Lieutenant Lonnie Blackwell and Captain Robert Sapiro will be demoted one rank in connection with the fabrication of a racially charged letter that has generated unrest in the Police Department dating back to the mayoral administration of Bill Finch. Blackwell is president of the Bridgeport Guardians minority police organization. His lawyer, former Mayor Tom Bucci who specializes […]
Entries Tagged as 'William “Ron” Bailey'
City Police Officers Demoted In Racial Letter Case Oppose Discipline
November 22nd, 2016 · 4 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
Tags: AJ Perez·Beardsley Park·Bill Finch·CT Post·James Nardozzi·Tom Bucci·William "Ron" Bailey
The Chase Is Over For Billy, Former City Police Officer Dies Tragically, Ex-fiancée Fights For Life After Shooting
June 21st, 2016 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Law Enforcement, News and Events
Former Bridgeport Police Detective Billy Chase, who went where few undercover cops had gone before infiltrating dangerous drug organizations that wreaked havoc on city neighborhoods during a period of historic violent crime from the mid 1980s into the early 1990s died Monday night following a self-inflicted gunshot wound to his head Thursday after he shot […]
Former City Police Officer Billy Chase, Ex-Girlfriend In Critical Condition Following Attempted Murder-Suicide
June 18th, 2016 · 21 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
Who knows what’s in the heart and head of someone that makes them snap to attempt the life of another and their own. Billy Chase, a retired Bridgeport police officer whose life I chronicled in the book Chased: Alone, Black, And Undercover, is extraordinarily complex, giving, yet paranoid, in some ways tortured from the professional […]
Tags: AJ Perez·Billy Chase·Sacred Heart University·William "Ron" Bailey
Ex Cop Arrested For Manufacturing Racial Hatred, Past President Of Guardians “Offended By Events”
December 2nd, 2015 · 26 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
UPDATE: The police news Bill Finch suppressed in his final days as mayor has been released, a retired black police officer has been charged with conspiring to concoct racial hatred in the department in which he claims a black superior Lieutenant Lonnie Blackwell, president of the Guardians minority police organization, put him up to it. Retired […]
Tags: Bill Finch·CT Post·Dan Tepfer·Joe Gaudett·William "Ron" Bailey
Cops Approve New Contract As Mayoral Election Gears Up
March 25th, 2015 · 12 Comments · City Politics, Law Enforcement, News and Events
With a mayoral election on the horizon, the Bridgeport Police union on Wednesday approved a new four-year contract granting firing power and assignment flexibility to Police Chief Joe Gaudett, 2.5 percent pay increases each year for officers and some concessions in a 260-79 vote by membership. The union had rejected a contract proposal last year. […]
Tags: Bill Finch·Charlie Coviello·Joe Ganim·Joe Gaudett·Mary-Jane Foster·William "Ron" Bailey
Ballot Rigged? Election Splits Local Guardians Organization
December 19th, 2014 · 6 Comments · City Politics, Law Enforcement, News and Events
The Bridgeport Guardians, a 40-year organization fighting for the rights of minority police officers, is in the throes of a testy organizational struggle between current leader Lonnie Blackwell, a lieutenant who commands the Bridgeport Regional Police Academy, and members supporting the election of Milton Johnson as president.
Tags: Al Sharpton·CT Post·David Daniels·Milton Johnson·William "Ron" Bailey
Bailey Blazed A Law Enforcement Trail In Bridgeport, Announces Retirement From PD
October 7th, 2013 · 6 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Law Enforcement, News and Events
William “Ron” Bailey is a Bridgeport Police Department original. Every stereotype you’ve experienced and heard about a cop, throw it out the window. Bailey’s not built that way. Bailey’s an oddity of law enforcement who investigated, infiltrated, grappled (he has the scars to prove it) and was shot at by the baddest of the bad […]
Disciplinary Action To Be Announced In Racist Letter Case
November 8th, 2016 · 7 Comments · Analysis and Comment, Law Enforcement, News and Events
The issue has been in the news for more than a year and has certainly frustrated a number of city police officers, but this week the city is expected to announce disciplinary action against Lieutenant Lonnie Blackwell and another officer involving the fabrication of a racially charged letter that has generated unrest in the Police […]
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Tags: AJ Perez·Beardsley Park·Bill Finch·James Nardozzi·Joe Gaudett·Tom Bucci·William "Ron" Bailey