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Cops, educators
prep for shooter
Drill at Roxbury school varies from usual lockdown

Dover Police Lt. Barry Young has sued the

town, mayor and administrator, saying he
was retaliated against because of his
support of then-Police Chief Harold Butch
Valentine for mayor last year.

Suspended
Dover
lieutenant
sues town
Claims retaliation for
backing former chief
PEGGY WRIGHT @PEGGYWRIGHTDR

PHOTOS BY BOB KARP/STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

ALICE instructor Detective Derek Jones of the Georgetown (Mass.) Police Department plays the bad guy, pointing and firing an
Airsoft pistol during training preparing for a school shooter with local law enforcement and educators at Roxbury High School.

See DRILL, Page 4A

See LIEUTENANT, Page 6A

The town is certain that once

MICHAEL IZZO @MIZZODR

ROXBURY - Derek Jones entered the

classroom and found about a dozen people hiding in the corner. He walked up to
each of them, one by one, and pointed a
gun at their heads.
Bang. Bang. Bang. Bang.
Jones, a detective from Georgetown,
Massachusetts, was running a drill for
more than 80 law enforcement officials,
educators and business owners gathered
at Roxbury High School Tuesday and
Wednesday for an ALICE training program.
How did that make you feel? Hopeless? Horrible? said Jones, who was in
charge of the ALICE program. You
guys allowed me to shoot you in the head.
I executed you. In five minutes and 25
seconds, I basically killed 80 people. I
think we got our point across, thats a traditional lockdown for you.
ALICE stands for Alert Lockdown Inform Counter Evacuate, and the national
security training course offers methods
for how to survive an active shooter scenario in the crucial minutes before first

DOVER - Police Lt. Barry M. Young Jr., one of the

highest-ranking members of the department who was
suspended with pay nine months ago, has sued the
town, mayor and administrator, saying he was retaliated against because of his support of then- Police
Chief Harold Butch Valentine for mayor last year.
Youngs lawsuit, filed in state Superior Court, Morristown, by attorney Christopher L. Deininger, also
cites violations of the states Conscientious Employee
Protection Act. The suit says that in 2015, Town Administrator Donald Travisano allegedly demanded
that Young then the departments commander of internal affairs turn over documents containing private health care information about another police officer and Young refused.
Edward Bilinkas, the attorney hired by Young the
day after he was suspended on June 10, 2015, has said
the town has not responded in any way to his communications nor turned over any discovery related to
reasons why Young was suspended with pay and ordered to turn in his badge and gun.

adjudicated, the suit will prove to be a

fruitless vehicle from a disgruntled
employee.
DONALD TRAVISANO, TOWN ADMINISTRATOR

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ALICE instructor Detective Derek Jones of the Georgetown (Mass.)

Police Department wraps up bad guy Lou Sylvester of the North
Warren school district, showing how to swarm a person with a gun.

Newark agrees to police reforms

KATHLEEN HOPKINS @KHOPKINSAPP

NEWARK - The city of Newark has agreed to a $7.4

million program of police reforms to end practices
that have disproportionately affected minorities and
included thefts by officers, excessive use of force, and
unconstitutional stops, searches and arrests.
The city and the U.S. Department of Justice signed
a consent decree to resolve troubling issues revealed in a three-year Justice Department investigation into the city police force that began in 2011, U.S.
Attorney Paul J. Fishman said at a news conference
with Mayor Ras Baraka, acting Public Safety Director
Anthony Ambrose and Vanita Gupta, head of the Justice Departments Civil Rights Division.
The federal and city officials at the news conference called the agreement historic and said it will
serve as a model for communities around the nation
looking to improve relations between their communities and police departments.
This agreement holds the potential to make Newark a national model for constitutional, effective and
accountable community policing in the 21st century,

U.S. Attorney Paul J. Fishman said Newark

and the U.S. Department of Justice signed a
consent decree to resolve troubling issues
revealed in a three-year Justice Department
investigation into the city police force that
began in 2011.

Gupta said.
However, she declined to compare Newark to other
communities experiencing strained police relations,
such as Ferguson, Missouri, or Baltimore and said
there is no cookie-cutter version of agreements that
can be reached with communities to resolve their issues.
Ferguson is not Newark, she said. Its not Baltimore. Every city has its own challenges.
But the agreement reached with Newark really is a
blueprint for communities around the country, Gupta
said. It addresses challenges that many communities
are facing.
Gupta said other communities around the nation
See REFORMS, Page 2A

MADISON, Wis. - Frustrated Republicans grappled

with new fears about Donald Trumps impact on their
party Wednesday, as the billionaire businessmans
campaign rivals targeted his punitive plan for fighting
abortion and extraordinary defense of his campaign
manager who police say assaulted a female reporter.
Concern rippled through Republican circles nationwide, yet few dared criticize the GOP front-runner directly when pressed, leery of confronting the
man who may well lead their election ticket in November.
Their silence underscored the deep worries plaguing the partys leaders particularly its most prominent women who are growing increasingly concerned that a Trump presidential nomination could not
only cost the 2016 election but also tarnish the party
brand for a generation of women and young people.
A nominee who cannot speak to women cannot
win, said New Hampshire party chairwoman Jennifer Horn, though declining to rebuke Trump by name.
Trump added to his challenge when asked to explain his prescription to fight abortion, a subject that
remains highly controversial decades after the Supreme Court legalized it.
He told MSNBC during the taping of a town hallstyle event in Wisconsin that abortions should be
See TRUMP, Page 2A

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