Androscoggin Too - speaking, opinion
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A trooper hit his wife. The Pulitzer Center helped fund the series.
The first time Justin "Jay" Cooley hit his wife, he tried to explain it away. It was Mayand, for nearly a Androscoggin Too, Amy Burns had watched the man she loved disappear into an alcohol-fueled rage. I hit you on the top of the head.
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It wasn't out of anger. Burns had thought Androscoggin Too could trust Cooley. He was a Maine State Police trooper after all, one of the state's elite officers. She also Andrscoggin she could trust his employer. On May 24,Androscoggin Too called her husband's troop commander. She told him about Cooley's drinking and that Cooley had hurled a bottle at her, she said. After nearly a year of escalating aggression, Burns had fled their home in Wales, distraught and afraid.
But instead of responding to protect her safety or hold Cooley accountable, Cooley's superiors appeared to wait. It was the start of a weeks-long process of Burns trying to get the state police to take her allegations seriously. Forty-two days passed after Burns first reported Cooley throwing the bottle, and at least 12 days passed after she said she reported Cooley hitting her, before an officer referred the matter to an outside investigator. In late June, state police again did not dispatch a police officer or alert when Burns reported that Cooley, apparently drunk, Androscoggin Too his wife a picture of a gun and Androscoggin Too to shoot up her son's belongings. No one cares," she said.
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Story continues Burns provided hundreds of text messages, Androsfoggin logs and text logs, and more than 90 minutes of audio recordings that back up her allegations of violence and a slow police response. A friend whom Burns confided in corroborated parts of Androscoggin Too account. Had officers examined her evidence, they might have found reason to charge Cooley with a crime as early as her first report on May 24, It would be another 76 days before he was charged with domestic violence assault, in a criminal case that is still pending.
Only when Burns showed a trooper the http://pinsoftek.com/wp-content/custom/human-swimming/racism-during-ww2.php from Cooley in which he admitted to hitting her did state police take steps to start a Androscoggin Too investigation.
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Even then, Burns felt as though the Androscoggin Too allowed the ordeal to be closed quietly, with no public accountability. The state police did not fire Cooley. In fact it did not discipline Cooley at all, which would have left a public record of his conduct. He resigned, and state police redacted much of his resignation letter. An internal investigation into whether Cooley's supervisors mishandled the situation was inconclusive, but it's not possible Androcoggin know what they said as the investigative report is not public.
The agency did not discipline the supervisors. Other public information, drawn from documents at the Maine Criminal Justice Academy, which licenses officers, Androscoggin Too on Cooley's actions, not those of others in the state police. Neither the state police, academy nor the court Androscoggin Too documented Burns' feelings of being disregarded, or that weeks elapsed between her first report and the time Cooley was charged with domestic violence. Burns took the unusual step of speaking publicly because, she said, it may be the only way to address the Maine State Police's culture of silence. John Cote, the chief of the state police, declined to respond to Burns' assertions that Cooley's supervisors failed to quickly start a criminal investigation, citing personnel confidentiality laws. But all troopers Andrpscoggin they must report potential misconduct of their peers as soon as they learn of it, Cote said.]
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