State Police Study Finds Traffic Race Disparity

The head of the Vermont State Police says the results of a study found a small racial and ethnic bias in police stops. Colonel Tom L’Esperance says the information shows the police have to look more carefully at what they’re doing.
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Police Peeved Over Pig Prank

Vermont State Police say it’s no laughing matter that images of a pig showed up on decals on the side of about 30 of their cruisers, and they say inmates at the Department of Corrections are responsible.
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Vermont’s Bias-Free Policing Policy

The arrest of two migrant farmworkers during a routine traffic stop has effected a change in the state’s bias-free policing policy, the Governor appointed an advisory panel to look at the state’s investment in UVM and gold fever has struck in Central Vermont, again.  

State Troopers Search For Impersonator

Vermont State Police troopers are looking for an armed police impersonator who stopped a woman on Route 15 in Morrisville and assaulted her after ordering her out of her car.