Crime & Safety

Despite No Report Yet on Shootings, CT Police Give Talks on Newtown

In a story this weekend, the Hartford Courant accuses the state police of sharing details of the horrific Sandy Hook shootings with other police groups while failing to issue an official report on the massacre.

By Eileen McNamara

State police who responded to the deadly shooting rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School have released details of it to people outside of our state while failing to release an official report here.

In a story this weekend the Hartford Courant says that some officers have even released horrific details of what they saw inside the school during talks to police organizations around the country.

Meanwhile, the Connecticut State Police missed a June deadline to issue their official report on the Dec. 14 shootings inside Sandy Hook Elementary School and have said they intend to file the report by September. But the newspaper says state police may miss that deadline as well. 

And while state police supervisors insist their officers are not publicly revealing details of the Newtown shootings, the Courant reports numerous instances of officers doing just that. One such instance, the newspaper says, was just two weeks ago when state police played portions of the 911 dispatch tape from the Sandy Hook shootings to a gathering of some 800 law enforcement officials at a conference in Orlando.


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