“The suspect in this case has now had more than 100 police involvements,” said acting Chief of Police Jon Murad. “Even before this morning’s spate of vandalisms, he had accumulated more than a dozen police involvements since June 1st, more than half of which involved arrest or referrals to alternative justice.”
We’ve been charting the Democrat decline of Burlington, Vermont, for a few years, and it is swirling the bowl as predicted. Property crime has been rising, and now gun crime is becoming a problem, but the local police department lacks resources. Can you guess why?
She will be the first woman to serve in the role, overseeing the State Police, Vermont Emergency Management, Vermont Crime Information Center, Forensic Lab, Division of Fire Safety and more.
The Burlington Police on Monday responded to an incident in which a former University of Vermont student shot and killed a current UVM student and seriously wounded another victim before turning the gun on himself.
Vermont’s adult prisons face severe staffing problems. The same cannot be said for juvenile detention — but only because at present, there is no permanent, secure juvenile detention facility in Vermont.
Throughout the past year, the Vermont Chamber has heard from businesses experiencing the rise in retail theft, and we have been comparing the policy changes in other states aimed at addressing this issue, which could be blueprints for Vermont to follow in the coming years.
“The Ferguson Effect is a real thing. Police officers started to back away from enforcement,” Knezovich said. “You saw it across the nation. You wonder why you see less and less enforcement and more and more crime, it’s woke politicians and activists and the media have made it so.”
Nineteen matters came before SPAC from July 1, 2021, to Dec. 31, 2021. Six of the incidents involved multiple troopers or multiple reports related to the same trooper. Of the 19 cases, 18 came to the attention of supervisors due to internal reporting by members of the state police.
Taxpayers should reimburse businesses for retail theft losses if shoplifters can’t afford to pay, Chittenden County State’s Attorney incumbent Sarah George suggested during a recent candidate debate.
It is inevitable at some point that the failed policies of Chittenden County prosecutor Sarah George and other extremist progressives will become sufficiently evident that Vermont will take action to protect its citizenry from criminals, rather than treat all criminals as victims of society.
Police Chief Mike Thomas said the program could bring the department back to full staffing levels and help reduce overtime hours for current officers and dispatchers. The department would ideally have between 12 and 15 officers, he said, but right now has only five full-time officers.
A 14-year-old Essex boy was cited and released Sunday, July 10, after Essex police say that on July 8 he threatened adults on a bike path with a baseball bat, demanding their cellphones and passcodes. He struck a woman with the bat after she didn’t immediately comply.