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Residents urge council to study nonpolice response teams for nonviolent calls
Summary
Several residents asked the Court of Common Council to study civilianized, nonpolice responses to nonviolent calls and to consider restructuring the police department and contract terms; a resident said Hartford already has pilot efforts and should expand them.
Alyssa Peterson, a Grandview Terrace resident, urged the Court of Common Council during public comment to study nonpolice models for handling nonviolent calls and to consider civilianizing positions within Hartford's police department.
"We need to identify an agency and a group that can possibly take nonviolent calls," Peterson said, urging the city to expand programs such as the Hart team and to explore mediation…
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