Connecticut Police

Connecticut lawmakers were warned Friday that a wide-ranging police accountability bill, which would allow officers to be personally sued in certain circumstances for violating someone’s civil rights, will have serious ramifications, including discouraging recruitment of new officers and prompting many existing ones to resign or retire. Andrew Matthews, president of the Connecticut State Police Union, told members of the...

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Hamden’s acting police chief is recommending the firing of a police officer involved in an April shooting that injured a young woman.

A Hamden police officer who was arrested for wounding a woman while shooting at a car in New Haven pleaded not guilty to charges.

Communities around the country took part in what’s known as National Drug Take Back Day on Saturday and worked to combat against the staggering numbers of opioid overdoses.

A veteran Connecticut police officer who authorities say fled the scene of a drunken driving crash has been suspended for five days.

Thousands of people rode 60 miles through Fairfield County on Sunday in the state’s largest 9/11 tribute ride.

Body-camera footage released Wednesday by Connecticut police show New York Yankees General Manager Brian Cashman getting stopped by cops at gunpoint in an apparent mix-up involving his own stolen vehicle and a separate report of an armed man at a doctor’s office.

Police are investigating a report that a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped from a Massachusetts park and possibly sexually assaulted before being reunited with her parents.

A Connecticut State Trooper who died of cancer his doctors believe was a result of the time he spent working at Ground Zero after the September 11 terrorist attacks had his name added to the Connecticut Police Memorial Thursday.

State police on Tuesday released body cam video that showed the officer-involved shooting that injured a woman in New Haven.

The suspect in the chilling death of a young woman whose body was found bound and stuffed in a suitcase and left on the side of a road in an upscale Connecticut suburb was in the country illegally, according to law enforcement sources.

Connecticut police officers have agreed to settle an alleged brutality lawsuit by a man who was shown beaten and bloody on the TV show “Live PD.”

The police department lip sync challenge continues and the New Haven Police Department was not to be left out.

A man who had an incestuous relationship with his daughter and fathered a child with her shot and killed her and her adoptive father in a pickup in New Milford, Connecticut on Thursday and then killed himself in New York, police said. The child, a 7-month-old boy, was found slain in North Carolina.

A large crowd marched in Bridgeport after the Waterbury State’s Attorney announced that a Bridgeport police officer who shot and killed a teen during a traffic stop would not face charges for the incident.

Connecticut police departments are helping to tackle the opioid crisis head on Saturday.

The case of a former Connecticut police sergeant charged with stomping on the head of a handcuffed man is returning to court for pre-trial discussions.

Eight brutality lawsuits settled over the past 10 months paint a disturbing picture of a former Connecticut police officer.