Plan to ax Conn. trooper mandate raises concerns

May 19, 2012 | But while state police were en route, her husband bludgeoned her to death in front of their 5-year-old son with a piece of wood and a fireplace poker. The vicious attack was the driving force behind a law that mandated state police to have a minimum of 1,248 troopers in hopes of decreasing response times. After her sister was murdered in Chaplin in 1998, when the nearest state trooper 18 minutes away, Hannah Williamson-Coon was able to take some solace in the fact that Connecticut officials later passed a law aimed at boosting patrols. The state had about 970 troopers at the time. Malloy is pushing the legislature to approve a bill that would eliminate the minimum staffing requirement, saying it's rarely been met, is arbitrary and crime is at a 44-year-low in the state. Her husband was acquitted by reason of insanity and remains committed to a state psychiatric hospital. HARTFORD, Conn. That January day, a pregnant Heather Messenger called 911. Read more »

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