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BOTH Labor and the Liberals have promised to recruit an extra 400 police officers if they win government as they compete to be toughest on law and order.
Labor got in first with the announcement yesterday morning, promising to deliver an extra 100 officers a year for four years if re-elected on March 18.
A few hours later, Opposition police spokesman Robert Brokenshire was making the same commitment, downplaying his annoyance at missing the first go.
The pledges came just days after the Police Association demanded Labor and the Liberal Party commit to hiring an ext... Read more
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28 February 2006
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DANBURY – Maybe if Buddy had been a hot dog instead of a puppy, Karl Murphy wouldn't have objected.
But Monday, the 19-year police department veteran filed a complaint with the city's Board of Ethics over the Mayor Mark Boughton's recent acceptance of an 11-week-old tan-and-black pug to replace the mayor's old dog, who died in January.
Murphy, who's feuded with the mayor for months, claims Boughton violated his own policy, and the city charter, in accepting the puppy from David Caruba, an 86-year-old Danbury man and a distant relative of the mayor.
"If you can eat it, you can keep it," was what Boughton told city employees in a December e-mail concerning gifts from people doing business with or receiving services from the city. "If someone has something delivered to you that does not fall into this exception, please return it immediately."
Pugs like Buddy can sell for more than $1,000, Murphy said.
"Not to take away from the generosity of the man, but what if a year down the road, the guy needs a favor?" Murphy said. "The mayor's not doing much to hide the fact that he's violating his own policy."
The policy applies to Caruba, Murphy said, because "every Danbury resident receives services from the city."
Copies of the complaint were forwarded to the governor and Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal, he said.
Boughton and Caruba said Murphy is barking up the wrong tree.
"Mr. Caruba is a cousin of my grandfather,' Boughton said. "He's not doing any business with the city, so there is no ethics violation. Karl should be embarrassed that he's wasting our lawyer's time. He ought to be out catching bad guys."
Caruba, a widower who received the puppy as a Christmas present from his children, gave the dog to Boughton and his wife, Phyllis, after reading about the death of the Boughton's 9-year-old pug, Milo, in early January.
"It's ridiculous. I'm not a politician and I'm not looking for any favors. I was just looking for a good home for the little dog," Caruba said. "The gift was to his wife. She was really torn up by the loss of their dog."
The ethics complaint is the latest chapter in a long-running feud between Boughton and Murphy, who was suspended by the mayor for 10 days last summer for violating the department's funeral leave policy.
During the last election campaign, Murphy highlighted the local police union's dissatisfaction by painting a rat on his pickup truck with the letters "SOB," which he said stood for "Sour On Boughton."
He also has filed a complaint with the state Freedom of Information Commission over the mayor's discussion of Murphy's personnel file during a caucus of Republican members of the Common Council in October. A preliminary hearing on that complaint was held Monday in Hartford.
Boughton said the complaints are part of a strategy to discredit him should he have to take future disciplinary action against Murphy. As a result of the suspension, Murphy can be fired the next time he violates department policies, he said.
"He's trying to build a case so that if anything should happen in the future, he can say whatever is done to him was retaliatory."
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