failures to deescalate situations we can clearly understand. Why don’t we know more about the police interventions that succeed?
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The grinding persistence of America’s police problem
The videotaped death of Tyre Nichols is as shocking as it is utterly familiar.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Looking at Portland’s racial disparity in arrests, and weighing what it means
What I know is that bias is pervasive, even if most of us don’t think of ourselves as biased at all.
Posted inMaine, News
Maine police academy graduates 62 cadets
The officers include nine women and represent 42 police agencies from York to Madawaska.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: When police chiefs dial 911, law-and-order representatives need to answer
It is time for our new congressional leaders to make history by bringing a new era of unity to our tired old partisan gun politics.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: Police-worn body cameras can restore faith in criminal justice
The 2014 killing of Michael Brown by a police officer resulted in calls for mandatory use of body cameras. Momentum has since dropped off. Why?
Posted inCops & Courts, Maine
Pandemic shortages limit OUI arrests, but numbers still climb
The number of OUI arrests has jumped dramatically in some southern Maine communities, a trend public safety officials say traces back to the pandemic.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
ACLU says pot store camera requirements violate Maine’s ban on facial surveillance
State regulators say the draft rules to require recreational cannabis stores to use video cameras to record shoppers’ faces simply update existing requirements to cover newly approved cannabis delivery.