S.B. 258, An Act Concerning Police Patrol Vehicles That Require Dashboard Cameras and the Acquisition of a Mine-Resistant, Ambush-Protected Vehicle

Highly militarized policing should be defunded in favor of investing those funds into the programs, resources, and services that truly create stable, healthy, and safe communities. Highly militarized police units and equipment turn communities into war zones. Neighborhoods are not battlegrounds, and no arm of the government should be treating Connecticut residents like wartime enemy combatants. Despite that, militarized units have proliferated across Connecticut1 and police frequently and inappropriately deploy them..2 Connecticut must divest from this type of policing rather than encouraging it.