From the Bridgeport Public Library COMMUNITY POLICING is a term with a variety of meanings. Come to Bridgeport Main Library, Broad and State St., on February 10, 2018 Saturday from 10:30 AM to 12:30 PM. Retired retired Bridgeport Police Department Lieutenants Ron Bailey (Housatonic CC instructor) and David Daniels, III (Community Service consultant) will serve […]
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Bailey And Daniels To Discuss Community Policing
January 28th, 2018 · 3 Comments · Law Enforcement, Library, News and Events
‘No Black Heroes’–Bailey’s Book Chronicles Struggles Of Black Police Officers
September 25th, 2017 · 9 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
Retired Bridgeport Police Lieutenant Ron Bailey is one of a kind, for sure. He battled bad guys, establishment guys, police chiefs and racism. He investigated, infiltrated and broke up sinister gangs. Most of us duck verbal slings and arrows. Bailey ducked gunfire that was intended for him. Four years ago, after 30 years on the […]
City Police Officers Demoted In Racial Letter Case Oppose Discipline
November 22nd, 2016 · 4 Comments · Law Enforcement, News and Events
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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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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