PERF report changes enacted
One year after the Police Executive Research Forum issued a report recommending sweeping changes for the New Haven Police Department — which created three new assistant chief positions and a revitalized Vice/Narcotics unit — PERF Executive Director Chuck Wexler lauded the changes in a news conference last week.
“It is a new day in New Haven,” he said.
Last Tuesday, Wexler and NHPD Police Chief James Lewis presented news reporters, city aldermen and Independent Accountability Panel co-chair Shirley Wayne-Washington a status report on the 57 recommendations put forth by the...