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DUMMERSTON-A few corrections or clarification are in order regarding Tom Boswell‘s piece.
Tom said I was a representative of NAACP. I told him only that I was a member of NAACP. I was not at the meeting as a representative of NAACP but as a private concerned citizen who has been involved since 2017 with the process of improving the Fair and Impartial Policing Policy (FIPP). I was at the Police Academy that year when the policy was watered down after Trump’s first election.
I also need to clarify that although eight towns and one county did vote to improve the FIPP, those improvements were to the previous 2017 watered-down version of it. The statewide FIPP has since been improved, which is still a floor, not a ceiling. No towns have yet made any improvements to the current policy.
I emailed Tom after the meeting with information that included dates when the towns and county improved the policy and that none have done so with the current policy, and I had hoped he’d make this more clear. In his defense, there was quite a lot of extra supporting information which I sent him then.
